Download the transcript (PDF) Last year, after reading Women and Desire: Beyond Wanting to Be Wanted, I put Dr. Polly Young-Eisendrath on my bucket list to have on the show. This book explores the power in women having their own needs and wants, rather than focusing on wanting to be ...
eating and loneliness
Last day and is this the real reason you’ve been stuck around food all these years?
Registration for Truce with Food 2018 closes today. And GO EAGLES! Beat those PatrCHEATS! #flyeaglesfly One of my 2018 goals is resuming a retirement savings strategy. I started one during my Corporate job. Then I left for the start-up life and my financial focus was paying for graduate ...
Is this popular emotional eating tip keeping you stuck?
Want a free sample of Truce with Food? Join us. Twenty years ago, when I was struggling with dieting and emotional eating, I found one expert, Geneen Roth, on the topic. I read her book, Breaking Free From Emotional Eating. For the first time, I didn’t feel alone in my debilitating preoccupation ...
Freedom from the Downward Eating Spiral – Insatiable Season 2, Episode 2
Download the transcript (PDF) Clients come to me because they are looking for something truly different and want to connect the dots on why nothing else has worked long-term before. They are disciplined in many areas of their life, like their career or being a great Mom or daughter. In fact, they ...
A Tool to Eat Moderately Over the Holidays
We’re on the cusp of another holiday season. We all need a respite from the onslaught that was 2017 without adding to the Trump 10. Right now in Truce with Food: Tapas Style, we’re working through automatic pilot eating. When you slow this habit down, underneath is: Eating so we don’t ...
Documentary Review: What the Health?, Episode 87
Download the transcript (PDF) Now on Netflix, What the Health is an inspiring documentary on the power of nutrition to reverse chronic disease. There are wonderful points this movie makes and some key points that would’ve made the documentary stronger. In today’s episode, I’ll share what I loved ...
Transform Emotions into Power, Not Overeating, with Melody Wilding, Episode 78
Feelings like self-doubt and inadequacy can drive us to overeat. Yet if we listen to conventional self-help to “just ignore your inner critic and crush your fears”, you lose self-trust. In this nuanced conversation, I talk with Melody Wilding, a licensed social worker, TEDx speaker and Human ...
Your Green Juice Doesn’t Make You Worthy, Episode 75
Clients often come to me frustrated from everything they’ve tried and exhausted by the lack of results. They also believe it requires too much energy and effort to do ALL.THE.THINGS to lose weight, be healthy and oh yes, fit in your life too. In today’s episode, I reveal and discuss a cultural ...
When you eat the cheese and cupcakes you didn’t want to eat…
In a nutshell, Truce with Food is the solution to figuring out why food is worth it in the moment yet not afterwards. Here’s a little peek into the program. In the first month of the program, you discover what makes food harder than necessary. “Seeing” your story is so challenging, because in ...
How Perfectionism Prevents Deep Connection with Emily McDowell, Episode 66
Emily McDowell, the creator of Empathy Cards and a cancer survivor, has been disrupting the stationery industry since 2013 with her “greeting cards for the relationships we actually have.” She has appeared on Good Morning America, NPR, NBC, and CBC News, and has been featured in the New York Times, ...