Food For Thought: STOP Trying to “Love Your Body”
WHY KEEP MAKING THE SAME RESOLUTIONS YEAR AFTER YEAR? WATCH THE EPISODE BELOW Love cannot be compelled. Love cannot be coerced. So stop trying to “love your body. ” stop trying to love yourself. Instead – just stop hating yourself. Stop hating your body. Stop doing all of those millions of little things that you […]
Back to Basics with Happy Calories Don’t Count®
You will never be completely free from the anxiety of food, exercise and body drama – regardless of your current size or shape – as long as your efforts come from within the context of the fundamental base paradigm of the conventional, cultural “diet and exercise” model.
That model is transaction-based, sets up calories as a “currency of exchange” and suggests that you must pay a “price” to eat. The price? Exercise – or weight gain.
And while you are indeed responsible for what you eat and what you do for exercise, the fact that you are responsible for your choices and actions does not mean that you can therefore control the outcome – you cannot control your body through diet and exercise. That is a fallacy. That is the root of your food and body image struggles.
The “diet and exercise” model demands that you disconnect from the wisdom of your body to be “successful.” And it is this attempt to disconnect from your body that causes all of the pain and dysfunction.
By switching from the transaction-based model of “diet and exercise,” to the relationship-based model of Happy Calories Don’t Count® your pain and dysfunction around food and your body is healed – and you can finally create a body you love with sustainable results.
Listen to the full episode for my outline of the 5 Steps of the Happy Calories Don’t Count® Model.
Food For Thought: Your Body Has Its Own Point Of View
YOUR BODY IS A COMPLEX SYSTEM OF LIVING INTELLIGENCE WATCH THE EPISODE BELOW Your body is not a “caloric balance sheet” and your body is not an “algorithm. ” Your body is a complex system of living intelligence that has its own wisdom and its own point of view.
Food For Thought: No “Diet & Exercise” Resolution Needed
WHY KEEP MAKING THE SAME RESOLUTIONS YEAR AFTER YEAR? WATCH THE EPISODE BELOW Weight loss and fitness top the New Year’s Resolution list year after year after year. Why is that? Well I had heard once that resolution breaks down into “re-solution” resolve “re-solve” So you’re just solving the same darn problem over and over […]
Stop Resolving & Start Creating A Body You Love
What’s the point of losing weight or getting in shape (the top New Year’s resolutions) if you have to resolve to do it year after year?
The week between Christmas and New Year’s means that your social media (and all media) feeds are filling up with ads pitching “new” programs and apps to help you lose weight and get in shape in the coming year.
From diet apps to new fitness methods – psychology based or doctor supervised bots – NONE of these programs are ultimately effective because they are still fundamentally based within the “diet and exercise” model.
To truly create lasting change, you must shift underlying base paradigms. Regardless of which wellness approach you take, changing the based model from the transaction-based framework of “diet and exercise” to a relationship based perspective is critical.
The Fallacy of “Diet & Exercise” and Lettuce Burritos
My guest interview on Erin Keam’s podcast is live!! It’s such a great conversation!! We discuss the body shaming that exists within the body positivity movements, critical components for healing eating disorders, how to transform emotional eating – and best of all – I outline my signature 5-Step approach for creating a body AND life you love!
When It’s Time To Put On The “Big Girl Pants”
One of the basic, fundamental principles of psychology and personal growth is that no one can “make you feel bad” without your permission. Learning to embrace your personal power is a skill set worth pursuing. Furthermore, the skills and tools necessary to heal from pain and dysfunction around food, exercise, your body and your weight are the same skills and tools necessary to claim your power and freedom in the midst of the current social, political climate. By rejecting a position of “victim-hood,” you can find your center and your power to create a body – and also a life – you truly love.
Gratitude And Other Food For Thought
Gratitude is a concept that is thrown around a lot in the self-help and personal development communities. But what does it actually mean? How does one develop an “attitude of gratitude” when faced with challenging life situations?
One thing that is not helpful is to diminish the emotions and frustrations around the “problem.” Adopting the sound bite of personal and spiritual challenges being “First World Problems” does not help in healing and transforming the psychological and emotional perspectives revealed by the situations.
To say “you shouldn’t feel bad because other people have it worse” is as ridiculous as saying that “you shouldn’t feel happy or grateful because other people have it better.”
The fastest way to cultivate an experience of authentic gratitude in which your heart is filled with peace and joy and your “cup runneth over,” is to do the intensely personal work of personal transformation.
Allow yourself to be your authentic you. And from your authentic self, curate a relationship with your body. When you heal your relationship with your body – all of the problems and issues surrounding food, exercise and your weight are also healed.
Eat, Drink, Be Merry – And Fit Into Your Skinny Jeans
Gratitude is a concept that is thrown around a lot in the self-help and personal development communities. But what does it actually mean? How does one develop an “attitude of gratitude” when faced with challenging life situations?
One thing that is not helpful is to diminish the emotions and frustrations around the “problem.” Adopting the sound bite of personal and spiritual challenges being “First World Problems” does not help in healing and transforming the psychological and emotional perspectives revealed by the situations.
To say “you shouldn’t feel bad because other people have it worse” is as ridiculous as saying that “you shouldn’t feel happy or grateful because other people have it better.”
The fastest way to cultivate an experience of authentic gratitude in which your heart is filled with peace and joy and your “cup runneth over,” is to do the intensely personal work of personal transformation.
Allow yourself to be your authentic you. And from your authentic self, curate a relationship with your body. When you heal your relationship with your body – all of the problems and issues surrounding food, exercise and your weight are also healed.
Can You Really Use Law of Attraction To Lose Weight?
Gratitude is a concept that is thrown around a lot in the self-help and personal development communities. But what does it actually mean? How does one develop an “attitude of gratitude” when faced with challenging life situations?
One thing that is not helpful is to diminish the emotions and frustrations around the “problem.” Adopting the sound bite of personal and spiritual challenges being “First World Problems” does not help in healing and transforming the psychological and emotional perspectives revealed by the situations.
To say “you shouldn’t feel bad because other people have it worse” is as ridiculous as saying that “you shouldn’t feel happy or grateful because other people have it better.”
The fastest way to cultivate an experience of authentic gratitude in which your heart is filled with peace and joy and your “cup runneth over,” is to do the intensely personal work of personal transformation.
Allow yourself to be your authentic you. And from your authentic self, curate a relationship with your body. When you heal your relationship with your body – all of the problems and issues surrounding food, exercise and your weight are also healed.