I’m so excited to share this guest-post by my friend and colleague Richelle Jarell, an ayurvedic practitioner, vedic astrologer and spiritual soul sister-of-awesomeness! Want to explore new pathways to finding peace, balance and freedom in your relationship with food? Ayurveda is a GREAT resource to add to your toolkit! Ayurveda is a 5,000 year-old system…
It used to be a daily struggle. Every morning I would wake up and the first thought on my mind would be food. What was I going to eat today? What was I NOT going to eat today? I wonder if today will be a “good food day” or a “bad food day.” Today I’m only…
Have you ever wondered why it’s so dang hard to control your eating during the holiday season (as if it isn’t hard enough all year)? You may think it’s because you don’t have enough willpower in the face of all the tempting food, but nothing could be farther from the truth. I remember what the…
Whether you love it or hate it (yes, some people do), Thanksgiving is here. It’s the official food holiday of the year, and the kickoff to an entire season of parties, family gatherings and abundant food spreads. This can be a dicey season for many people, particularly those who struggle to maintain their weight, health or…
“You don’t deserve to eat that because you were bad yesterday.” “You can’t be trusted with XYZ food so you’d better not have it in the house.” “You blew it again so you may as well eat everything and start over tomorrow!” “You must be stupid to be this age and still have so little…
When I was struggling with food, I can’t count how many mornings I woke up making yet another promise to myself to “be good” with food that day. Actually, it was more like a fearful plea… “Please, God, let this be a good food day.” And then would come the Food Police laying down the rules… “OK…
A couple of weeks ago I was working with a client who was experiencing an eating setback. After several weeks of amazing self care, awareness, and intense and courageous personal growth, she had slipped back into her pattern of binge eating, and was in total despair. Full of self-doubt and self-recrimination, she told me, “Michelle,…
What comes to mind when you think of “Exercise”? Is it a joyful, expansive feeling of activity, creativity and delight, or is it a sense of obligation, suffering and dread? For a lot of women – especially those who struggle with food, weight, and body image – it’s more of the latter. Exercise becomes a big…
Something really cool just happened. It’s not something I could have seen coming, especially all those years that I lived in a self-imposed prison of food rules and restrictions, alternately bingeing and starving myself, feeling totally powerless to change. All that time that I truly believed there was something wrong with me because I didn’t…
My relationship with my mom has been complicated over the years, which is kind of interesting, because I’ve said same thing about my relationship with food and my body. There was a time when I literally blamed my mom for my eating disorder. I was angry because she hadn’t been a better model of healthy…
