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Oh boy. Today was a day of overwhelm for me. I haven't experienced that level of overwhelm for a loooong time. Since I had no clients booked in today, I had planned to write my blog post, and do some planning for my upcoming Eating Mindfully course in the morning. In the afternoon I'd planned...

It's not so much that I think 'positive' thinking is a bad thing - it's not destructive or harmful in any way - but I do wonder sometimes how useful it is. If you're believing you're useless and pathetic at say controlling your eating, or that you're an utter failure because you've just finished...

I've written before about 'feeling fat' - if you haven't read that yet and you're interested, it's here. In that post I discussed the idea that 'feeling fat' isn't actually a feeling that you can feel in your body, but that rather, it's a state of mind which encapsulates a number of beliefs about...

The brain 'sees' in images Did you know that? Let's do a little experiment: if I say to you 'don't think about salted caramel ice cream,' what happens? You think about salted caramel ice cream, don't you?! Because there isn't an image for 'don't.' This was a revolutionary discovery for me when...

Last week I wrote a blog called Lessons from a leaf on how to make it easier. While many of my readers found it helpful, there were some who struggled with it - in particular with one statement. I said, 'it's up to you to make it as easy or as hard as you want it to be.' This made it easy for some...