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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

5 Ways Healing Your Relationship With Food Can Improve Your Relationships With People

Apr 29 2017

5 Ways Healing Your Relationship With Food Can Improve Your Relationship With People

By now I’m sure you understand that food isn’t your problem and that the root cause of binge eating runs much deeper. When you do the inner healing work like looking at your belief systems that are creating distorted thoughts that keep triggering you, inner child work, mindfulness to increase your awareness, and practices to get you back in touch with trusting your body and intuition, you can’t not look at all the other areas of your life. Relationships are a big area of our lives and are definitely affected by our internal environment. Read More

Can You Be Body Positive And Still Want To Lose Weight?

Apr 22 2017

Can You Be Body Positive And Still Want To Lose Weight?

I’ve noticed some confusion around wanting to be body positive and love your body, while still wanting to lose weight. Even talk about wanting to nourish your body and eat in a way that supports your health can sometimes make those, who follow others in the body positive, anti-diet community, feel wrong. I know initially I almost felt guilty for caring about my health and I’ve developed some thoughts on this that I want to share in this post today. Read More

The Biggest Mistake You’re Making That’s Keeping You Stuck

Apr 14 2017

The Biggest Mistake Your're Making That's Keeping You Stuck

Is your mindset around food and your body keeping you a prisoner in your own life? Do you feel stuck on something that seems so superficial and trivial, yet don’t know how to break free? I know you want more for your life. I know you want to experience freedom, peace and joy in your heart. You are not broken my friend. You’ve just been born into belief systems that conform to diet culture and societal ideals. You haven’t been taught how to feel your emotions or observe your thoughts, let alone to question their validity. There is another way to live and you know this deep in your soul, but there’s a mistake you’re making that’s keeping you stuck. Read More

6 Signs You Don’t Have A Healthy Relationship With Food

Apr 07 2017

6 Signs You Don't Have A Healthy Relationship With Food

I didn’t know I had an unhealthy relationship with food for quite some time. I followed what I read in the media and just thought I had trouble with willpower. Things got worse and worse and I didn’t realize that I actually had a very unhealthy relationship with food. When I did realize this, this is when I finally started looking for help. My intention with this post is to help those of you that do have an unhealthy relationship with food but have yet to seek help, feel inspired to do so. 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.