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Wellness Tool: Playfulness is Self-care
You have probably heard that play is important. Truthfully playfulness IS self-care. Engaging in play and fun activities are necessary for your overall mental and physical wellbeing. Not only will it help to reduce stress levels, but it can also improve the quality of...
SummerSoul – The Time to Refocus on You and Your Needs
I’m calling this season SummerSoul, because I want to be more soulful this summer. A SummerSoul means you are refocusing on yourself and your needs and what makes you fully happy. Summertime is often thought of as a carefree and relaxed season, but for many of us, it...
Summer Fun Is Self-Care
I am embracing the idea that summer fun IS self-care. This week is the week of the Summer Solstice (longest day of the year) and I performed my annual ritual of filling out my summer bucket list. I started this years ago and have talked about it previously on my...
Breaking the Nighttime Emotional Eating Cycle
Do you find yourself overeating (aka emotional eating) snacks and sweets in the evening? Does stress or anxiety make you crave comfort food at night? Well, you’re not alone. Many people struggle with nighttime emotional eating, and it can sabotage how you feel about...
Stop Emotional Eating
What do you need most to stop emotional eating? I get asked this a lot. Do you know that you unknowingly sabotage yourself with food? You engage in behaviors that lead you to overeat! Emotional eating can be challenging to stop, but there are several things you can do...
Anti-Diet Revolution
Having an Anti-Diet Revolution is a pretty bold statement and desire. I have been on a mission to help people make peace with food and their bodies for years. I use intuitive eating as the framework to guide my clients to success. There is this societal norm that we...
End Dieting as a New Year’s Resolution
It is time to end dieting as a New Year's Resolution. I know that contradicts what you normally hear this time of year. We have bought into the idea that we need to diet (restrict) come the first of the year. Start dieting and exercise are the top 2 resolutions AND...
Thrive this holiday season
Surviving seems to be the goal over the holidays. Seeing if we can just make it through the holidays and get to the end is the goal. Getting to the place of thriving over the holidays can seem unattainable. Thriving can seem unreachable, because of all we have come to...
5 Tips to Avoid Stress over the Holidays
If you look anywhere on the internet you will hear about the stress of the holidays. I wondered what you are think about stress over the holidays, so I asked. I ran a survey asking: Do you need strategies to support you with food and all the overwhelm this...
The Fear of Halloween Candy is Real
I have many memories of struggling with food over the holidays. When I was single, I feared having food (specifically candy) in the house. At Halloween time I would buy a bag of candy my thought was to use it on Halloween, but that never happened. I always ate it. It...
Can you have peace with food this holiday season?
Do you find you are already thinking about candy? It is front and center in the grocery stores. I have already heard stories of people buying candy in September and eating all of it. This is your opportunity to look at this holiday season, which I lovingly call the...
Solutions to End Emotional Eating
Emotional eating is complicated. The diet industry would have you think that there a simple AND QUICK answer: dieting. If dieting would have worked people would not have to continue to look for the next best diet. I get a lot of questions about emotional eating and...
