A Webinar for Curbing Food Cravings, Negative Body Image, and Anchoring into Mindful Eating If you are new to recovery or know you need to be in recovery from using food as a numbing agent, I want to extend a big invitation to you. I want to offer you an opportunity to plug-in and…
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Why Shame is the Name of the Game in Recovery
An interview with Janice Gaunt, Author of The Shame Game. The Food Fight, click here and listen now!! Listen and subscribe on: Soundcloud In this episode, you’ll hear more about: Why Shame is the baseline that we must acknowledge in recovery What the Shame Core is Why acknowledging shame is so difficult and why some…
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Eating Disorder
Self-Esteem and Eating Disorder Recovery: A Daily Practice to Ignite Your Inner Flame
The Download The moment my children were born there was a burst of love in my being that I had never experienced before. It was like a light went around the earth and the heavens and back again spanning the entirety of my life cycle imploding in my heart. It brought me to tears,…
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What I Wish I Knew About Orthorexia and 30-Day Challenges
As a specialist in eating disorders, I zero in on food-related issues with clients. As a result, I am pretty self-aware when it comes to my eating habits and my self-talk as it relates to my body. As I inventory the ways I relate(d) to food, the topic of orthorexia allowed for some serious self-reflection;…
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Intuitive Eating in Eating Disorder Recovery: Letting your Mindfulness Practice be Your Guide
Being mindful and connecting to your intuitive self is a daily aim for eating disorder recovery. Eating mindfully and intuitive eating allows you to stay aligned with viewing food as fuel and a source of pleasure and nourishment. The holidays provide an Ooey-gooey, Bitter-sweet opportunity for being in practice with mindfulness and your intuition….
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7 Questions to be Holiday Ready in Eating Disorder Recovery
If you have had struggles with food and are learning to live life differently— you are in recovery. There are stages to recovery. I am speaking to the action and maintenance phase of recovery where you are no longer cancelling plans or denying food is a trigger. This is about all-in, you GOT this holiday,…
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How to Redirect Emotional Food Cravings in 3 Steps and Improve your Intended Relationship with Food
Recovery is an Act of Remembering Who You Are on an Individual Soul Level This is one of my core messages when it comes to being in recovery. Most of us spend half of our lives downloading a message, the model of how to relate to ourselves and the outer world, and we spend the…
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5 Solutions to Stop the Restrict, Binge, and Repeat Cycle of Emotional Eating
Blackout Zone of Shame Driving home from work you find yourself mindlessly heading to what you have come to know as the blackout zone of shame. You can feel in your body the lurking urge to binge, even though you said it would be the last time, the last time. But… You didn’t eat breakfast…