Welcome to my blog
If Your Parents Tried to Fix Your Overeating
It was damaging if your parent tried to fix your overeating or criticized your eating or weight, without self-reflecting on what ways they may have been creating the problem in you.
Healing Compulsive Eating Can Be Magical
On one hand, we tend to underestimate how much deep, emotional work is required to heal food addiction. On the other hand, we also underestimate the amazing changes that are possible in healing food addiction.
What Practices Help to Heal Overeating?
Often people ask me, "Is it the journaling that heals overeating? Does meditation heal it? Do I just read these books and watch these videos and that will help to change it?"
Why I’m Still Vegan
I believe that the human body is meant to be vegan, and is meant to easily thrive being vegan. I have also come to believe that the fears and beliefs we have about our bodies and about nutrition, directly impact our body's response to a vegan diet.
Nutritional Strategies to Combat Cravings
While our junk food cravings are mostly caused by emotional suppression and emotional-related causes, there are physical habits that affect our physical cravings. Here are four tips to combat physical cravings.
How to Incorporate More Vegan Meals into Your Diet
Would you like to incorporate more vegan meals into your diet? You may have a long-term goal to be vegan, or you may not. Even if you don’t want to go all vegan at this stage, more vegan meals in your diet will absolutely support your long-term health.
Binge Eating and the All-Or-Nothing Mentality
Have you ever had that voice that says, “Well, I messed up breakfast and had something really unhealthy, so now there’s no point in healthy eating for the rest of the day.”?
When Should You Drink Green Juice?
What is the best time of day to drink green juice? In this blog I answer this question and provide three options for good times during the day to drink veggie juice.
Being Kind to Yourself Won’t Result in Apathy
Being kinder to yourself about your eating will not result in apathy. True self-love does not create overindulgence, but rather healthy habits motivated by care.
Overeating and Your Parents’ Attitudes to Emotion
What were the messages you received, and how are those messages dictating your use of food to deny and suppress emotions?
Binge Eating and Feeling Free
Is your binge eating an attempt to experience freedom and exert choice? Are you trying to prove that you are free to do what you want, how you want, when you want?
Protein Oatmeal Recipe for Fitness
Here is a vegan protein oatmeal recipe for you! I’m back to the gym and weight lifting. It’s psychologically more challenging than I thought to have faith if I eat more I can build muscle.
Have Compassion for the Child You Were
Have compassion for the child you were, who knew no other way to cope than with food. Have you had overeating issues most of your life, starting when you were a child? It is vital to have compassion for the fact that you overate that young.
How I’m Learning Emotional Messiness
To heal compulsive eating, I’ve had to open up to being emotionally messy. This is something I’m still working on. I grew up, as many of us did, in a family that valued keeping it all
”together”.
Punching Pillows Will Stop You Eating Donuts
Yes, I am saying that punching pillows can help you to stop overeating donuts! Emotionally expressing and physically experiencing your emotions has an immediate and long-term positive effect on healing overeating.
A Spring Juice Recipe
Here is a delicious juice recipe for you! Bonus points if you find a flowering tree shedding its blossoms and you bask in its dappled splendor as you drink your liquid sunshine.
How Food Addiction Heals
When you start to emotionally work through the root cause issues that cause it, your overall compulsive behavior will improve, maybe at first by just five percent. Five percent becomes twenty and then eighty percent healed.
My Mom and Women’s Bodies
When I was a kid and teen, my mom loved to watch all of the beauty pageants: Miss America, Miss Universe, all the big ones. During these shows, my mom would comment her opinions on the contestants' appearance, which was often criticism.
Your Compulsive Eating Always Makes Sense
We feel confused as to why we do what we do with food. We feel like there are no real reasons and maybe we’re just broken. But every form of your compulsive eating — every single time — has an explanation.
The Real You Has No Eating Issues
Overeating and food addiction are in no way related to your personality or your nature or your real self as it was created to be. Overeating can be healed and we can return to the person we were created to be, who is a person without any food issues.