The season is upon us, and I always have mixed feelings about the holidays and gift buying. I think it’s the urgency to get the right thing, the best thing, the popular/trendy “most wanted” thing. It’s a lot of pressure. For the last several years, I’ve chosen not to get on board with the seasonal…
It starts with Halloween, doesn’t it? The sway and bend to only-this-time-of-the-year treats? Have you noticed that all things pumpkin spice show up earlier and earlier every year? Now, I have a thought: What if we could change the mindset on these treats from a “fixed mindset” to a “growth mindset”? You may or may…
[av_one_full first] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] What kind of change comes from hating yourself? What at first can seem like good motivation, can soon spin off into a diatribe of self-deprecation–a spiral of good-bad, love-hate inner muddling. Consider the diet. No one starts a diet thinking: “Everything is going so well! Wow, am I looking…
With the ringing in of the New Year, many people are also reigning in the eating. Going on a diet in January is de rigeur. Did you know that dieting is a $60 billion industry? If dieting really worked, why are they making so much moolah? The fact is that dieting absolutely does not work….
[av_one_full first] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] What is it that keeps you from feeling beautiful? What is it that makes you feel beautiful? What is beauty, exactly? When you see the face of someone you love, how do you feel inside? When you admire a work of art or a piece of music, how do…
I want to talk to you about cellulite. Do you have it, like I do? How do you feel about it? When’s the last time you thought about it? Last summer when you considered putting your bathing suit on and didn’t? This morning when you were looking in the full length mirror? Never? That would…
When I was going through a time of extreme anxiety in my life, I was taught how to breathe. I mean really breathe. Deep belly breathing, also known as diaphragmatic breathing. At that time in my life, I would have tried anything to ease my panic attacks and my general anxiety that had adrenalin coursing…
Remember that cereal commercial about pinching an inch? It was in the 80’s, so I’m dating myself, but basically, the message was if you can pinch an inch on your waist then you might need to think about losing some weight. And of course the cereal would help you do that. Just one of…
BE brave. Stay with the pain. The ambiguous pain. I can’t even name it. I can’t speak of it. And it’s shameful. I want to eat, but I’m not hungry. My body is not hungry, at least. I had dinner and I was full. I was hungry, and then I was full. And I…
Ok, that sounds totally weird, but let me explain. The other day I was talking to my mother on the phone and I reached for a piece of chocolate. I opened up the sweet little bite of goodness in shiny foil and popped it into my mouth. The conversation with mom continued. Now, my mom…