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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...
Stop Struggling with Candy: Intuitive Eating Tips for the Holiday Season
I have so many memories of struggling with candy around the holidays. When I was single, I feared having candy in the house. Every Halloween, I’d buy a bag of candy “for the trick-or-treaters,” but that was never how it went. I’d end up eating it all (every piece)...
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...
Don’t weight: Love Yourself Now
I often hear people say that all they want to do is lose weight and how different their life would be when they do lose that weight. I find people are then focused on the future and what will be rather than what is. They will call themselves names or let others column...
Self-Esteem Is Not Found In Weight Loss
It is commonly thought that self-esteem increases when we lose weight. Yes, you can lose weight and not feel better about yourself. Is your weight your barometer about how you feel about yourself? I know there is this euphoria that can come when you lose weight. AND I...
Intuitive Eating and the Satisfaction Factor
Do you have Food Satisfaction after you eat? Whether you are satisfied or not is very personal and individual: each person is different and has different requirements. We have often learned to deny our satisfaction, especially when we have been following the diet...
Fear of Speaking
You would think since I am a public speaker AND a podcaster, speaking in public would not be a fear of mine. But it is! I speak all the time with people one to one, in small to large groups, but speaking on stage can be tough. I recently traveled by plane from...
Summer Bucket List: Self-Care
When my daughter was in preschool, she came home with a paper listing 100 items for a “Summer Bucket List." The paper proclaimed it had 100 fun things to do before summer kicks the bucket. This list had many items on it that were associated with summer: Swim until...
