If you are someone who's struggled with emotional eating for most of your life, you probably feel a mismatch between how you want to nourish ...
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Emotions
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 ...
She kept searching for a detox
"My weight has gone up and down for years. I am desperate for a detox or something right now. ...
You are held by more than enough
All emotional eating and restriction is about disconnection - from feeling too much, from remembering, from a present we didn't plan for, ...
When the body says No!
Have you read: "When the body says no" by Dr Mate? It was the first book I read that propelled me in the direction of becoming a trauma ...
Freeing the prisoner
A body image story ...
One nest to hold all of you
How do you build a nest for yourself? A nest for all the aspects of you. The part of you that wants to be creative, and fill the world ...
When cravings hit…and asking the right question
I'll tell you about a student who was having some intense sweet cravings. She's been doing work with me for a while, so she has enough ...
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I am burnt out, I have nothing left to give
“I am burnt out…I have nothing left to give…” This is what my student shared during her consultation to join a group. She was cooked. And ...
Sacred Rest Camp Nov 11-13, 2020
Do you ever try to rest, but you just can’t? Like you have to do a thousand things before you are allowed to? You’re not alone. And ...
Galina’s interview on Revolutionary You
What a pleasure to be interviewed by the wonderful Jason Leenaarts, someone who has walked the hard path of recovery himself, who ...
I can’t rest
I can't tell you how often I hear this. You can't rest. You try to kick back with a book, but your mind keeps spinning asking you to ...
Digestion happens in relationship
When we think about digestion, we often might think about the types of foods we eat, or even how much or when we eat, but have you ever ...
Self-regulation for difficult times
It's been quite the week, lovely friends. I came back from teaching an incredible workshop in Salt Lake City, and my plan was to blog about ...
Inner conversation ice-breakers
When I first began to befriend my body it was lot like in that poem by the unrepeatable poet Nayyirah Waheed: "Apologize to your body, ...
Why does emotional eating help?
My students generally agree when they emotionally eat it's almost like a surreal experience. Before they know it, it's over. And while it ...
Becoming bodyful
All disembodiment is physical. It's a hard thing to plunge your awareness into at first. There are so many thoughts. And half my body is ...
We can do hard things
It's true, isn't it? We can do hard things. When I first started teaching groups and retreats and really sitting with the reality of ...