Becoming a Peaceful Eater:

Lessons from a leaf on how to make it easier

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240"] Photo by fauxto_digit [/caption] I wish I could promise you that it's easy to eat when you're hungry and stop when you're satisfied. I wish I could tell you giving yourself true unconditional permission to eat whatever you want is easy peasy. I wish I...

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Becoming a Peaceful Eater:

Lessons from a dog

  I used to think our dog Queenie had food issues, so I decided to observe her closely to see if I could learn something from her behaviour. I thought I'd share it with you (especially because she's the cutest dog on the planet and I'm besotted with her). These are her behaviours: ...

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Becoming a Peaceful Eater:

Do you want to be fearlessly (but gently) challenged?

Yesterday I was 'talking' (text-typing) to a very dear friend on Skype. Sometimes we have very penetrating conversations, typing back and forth about our lives. We really understand each other - and sometimes the depth of what we're able to communicate and support each other with, in a relatively...

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Becoming a Peaceful Eater:

What on earth is all this business about ‘surrender’???

Hi  I've been speaking about surrender for a while now - and it dawned on me that for some, I could be speaking gobbledigook - so I thought I would at least attempt to clarify what I mean by it. To start myself off, I referred to one of my all time favourite publications: no, it's not by Thich...

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Becoming a Peaceful Eater:

When struggle is valuable – lessons from my retreat

Hello! I'm back from a nourishing and very growthful week away. It was growthful for me, not only because I spent 5 days on a meditation retreat in the Swiss Alps with my Teacher and 19 other amazing beings, but also because we left our 2 teenage daughters on their own at home, for the first time....

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