When embarking on the path from diets and rules to Intuitive and Mindful Eating, you are essentially learning how to trust yourself to make decisions in your best interest. I’ve talked before about how strongly I believe in our ability to choose and that there is...
I want to share with you something that came out of a client visit a few days ago. Obviously for confidentiality reasons I won’t share personal or detailed information about her case, but I do want to share how we made sense of what she was feeling at the time. I...
I consider myself a recovering perfectionist. It may be easier for me to say I’m recovering from anxiety, obsessive compulsive tendencies or Orthorexia, which is true, but that wouldn’t really give you the true picture. Those issues were just symptoms of the...
When you want to make a change, it’s wise to identify what barriers might stand in your way. This would be true for starting a new business, moving, changing sleep patterns, buying a house, starting a family…the list is endless. It’s also most definitely applicable...
I bet you have seen this before. It’s Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and I feel really helps us understand why eating concerns, worries, frustrations and anxieties can feel all-consuming. According to this theory, when your basic need for food, eating and...
I co-taught a Q&A session recently. It was a good experience for me for a lot of reasons, and I’ve reflected a lot on it since. The type of questions being asked had a sense of desperation behind them, especially as the subject matter turned to weight. As I...
