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You Can Gain More By Consuming Less

Aug 30 2017

You Can Gain More By Consuming Less

When I started on my journey of health it started out with physical health, therefore I consumed information on nutrition and exercise. Then I began to focus more on hormonal health and consumed information again on nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress reduction and all things that support hormonal health. When I focused on my digestion, I did the same. Then I started to focus on my mental, emotion and spiritual health and again consumed all the information I could get my hands on in the form of podcasts, books, blogs, etc. Read More

Are You Confused About What Real Self-Love Is?

Aug 12 2017

Are You Confused About What Real Self-Love Is?

Self-love is a hot topic these days and for good reason! The problem is, I’m noticing some confusion over what self-love really is. I recently had someone contact me asking me if I was interested in joining their self love challenge. This person went on to explain that the self-love challenge included workouts, a super flexible meal plan with portion control containers, superfoods meal replacement shake, as well as support and accountability. This actually kind of irritated me at first. Read More

I’m An Ambassador For The My Empowered Body Campaign!

Jul 29 2017

I'm An Ambassador For The Empowered Body Campaign

I am excited to be joining my Instagram friend Deanne Vincent as an ambassador for her My Empowered Body Campaign. She says that My Empowered Body is a movement of women who are owning their body story and reclaiming their power. Can I get a hell yes!!! When she asked me I jumped at the chance to participate. Read More

Are You A Self-Sacrificer?

Jul 22 2017

Are You A Self-Sacrificer?

You may think that’s a funny question, but self-sacrificing, also known as people pleasing is contributing to your struggle with food. The more I dig into the inner work for myself, the more I can see how much of a people pleaser I’ve been over the years. I can also see how much this has truly affected me in a negative way. It’s caused me to hold onto negative energy for years, which for a long time has been the perfect opportunity to numb with food. Read More

How To Actually Practice Feeling Your Emotions

Jul 09 2017

How To Actually Practice Feeling Your Emotions

You might have heard that it’s important to feel your emotions and that you shouldn’t stuff them down. That doing so can contribute to using food as a coping mechanism (a.k.a. Binge eating). I say this all the time and it’s all good and dandy in theory, but maybe you’ve realized you have no clue how to actually feel your emotions or where to start. My intention with this post is to give you some guidance in where to start and take some of the pressure off. I mean, you’ve likely been stuffing your emotions down for years, so you’re not going to immediately be able to feel them overnight. Read More

Why I Think You Should Feed Your Inner Child Ice Cream

Jul 02 2017

Why I Think You Should Feed Your Inner Child Ice Cream

I talk a lot about intuitive eating and listening to our bodies when it comes to food. As you know I am not big on labelling the way we eat or creating rules and restrictions around our diets. I have addressed the fact that when we release control it doesn’t mean we will eat all the things, all the time. When we truly listen to our body and not our mind, we will more often than not reach for whole foods. Our bodies want to be healthy and feel good, but sometimes we get a craving for something like ice cream of fries, which I think we should feed our inner child. Read More

Are You In Tune With Your Hunger Signals?

Jun 23 2017

Are You In Tune With Your Hunger Signals?

Recently I started bringing more awareness to my hunger signals and realized I have some work to do here. I’m currently taking the Hungry For Happiness Certification, which will certify me as an Intuitive Eating and Body Freedom Coach. In our first lesson we talked about physical hunger versus emotional hunger and whether or not we feel safe in our physical hunger. I quickly noticed that I don’t always feel physical hunger in my stomach, so I wanted to share more about hunger and intuitive eating in this post. Read More

The Most Important Tool You Have Is Your Breath

Jun 11 2017

The Most Important Tool You Have Is Your Breath

One of my many favourite topics in yoga teacher training was on the breath. Our breath is the gateway to our parasympathetic nervous system, which can literally calm the stress response system. The other benefit is that it takes mindfulness to focus on our breath so will naturally increase our awareness. Both of these reasons are incredibly helpful when we are feeling disconnected and ready to reach for food. Read More

How Lack Of Presence In Your Life Can Manifest As Binge Eating

May 21 2017

How Lack Of Presence In Your Life Can Manifest As Binge Eating

It’s common to think that you just don’t have willpower around food. It’s common to label some foods as good and others as bad. It’s common to try to think your way out of binge eating and compulsive overeating with more rules, restrictions and plans. Just because something is common, doesn’t mean it’s normal or healthy. When you stop looking for that external fix and start looking under the food and doing the internal work you discover many things. A recent discovery I had is that binge eating was a symptom of not taking up space in other areas of my life. Binge eating manifested as a way to have presence, as a way to be seen. Read More

4 Reasons To Overcome The Guilt Of Taking Time For Self-Care

May 13 2017

4 Reasons To Overcome The Guilt Of Taking Time For Self-Care

We hear a lot about self-care these days and for good reason. The way people tend to live their lives adds up stress upon stress. The impacts of stress on our health are far reaching and can affect everything from our digestion, blood sugar balance, moods, sleep, and sex drive. Stress is sensed in our brain in the hypothalamus which signals our pituitary gland that in return finally signals our adrenal glands to secrete stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. Read More

Empowering Women To Ditch The Diet-Binge Cycle And Fall In Love With Their Bodies And Life, By Changing Their Rigid Thinking And Awareness Around Food.