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Creative Ways to Stop Binge Eating
It can feel so hard to stop binge eating. Let's be honest: bingeing can feel like an emotional escape—but it often leaves us feeling worse than before. Whether you binge eat to avoid uncomfortable feelings like loss, pain, or even excitement, the aftermath of guilt,...
How To Stop Obsessing Over Your Round Belly
I often get asked how you can go from: Oh god, I knew I shouldn’t have eaten this cookie the other day. I am so unbearably fat. I wish my stomach was as flat as the one of Heidi Klum. Why can’t I control myself? I hate my stomach. to: Sometimes I can’t even fathom how...
What A Difference A Year Makes
What a year this has been. My mom tells me that I always have YEARS. And I guess she's right, but this year has been especially crazy, miraculous, exhausting, adventurous, sad, healing, stretching, enlightening, challenging, grounding and frustrating. This year has...
You Are Not A Project
5 days until 2014. Is your inbox filled with messages of detoxes, weight loss programs, New Year's Resolutions, Post Holiday Pudge Blues fixes and so on? Mine is. And it makes me mad. Mad because all those messages imply is that YOU are a project. Your life, your...
How To Get More of What You Love With This Easy Practice
2013 is rapidly coming to an end. At this time of the year, most of us reflect on all the good and the bad that has happened in the past 12 months. A great way of getting more of what you've loved this year is practicing deep gratitude for everything that you've...
Today
Today is the perfect day To breathe To heal To laugh To break To love To eat To start To end Today To believe To see To be To smile To cry Today To stop To stay To crumble To give To share To receive To care Today To listen To learn To speak To yearn To dance To sing...
A Tale of My Family
Family. A mixed blessing if there ever was one. Hardly anything can enrage me as much as my family can, but hardly anyone can make me feel so taken care of and loved. I've had my share of differences, disappointments and betrayals with my parents and - most of all -...
Turn the Switch: From Self-Loathing to Succulent Self-Love
Let's turn the switch, just for one day. Let's be in love with ourselves, our bodies, our ways. Let's kiss our arms and praise our bellies and be at peace with croissants, apples and parfaits. How would that feel? What would that look like? Can you do it? Can you see...
On Pointing Fingers, Playing Victim and Finding Self-Acceptance
3.39 am I'm wide awake. 4.47 am My eyes are still wide open. 5.23 am My thoughts are all over the place. Emails, criticism, personal shortcomings - they're all surfacing, haunting me, trying to hurt me. Yesterday, I received a response to my weekly newsletter that was...
True Beauty Is Not Skin Deep (And What to Do When You Hate Your Body)
I believe that feeling at home in your body is a can’t-miss element for every single person on this planet. I believe that feeling at peace with your body is every person's innate right. I believe that if you feel icky inside your skin, ugly underneath your clothes or...
How to Bite Your Way to An Unlimited Life
You are limitless. You are so much more than you give yourself credit for. You can do anything, everything if you really want. The only thing that stands in your way is you, yes you. It's often hard to see your true potential. It's difficult to walk outside your...
The Magic of the Real World
I grew up in a world that was all about gloom and doom. "Society is going downhill." "The economy is horrible. You'll never be able to earn money." "You kids can be glad if you have your own field to plant potatoes, salad and carrots on in order to survive." "The...