Eat, Recycle, Repeat

The Takeaway: For many of us, significant emotional healing has to happen before, or in tandem with, physical healing. Resisting emotions creates resistance in other aspects of a healthy life. Actions: I. Get uncomfortable and explore your emotions II. Answer emotional cravings with self-love III. Get a Buddy! The Back Story: I didn’t know how [...]

When I’m in the throes of an emotional craving, it is difficult for me to practice healthy, mindful eating. I try and do that for every meal, but when I’m really struggling with emotional eating or emotional cravings, these 12 steps are how I work through the rough times in order to enjoy the great [...]

Things are getting much better this week in terms of me & my body image. I’m not feeling guilty or worried over the amount of carbs I’ve eaten, and when I look in the mirror I think about how I am worthy of love and how I can give love to others. My eyes still [...]

I’m feeling a bit silly as I write this, but that is totally ok because I need more silliness in my life. I constantly take things way to seriously, or at least overthink them. Does anyone know how to turn off your brain and just be? I’ve been working to change the way I narrate [...]

Sometimes I can’t learn from my mistakes right away. Often when it comes to food & emotional eating, not to mention healing and finally weight loss, I have to make several mistakes before it really sinks in. I used to get really upset with myself about this, “Ugh! Didn’t this happen the last time? Why [...]

I’ve been tiptoe-ing around this post for a while. It was really cathartic to write a few months ago, but I’ve been afraid to post it. Normally if I am afraid of something, that tells me that it is worth doing. Perhaps it will be a post that will slip away unnoticed, as I am [...]

Last week I wrote about the four components of holistic health, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. There is one unifying element to help you achieve all these things. It is self-love. Even when I started eating healing food, began to recover from depression, got some semblance of balance over my emotions, and discovered my spiritual [...]

Health has a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual component. I’m a huge believer in holistic health, addressing issues from all four sides, because all these components are related. You can’t try and fix one alone and expect to heal. Physically, I’m challenged with the autoimmune disorder Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Mentally, the [...]

Last Friday I was done. I didn’t want to bike home from the store in the rain. I didn’t want to make even the simplest dinner. I didn’t want to read any more books, no matter how awesome or life-changing they had the potential to be. I didn’t want to write any posts, or do [...]