A theme on my IG Live last Thursday was dispelling the clean eating and living illusion. Clean eating and sacrificial health ideas in America like "no pain, no gain" or "nothing tastes as good as thin feels" are influenced by the idea of purity, as defined from a white Puritan, Christian ...
Gut Health: counter-intuitive food habits + emotional stress trumps a clean diet
On my IG Live last Thursday, my friend and host of the Microbiome Report podcast Andrea Wein joined me to talk gut health. The overall message, which I think is counter to mainstream marketing, is that gut health is found in basic nutrition habits, not probiotic supplements or "Prebiotic ...
How to skip “The Sugars” when tired (real life coaching example!)
We did my first ever "live coaching" on IG Live last Thursday with Victoria. We coached around the root cause of her turning to "The Sugars" (I love this description Victoria!) to numb out feeling tired and ideas on how to get the energy she needs. And then Katie and I discuss different treatment ...
Ask me anything
The one word I keep hearing from many of you is overwhelm (followed by grief). Between the ongoing pandemic, social media toxicity (although I'm finding the cancel culture and accountability debate interesting) and those of us in the U.S.A. on alert for more white supremacy domestic terrorism, ...
Well-Rounded Special Edition: Breaking Being All-or-Nothing
2020 cracked many cultural veneers, including our culture’s “all-or-nothing”, go big or go home myths. We were forced to get creative in our lives - for better, worse and TBD. We’re all in a “muddle” period, as we call it in Truce with Food. It’s when the old is breaking down and the new isn’t ...
Truce with Food Holiday Offer
2020 has been a year like no other. With so much collective trauma to process, the Truce with Food® methodology focused on post-traumatic growth, has become more relevant than ever. David Petersen, Google’s head of Leadership and Development, called the adult development foundation I use in Truce ...
Your Holiday Toolkit
As we head into the holidays with altered plans because of COVID and most likely a few relatives and friends you feel very isolated from because of their political beliefs, I’m offering a tool to help you feel deeply connected to the people you will be with, in person or virtually. Loneliness is ...
Truce with Food Election Anxiety Survival Guide
When I surveyed my Instagram community, 95% said they felt election anxiety. As the election results trickle in and most are projecting an election purgatory long after election night, here’s a guide to how I’m managing my election anxiety. To feel pragmatically inspired and understand more about ...
Managing Election Anxiety: Truce with Food guide
When I surveyed my Instagram community, 95% said they felt election anxiety. In lieu of Well-Rounded today, as the election results trickle in and most are projecting an election purgatory long after election night, here’s how I’m managing my election anxiety. Baby’s experience eight ...
Well-Rounded Special Edition: The Rx for Burn Out
How to gently and sustainably recharge In the last Well-Rounded Special Edition: Anxiety and Burn Out, we discussed the root causes of 2020 burn out. This edition offers mindset shifts that will help you recharge in a productive way. We can make COVID count if we use it to reassess our ...