Biology Biological hunger is felt physically. Aside from hunger pains in our bellies, several different physical cues can tell you you’re experiencing hunger. For instance, headaches, feeling spaced out or dizzy, shaky, irritable, and thinking about eating or food can indicate that you’re experiencing biological hunger. If we’ve dieted for years, we may have… More »
What is Intuitive Eating? The Key To Stop Dieting For Good
The Key To Stop Dieting For Good Intuitive Eating is a self-care eating style that encourages a healthy attitude toward food and body image. Eating should be an intuitive process, but it isn’t for many people. Trusting so-called experts about what, when, and how much to eat steers you away from trusting your body’s internal… More »
Do You Feel Uncomfortable In Your Body?
Do you feel uncomfortable in your body? Do you feel self-conscious about your size? Unfortunately, the majority of people these days suffer from body-image dissatisfaction. All too often, we give in to diet culture. We lose weight and gain it back, fee like we’ve failed, feel guilt and despair and then repeat the cycle again.… More »
Eating Is Self-care
It took me years to get over the unhealthy eating patterns. I would skip meals saying I was too busy to eat. I cut food-groups from my diet to adopt a “healthy lifestyle” when, in fact, I was ruining my hormonal health. All of this, coupled with constant negative self-talk, put a strain on my… More »
Loving Your Body Versus Accepting Your Body
After years of feeling shame about your body, believing you must love it can lead to frustration. Loving your entire body is a daunting task. Believe me, I know that. When I was very young, a relative of mine made a comment about my thighs. Although I was only a little girl, my conclusion was… More »
Improving Our Beliefs And Creating Body Confidence
Fat is not a feeling. Changing the language we use to describe our emotions is an essential step toward improving our beliefs and creating body confidence. Unfortunately, due to the societal stereotypes with help from the diet and fitness industries, the word “fat” has become associated with lazy, unhealthy, unsuccessful, shame and fear. Conversely, success,… More »
Are you feeling disappointed?
Disappointment in life is inevitable. Sometimes we get our hopes up, but then we don’t get what we want. Often we put a lot of time or energy into something, and things don’t’ turn out as we would have liked. When this happens, our minds can go right to playing that negative tape we may… More »
Building Body Confidence: EFT Tapping
If you want to release bad habits or build body confidence and let go of destructive eating behaviours, EFT Tapping can help. When your eating behaviours first developed, they served you in some way. Maybe to feel calm, safe, or avoid the pain of feeling difficult emotions. You did the best you could at the… More »
EFT Tapping for the fear of not being “good enough”
Today we are tapping on the feeling of not being “good enough.” The fear that you’re not good enough can really hold you back from all you want to be, do, and have in life. Someone in your life might have told you or suggested that you’re not as worthy or deserving as others…and maybe… More »
EFT Tapping: The Ho’oponopono Healing Through Forgiveness
Ho’oponopono is an ancient Hawaiian practice of healing through forgiveness. Ho’o means ‘to make, ‘ and pono ‘right‘ – the double use of pono means with both yourself and others. Practicing this allows you to let go of past issues and negative emotions like anger & resentment. Focus on a specific person (even yourself) or a… More »
