Last week, I had a lovely dinner and conversation with a new friend who shared the moving story of her recovery from substance use. After starting my intuitive eating journey, I thought of myself as going through the recovery process of a “food user.” So, I could relate to and empathize with her history of [...]

Have you been struck by a sweet obsession lately? The drive to eat sweets and to eat them until they are gone is an all to common experience. The process goes a little something like this; you’re at the grocery store, you see the most delectable chocolate cake ever. You say to yourself “Hmmm…I think [...]

When I lost 80 lbs the first time, I was a young 18 year old with a desire to show off my new body and to make those boys, who had always ignored my overweight self take notice! For years, at the start of each summer, I fantasized about shedding the excess weight that I [...]

Has the scale ever taken on magical properties in your life? Did it somehow become endowed with the power to change your mood as its dial finally settled? And, have you noticed how the scale simply tells you information that you already intuitively know!? For me, the act of weighing ourselves, is similar to those [...]

A holiday is a dieter’s get out of jail free card. On these significant days, many of us feel like it’s “ok” to give ourselves permission to eat anything that we want.  The food, itself, tends to have a special significance as well because we often reserve certain dishes only for specific holidays! Before I [...]

You, like me, probably have a history with the Gym…that place where people go to “feel the burn,” lose weight, get fit, tone their bodies, and feel a bit smug. Over the past 3.5 years of practicing intuitive eating, I believed that I would never go to a gym again. To my surprise, I signed [...]

A few days ago, I hiccuped as I was swallowing a portion of my early afternoon meal (i.e., lunch). I hiccuped while eating some spicy Thai panang curry chicken, mind you! The burning sensation, from the combination of hiccuping and swallowing, was enough to keep me coughing for a good minute or two. Needless to [...]

Have you ever considered how odd it is that we use an expression like “I’ve fallen off the wagon” when we talk about our relationship with eating? People are constantly falling off of wagons when it comes to dieting. Learning to listen to your body through eating intuitively is the path for kicking that wagon [...]

A couple of months ago, I started thinking about adding strength training to my movement practice. I try to give time to moving my body joyfully everyday.  Honestly, I missed moving my body more days than I would have liked during December. At the same time, I probably moved my body more this December than [...]

With only one day left of 2010, I’ve been reflecting on this year with gratitude as I begin my 4th year of intuitive eating! Honestly, when I imagine my life without intuitive eating, I know that I would still be trapped in the gigantic maze of eating confusion that plagues so many of us. The [...]