Explore the impact of stress on your eating habits. Uncover insights and tips to regain control for a balanced and healthier lifestyle. Let’s delve into understanding this pattern and explore practical strategies to combat it. “Emotional eating is when people use food as a way to deal with feelings rather than to satisfy physical hunger.” Stress impacts our food choices …
Understanding the impact of emotions on eating habits is an important step to healing from emotional and binge eating. Overcoming emotional eating isn’t about focusing on the food on your plate. Instead, making peace with food comes from identifying the hidden emotional triggers that lead us to use food as a negative coping tool. Picture this as a friendly conversation …
Stella was barely holding onto hope when we first met. Her shoulders were slumped and her eyes downcast. She said, “I just can’t seem to stop binge eating, and it’s making me feel so bad about myself.” It’s common for binge eating to be intertwined with feelings of low self-esteem. But here’s what’s important to understand: binge eating can often be …
So why are Dogs are good for wellbeing? Did you know that you can get amazing lessons on healthy living from your dog? When it comes to binge eating, stress eating, or any kind of emotional eating, the real problem is not food. It is what is eating at you, what is going on with you. When we don’t know …
If you’re wondering about emotional eating causes and how they impact your daily life, you’re in the right place. These may be subtle, complex, and often misunderstood, but gaining awareness can be your greatest tool in achieving a healthier relationship with food. This article will shine a light not just on what emotional eating is, but more importantly, what it …
Are you grappling with the challenge of overcoming over-responsibility and binge eating? Have you ever felt crushed beneath a load of obligations and responsibilities? Perhaps caught up in a never-ending cycle of people-pleasing that leaves no room for your own self-care. If so, you might be dealing with over-responsibility, a condition often rooted in past trauma, that can lead to …
Do you strive to be flawless, set extremely high standards for yourself, and often criticize yourself? If the answer is yes, maybe you’re a perfectionist. Perfectionism is that constant drive to be flawless and avoid failure at all costs. It creates impossibly high standards which leads to harsh self-criticism when we inevitably fall short (as all humans do). For those …
This Halloween, focus on treats that go beyond the candy bowl. Let’s dive into 9 guilt-free ways to truly enjoy the season.
I’m puppy-sitting a very adorable dog named Rosey (and yes, that’s the way her name is spelled – some people have told me that it’s spelled wrong but this is the way her “people” spell her name). A rose by any other name, right? Well, Rosey can teach all of us about self-acceptance. How? For one thing, Rosey does …
Do you want to learn how to accept yourself and feel better? Then I have another question for you: When you hear, “accept yourself” what “self” do you think of first? The one in the mirror? Because there is so much more to you than meets the eye. Recently I found some of my old journals from high school (so …
