Helpful Blogs

You are sitting at a table you have sat at a thousand times. Maybe it is Sunday lunch at your parents'. Maybe it is a birthday dinner at a restaurant where everyone is ordering and comparing. Maybe it is just a Tuesday with colleagues in the work kitchen, someone sighing loudly about their meal deal,...

Do you ever try to distract yourself from binge eating or emotional overeating? I've read a lot of blogs and articles on the internet about emotional eating and how to overcome it. I'm so pleased to see that there are many helpful resources available to people – I wish that had been the case when...

There’s a new question following women around. It isn’t always spoken out loud. Sometimes it’s just a look. But if you’ve been on the receiving end of it, you know exactly what it means. A client told me recently that she’d been out for dinner with a group of friends. Someone mentioned they’d...

“You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.” – Henri Nouwen Most women I work with have spent years - sometimes decades - treating their body as the source of the problem. Too big. Too undisciplined. Too much. The body is what needs to...

Moving into a new place is odd. You know it's home now, but it doesn't feel like it yet. You wake in the night needing the bathroom and walk straight into the wall, because your body still thinks it's in the old house. You lie there for a moment not quite knowing where you are. You reach for the lamp...