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When I Looked Up “Hunger” in the Dictionary
When I was a teenager, I looked up the word "hunger" in a dictionary. I had realized that I wasn't sure I ever let myself get hungry, and I was hoping the dictionary might hold a description of what it felt like.
If You Weren’t Abused, but You Still Overeat
Most of the clients I work with in healing overeating did not have overt abuse in their family. We often assume that it is only people who what we consider significant trauma who have an understandable explanation for their compulsive eating.
Negative Body Image Can Create Overeating
Some of us have more body image issues than others, and indeed there are many people for whom body image issues are not among the main causes of their stuff with food. However, there are others for whom body image issues are the primary cause.
Food Addiction isn’t a Disease, it’s a Trauma Response
Many programs and "experts" teach people their overeating cannot be fully and permanently healed, but rather that they will always have it and the best they can hope for is to live with their addiction but manage it so it doesn't take over their lives. This is a false belief.
When My Dad First Complimented Me, I Was Anorexic
The first time my dad complimented me on my body was when I had become anorexic as a teenager.
Healing Overeating and Why You Won’t Need Techniques
You can heal overeating so significantly that you don’t need any practices or techniques to control it. Having to employ lots of techniques to avoid overeating is not freedom with food.
Overeating and Judgement of Our Emotions
Our overeating shows us a truth: that we judge and are afraid of our emotions. Every one of us that has any level of compulsive eating can benefit from looking at the issues of judgment of our emotions and also fear of them.
Using Food to Swallow What You Want to Say
How are you using food to literally swallow what you want to say to someone? We often use food to avoid being truthful with others about how we really feel.
Kid’s Aren’t Naturally Drawn to Junk Food
As a culture, we have a belief that left to their own devices, kids will only want junk food, will never want healthy food, cannot self-regulate and cannot be trusted. This is false!
Healing Binge Eating and Becoming Emotionally Softer
Binge eating is all about hardness towards your feelings. Healing binge eating is all about softness towards your feelings. It's time to soften, to breathe, and to allow your feelings.
Are You Overfeeding Your Starving Soul?
Your stomach may be full — way too full — but your soul might be starving. Compulsive eating is all about what is happening in your soul.
Your Body Image Inner Critic Comes From Your Parents
As adults, our inner critic is made up of the way our parents talked to themselves about their own eating and bodies, as well as the way they felt about ours. What does your self-talk surrounding your eating and your body look like?
Can Healthy Eating Help with Your Emotions?
When you eat a healthy, light, unprocessed plant-based diet, it is easier to get into repressed emotions. Your body won't be gummed up and toxic and you'll feel more sensitive to your feelings. A heavy, processed diet numbs us out to emotion.
Feeling Emotions is a Productive Use of Time
Discovering and allowing ourselves to feel all our feelings is a way of living which results in healing compulsive eating. This means that we can achieve an end to dieting, permanent maintenance of a healthy weight, and solve nutritionally-related health problems.
Healing Compulsive Eating: Never Diet Again
When you heal the root causes of compulsive eating, you’ll never need to go on a diet again! Continually dieting is exhausting. Planning the next one, falling off the wagon or being successful, slipping back to old ways, and then trying the next one.
New Program: 10-day Juice Feast for Healing Overeating
I'm offering a new program, which is a 1-1 coaching program, where I coach you through a 10-day Juice Feast. The unique thing about this program (which is not something I'm aware of being offered anywhere else), is that while you're on the cleanse, we will focus on healing overeating.
How Your Mother’s Body Image Affects Yours
When it comes to healing body image issues, it is important for us to understand where our body image problems come from. But what if your parents never said anything of the like, and what if they didn't criticize others' bodies either?
Why Willpower Won’t Solve Overeating
It is impossible to will yourself to stop overeating, so stop beating yourself up when you can’t do that. You’ll stop overeating when you work through the emotional root causes.
The Origins of Overeating Aren’t Your Fault
You had no choice but to develop compulsions with food. The origins of your food addictions are not your fault. When you were very little, your environment didn't feel good for you in some way. That wasn't your fault.
Religion and Healing Compulsive Eating
In order to heal compulsive eating, you may need to question the tenets of your religion or spiritual tradition. The truth is, many spiritual traditions and religions have teachings that are actually very damaging for healing food addiction.