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Heart Thoughts: When Food is Love

Embrace Self-Love What if you loved yourself a little more each day? What if you treated yourself the way you’d treat your best friend?...

Say Yes to Emotional Self-Care and No to Dieting.

How to start the new year right - without the painful and short-lived promise: "My diet starts on Monday!" Below I am listing a few...

Say Good-Bye to Dieting - Find Peace with Food

Dear Reader, If you were drawn to this post, I assume that you are ready to say good-bye to dieting and restrictive calorie counting. You...

How to Manage Holiday Weight Gain

If you (like many) have been putting on a few extra pounds over the holidays, don’t be hard on yourself. In this blog post I’d like to...

How to Address Weight Gain - Gently and Mindfully

If you have coped by eating too much or drinking too much, have compassion for yourself and set an intention to turn things around....

Emotional Eating & The Power of Ritual

Eating for comfort and mood management is a powerful ritual. It may have served its purpose over a thousand times throughout a person’s...

Rewrite Your Weight Loss Story - Give It a Happy Ending

If you have been on the diet roller coaster your whole life - this blog post is for you. If you have been exposed to "toxic diet culture"...

Emotions and Food: Why We Eat Is as Important as What We Eat

Why do we eat when we are not hungry? Using food to feel better is very common, however, it causes unwanted weight gain, feelings of...

On a Weight Loss Journey? What's In Your Fridge?

I typically blog about the emotional eating aspect of weight regulation. Today I'd like to offer some practical tips that have helped...

When Diets Fail - Ask Yourself Two Fundamental Questions

As a counselor who specializes in mindful weight loss and emotional eating I have come to a deep understanding of the reasons why diets...

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