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 […]
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 […]
Forget The Fear & Find Freedom From Food
Whether it is controlling your body and your weight through the cultural, conventional “diet and exercise” model or trying to use the Law of Attraction to manifest your dreams, what is your real motivation?
I submit that it is ultimately happiness. You only want whatever it you want because you think having it will make you happy. This is important because if the experience of creating – or maintaining – your desire is in anyway unhappy, you cannot achieve that which you ultimately desire.
Creating peace and happiness can be especially challenging when motivated by fear. Fear and trauma lead to a desire to control – control yourself, control others, control outcomes.
This episode illustrates how true the words of the wise Franklin D. Roosevelt really are: There Is Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself. By deconstructing spiritual and psychological principles relating to fear and manifestation, this episode offers a perspective to lead you out of fear and into creating peace and freedom and a body you love.
The Real Price of Happiness (It’s Not What the Self-Help World Tells You)
I was 45 minutes into a 90-minute commute for 12 miles when something unexpected washed over me — a sense of peace I hadn’t felt in years. That moment taught me something about happiness that none of the self-help work, therapy, or pillow-beating had managed to. Here’s what it was.
Why Accepting That Life Sometimes Sucks Is the Secret to Food Freedom
I’ve been bingeing The Vampire Diaries — and before you judge me, hear me out. A conversation between two immortal vampires accidentally said everything I’ve ever wanted to say about why fighting “what is” only creates more pain. Including with your body.
Why Controlling Your Body Will Never Make You Happy (And What Actually Does)
I binge-watched enough Netflix to notice a pattern — every show about power ends the same way. The characters who fight hardest to control their circumstances are the most miserable. Here’s why that’s exactly what’s happening with diet culture, and what personal empowerment actually looks like instead.
Hungry for Happiness: Why No Diet Will Ever Fill That Void
I first saw “Hungry for Happiness” on a tray liner at Arby’s. But it stopped me cold — because that phrase is actually the entire thesis behind everything I teach. Here’s what it means and why chasing the perfect body will never get you there.
Why Happiness Is the Real Source of Personal Power
Three friends, three completely different problems — divorce, financial crisis, a diet that wasn’t working. But they were all feeling exactly the same thing: powerless. Here’s what I think we get wrong about power, happiness, and why our circumstances don’t actually determine either one.