As a body image expert, weight is a very touchy topic for me. I care deeply about how women feel about themselves in their bodies. I care about whether they feel strong physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I care about how they feel energetically. I care about how they see themselves when they look in the mirror. And I care…
Can you imagine anything that could hurt more than chronic physical pain? How about the pain that lives inside? The emotional agony that comes with the judgmental stares and whispered comments when you’re 100 pounds overweight? The inability to buy a beautiful dress, or the seat-space shame when flying on an airplane?Now can you imagine losing that weight, and still coming…
There is nothing like the holiday season to bring up pain and suffering for many of you. It is supposed to be a season of light and love and yet many of you find yourself overusing and overeating and feeling guilty for not doing enough or buying enough. It is exhausting! Your critical voice is a common and unfortunate constant…
For over 10 years I read these powerful words everyday, often many times a day (I carried them with me). The power in these statements helped my mind shift from pain to power. From hopelessness to possibility. These words instructed my life. I got them from a former coach and teacher of mine and I thank her all the time…
Getting Into Your Self-Love Zone This Summer… Summer (my favorite season) is almost complete and still– who else has memories of cookouts, county and state fairs, being in the pool or at the beach all day? These memories come flooding back to me. But that is the life of childhood, when summer vacation meant glorious weeks of no commitments. It’s…
I just love birthdays. I’ve always felt that they are my own personal New Year’s. It’s a time to acknowledge accomplishments, goals, setbacks, loved ones by celebrating that extra number being added on. I am about to ring in “53”. I make sure I celebrate my birthday every year with one women who has brought such love and light and…
Americans spend billions supporting the weight loss industry but often fail because they are not diet or exercise ready. They may be sustaining the industry, but are they really supporting themselves in permanent change? How many of us have homes littered with failed attempts at losing weight or attempting exercise plans guaranteed to take the pounds off and give us…
Do you ever feel like you’ve cheated yourself – sacrificed your wants, needs and values – by lying about how you feel? Perhaps for someone else’s sake? How often have you wanted to say NO but instead responded with YES to please others? It might be last-minute babysitting, staying late at work to cover a colleague’s mistake or it could…
Do you ever have thoughts like these? My life would be better if I looked better. I will never look as good as _____________. My _________ is/are so ugly. I am so fat. The scale can’t be right. I look disgusting; no one could ever love me. If you do, you’re not alone. In a seminal study of body image…
Yesterday I was looking through some old files and I found my first business plan from 2009! That seems like eons ago. I was reading the pages of statistics that I had heavily researched about body image disorders and the obesity epidemic that have plagued the US and many other parts of the world. It made me sad to read…