What Do You Choose to Believe?
The other day a friend posted a video on Facebook. It’s the story of a disabled veteran named Arthur who transforms himself through a yoga practice. I’ve seen this particular video many times before,...
View ArticleDoes Intuitive Eating mean eating whatever and whenever you feel like it?...
The short answer is yes and no. With Intuitive Eating, you can absolutely eat whatever you want, whenever you want, but I’ve learned that as my relationship with my body and food evolves, “whatever”...
View ArticleSugar addiction, cravings, and the pursuit of “dietary correctness”
Recently I wrote a post entitled “The truth about sugar addiction” in which I likened the newfound certainty around the dangers of eating sugar to my own misguided (but never unsure) youth. Over the...
View Article“Please place your own oxygen mask on before helping others”
Have you ever heard this before? I guarantee you have if you’ve ever taken a flight anywhere in the US or abroad. The airlines are clear: if an emergency occurs, please make sure your own oxygen mask...
View ArticleWhat is real progress? What my nutrition practice taught me
Three years ago I launched Eat to Love. Much like my own understanding of meditation, mindfulness, and Intuitive Eating, my understanding of working with clients has deepened in surprising ways. It is...
View ArticleOn working with physical pain: The first and second dart
I couldn’t pick up my son on his first birthday. We were in Sicily celebrating with his grandparents and cousins, aunts and uncles. It was a joyous occasion in every way except for the stabbing pain...
View ArticleUnconditional permission to eat – confusing choosing not to eat with restriction
When people enter onto the Intuitive Eating path, one of the most important steps is to give themselves unconditional permission to eat. After years – sometimes decades – of deprivation, good and bad...
View ArticleMindful Eating Group with Alexis Conason, PhD
For some of us it starts with the jar of Halloween candy at home or in the office. For others it’s around the packed-to-capacity Thanksgiving table. Or maybe it’s just entering the month of December...
View ArticleFive Mindfulness Lessons Every Coach and Therapist Can Use
Within the first few nutrition therapy sessions with a new client, I inevitably ask her (or him) to do something that seems impossible: to stay in the icky, fearsome, claustrophobic space between...
View ArticleIntuitive Eating: It’s on the other side of your embarrassment
Giving up dieting is like walking into the ocean and beginning to swim, trusting that eventually you will get to another shore you can’t yet see. Intuitive Eating is that other shore and I assure you,...
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