Has this happened to you? You go out with friends, and have a nice meal. You enjoy the company and the conversation, but when you get ...
Is the cure hidden in the pain?
"And every need brings in what's needed. Pain bares its cure like a child." It always struck me how Rumi wrote about pain. Pain ...
“I’ll do anything to not feel alone…”
It’s common for people who struggle with food to struggle with being alone. “I’ll take anything to distract me from being alone – food, ...
It’s not enough to just look at the symptoms
8 years of teaching about food and the nervous system, and here is what I know! I meet people daily who are proficient at addressing the ...
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Why we resist emotion and some steps to take
There are many reasons we resist feeling our emotions, but if we had to give one main reason, it’s because they are accompanied by a bodily ...
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Tired of all the shoulds?
“I should really go on a diet…” – she said. And then quickly added: ”But I am so tired of shoulds…” You probably have this ...
What’s right about running away!
I work with many people who feel deeply flawed for not being able to "be regulated" with strong emotions. They can be relentlessly hard ...
Are you running on rocket fuel?
Annie Dillard wrote: “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are ...
What your digestion might say about your boundaries
Many of my students have a hard time saying no. Perhaps this is you, too... As soon as the no rolls out of their mouth, they ...
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When diet plans don’t go as planned…
I met with a lovely student the other day. He had just begun a new diet. “I read this book”, he said…”and what I read made ...
Don’t shoot the messenger
Your relationship with your body - your most intimate sensate experience with yourself - is formed way before you can speak or think. You ...
Vanessa
Before I got into the nest, I was afraid that I wasn’t going to fit into it. I am just too big. I had an insecurity about ...
Nicole
Since before I was 5 years old, all I wanted to do was ballet. I dedicated 20 years of my life to training and performing. ...
Helen
The bingeing started at 6 years old. It felt like giving myself a warm hug from the inside. I was so lonely as a child - ...
How I Work
I'm so glad you're here. Hopefully, you’ve had a chance to read my book or attend one of my workshops already. If you haven’t please take a ...
Movement Practices
The 5 rhythms workshop When: When you have lots of energy built up in the body and you want to give it some direction. When you feel ...
Practices to Help Host Ventral, Sympathetic and Dorsal
VOO BREATHING When: Anytime, but especially if you sense yourself frozen, collapsed, numb, dissociated. When making the Voo ...
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Cranial Nerve Activation Practices
10 STEPS: When: 10 steps is a simple and profound way to connect the left and right brain and left and right cranial nerves with the ...