Wellness For Real at Any Age

In this episode I talk about your feelings/emotions and how shame and fear relate to and impact your current weight as well as your relationship with food and your body. I give you ways to figure out if you are dealing with shame at a deeper level that is hindering your weight loss and what to do about it.

We talk a lot about thoughts in this podcast…how our thoughts create our feelings which then drive our behaviors which give us our results. How to accept thoughts, how to observe them, how not to “hook” into unhelpful or un-useful ones. So I’m this episode I wanted to focus on emotions because they have such a huge impact on our behaviors & on our physical weight. Keep listening to learn how emoti...

Have you ever been trying really hard to lose weight for a week and then stepped on the scale and you're up 2 pounds? What happens next for most of us is a thought like, “I tried so hard this week and I’ve gained??!! Screw this!!! I will never lose weight!” And typically then the feelings of defeat and frustration appear and the behaviors that are driven from these feelings are often “screw-it eat...

Take a listen to learn the deeper reasons on why you aren’t following your “plan” or your “diet” and learn how to change this behavior to get to permanent weight loss.

It is true that to lose weight or get to that freedom-feeling relationship with food and our bodies, we do have to behave in ways that create this (eating only what our body needs for nourishment) but it really starts before this piece. If you are someone who has repeatedly lost and then regained weight….then this thought-work piece is absolutely crucial for losing the weight for good. For most of...

Eating to satiety is so important for permanent weight loss. Take a listen to learn the skill of HOW to eat to satiety so it’s much easier to lose your weight for good.

If you’re tired of feeling restricted and deprived and having to try “so hard” to lose weight, take a listen to learn an easier, more pleasurable way to get it off for good and find freedom.

Take a listen to learn one of the most powerful (and practical!) strategies that you can start to practice today that will get you to stop overeating!

Take a listen to learn how to think in ways that will actually influence eating and drinking behavior changes to get the weight off for good and live in freedom.

One of the sentiments I hear a lot of in my line of work…whether in my counseling practice or working with my weight loss clients… is needing to feel good in order to make changes in life. I hear things like, “Well, if everything would just go right for once, I could lose the weight” or “If I could just have a week with no stress, I could do this” or “If I was happier, I could make the changes”. N...

If you struggle with binge-eating or chronic overeating, take a listen to learn some practical strategies to stop the binge-eating and over-eating behavior.

Have you ever noticed the person you are in the mornings vs the person you are in the evenings? Or maybe the person you are during the week vs the person you are on the weekends? This topic always fascinates me due to my own personal experience but also from listening to so many clients over the years talk about this. I hear things like, “I’m good all day but then evening comes along and for some...

Have you ever been in this state: You know you want to make a change. Maybe it’s a change to your body, to your relationship life, to how you react to stress in life. Maybe it’s something in your work life or maybe it’s financial and how you handle money. Maybe it’s a characteristic in yourself: maybe you want to be more relaxed, less stressed out all the time. So you truly want this change and ye...

I talk a lot about habit thoughts or patterns of thoughts so I wanted to take a deeper dive into exactly what these things are and how our negative core beliefs influence them. If you are trying to lose weight, optimize your health and/or change something in your life but find you just can’t follow through on the behaviors you need to follow through on to make these changes happen, it is really po...

Do you ever wonder how to keep your mind, your thoughts, your behaviors in a space of moving through and forward from a big issue in your life or getting to a goal you want? It might be weight loss but could also be any other issue that life throws at us and that we need to move through in order to be living the life we truly want to be living. There are many techniques and skills we can actually...

For those of you listening, I can almost guarantee that you probably already have that awareness or insight that you might be using food for emotional reasons. If you eat when you're not hungry or you eat past satiation, you are most likely emotional eating. Often it is this emotional eating that keeps us gaining weight or from losing weight. If we work on practicing cleaning up the emotional eati...

What are the 3 biggest mistakes that are holding you back from losing weight for good? Take a listen to find out!

If you suffer with anxiety, excessive worry, looping thoughts or intrusive thoughts, you may also feel many physical symptoms. You may feel your stomach drop, nauseous, your heart start to race, a tightness in your chest and throat. These are all symptoms of worry & anxiety that plague so many of us and it’s no wonder that many of us turn to food or alcohol to calm these symptoms/sensations. But,...

In this episode I talk about a questioning-process, a new skill of thinking that helps us to live the lives we really, authentically want to be living. It is a skill of questioning that actually helps us help ourselves live more in alignment with our values. It is a skill that will start you on the journey to sustainable weight loss.

Are you trying to lose weight as you age by lessening your calories, counting calories, restricting certain foods, or over-exercising in order to lose weight or stay in maintenance? Or maybe you try to follow every new diet trend and you lose weight and get healthy for a short amount of time but over time you gain everything back plus some. This is miserable living! Restriction, rules, starving, o...

Do you think you might have some perfectionistic thinking patterns going on? Do you find yourself struggling with anxiety, or procrastination, or not doing the things you keep telling yourself you want to do? Are you are wanting your life to be different, your body to be different, your relationships to be different and yet you find you can’t get yourself to make these changes happen? Then this ep...

Strong urges to over-eat or binge is a little different than a craving. A craving is typically for a specific food as an urge is a sensation; a feeling that compels you to behave in a specific way. And in this case, to over- eat or over- drink. An urge is also a little different than an impulse in that an impulse lacks temporal pressure. The time factor involved with urges functions by creating ps...

The importance of feeling a feeling does not just apply to deep negative emotions like loss and grief and pain. Feeling the feeling also must be applied to the “more neutral feelings” like boredom or restlessness if you want to stop over eating and bingeing (many of us eat out of boredom and restlessness). We are not in intense emotional pain exactly; we’re just feeling restless or agitated or bor...

Have you ever reacted to a situation or another person and regretted how you reacted later on? Our emotions can be overwhelming at times, feel absolutely true when they are happening and many of us are just in the habit of reacting in order to “off-load” the emotions that we are experiencing in the moment. Unfortuantely, often our reacting creates unneeded emotional pain which leads to many things...

Metabolism is important for life but it can exsit on a continuum…so metabolism can be considered unhealthy (usually slow) all the way to optimally healthy or optimal. We all have different rates of metabolism and also individually can have different rates at different times in our lives. At its optimal level, it is humming along beautifully….accessing and using fat from fat stores when needed, giv...