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How to break the habit of using food to regulate your emotions and overcome emotional eating

Emotional eating may seem like a difficult habit to break, but there are alternative practices that can help.

The Psychology of Eating: Understanding the Mind-Body Connection

Eating is one of the most psychologically driven activities we do multiple times a day. The psychology behind food and eating is a...

Anxiety and Emotional Eating

Emotional eating is a common phenomenon where individuals turn to food to cope with difficult emotions such as stress, anxiety, boredom,...

How to Stop Emotional Stress Eating

Who hasn't done it? Grab a cookie, a piece chocolate or dig into a bag of chips to cope with stress, anxiety or anxiousness? In my work...

When Food is Love - Exploring Emotional Eating

How to use self-compassion to heal your relationship with food.

How to Reverse Exposure to a "Toxic" Diet Culture

As a counselor who helps clients heal their relationship with food I come across their stories of growing up around critical family...

Dolce Far Niente - What We Can Learn From the Italians

"Dolce Far Niente" can be translated as: "Sweetness of Doing Nothing." Whenever I travel to Italy (my favorite country in Europe) I am...

Ready to feel lighter, not just physically but emotionally?

Lightness from within. "I feel so much lighter!" I often hear from clients who have been in my program for about three months. Our...

How to Find Food Freedom and End the Dieting Struggle.

Yes, it is possible to have a peaceful and relaxed relationship with food - even after many years or decades of dieting and weight...

End the Painful Yo-Yo Dieting Cycle ~ Find Peace with Food

“The problem of overweight and obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S. and globally, and the high prevalence is due in part...

A mindful approach to weight loss and emotional eating, using positive psychology & self-compassion principles *Promoting emotional self-care rather than restrictive dieting.*