Emotional Eating Solutions:

Do you eat your overwhelm?

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...

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Becoming a Peaceful Eater:

Planting roses & why ‘positive thinking’ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

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...

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Becoming a Peaceful Eater:

Do you think ‘I’m fat!’?

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...

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Becoming a Peaceful Eater:

How language can help or hinder your results

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...

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Becoming a Peaceful Eater:

Thoughts on thoughts, choices and leaves

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...

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