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Our Relationship with Food: Unpacking the Box

Listen in to learn the underlying reasons why we have toxic relationships with food, why we get stuck in a vicious cycle with food, and MORE!

The Real Reason You Feel Out of Control Around Food

When we feel like we’re lacking willpower or discipline around food, it can lead to feeling out of control with our food choices. That can show up by binge eating, stress eating or emotional eating. Do you ever feel like you have a love/hate relationship with food? You love the taste of it and sometimes […]

When Mindless Eating isn’t About Lack of Willpower

You wrap up work for the day and start to shift into thinking about what you’re going to make for dinner. If you have kids, you also have to shift from being in the work mindset to the caretaker mindset. You shut your laptop and head straight to the pantry. You’re not really hungry but […]

The Secret Stressors of Cooking

Over the last few months, the number of meals most of us have to prepare each day and week has increased significantly. I don’t know about you, but for me I’ve been running my dishwasher more than ever! Are you a person that loves or hates cooking (or somewhere in between)? For some, cooking and […]

Getting to the Bottom of Nighttime Eating

How often do you walk by a mirror and cringe? Or, maybe you try to avoid catching glimpses of yourself in mirrors altogether because they make you feel bad. I hear this scenario from many of my clients. One client in particular was feeling fat and wasn’t comfortable in her body. When we first started […]

A Guide for Staying Occupied and Taking Care of Yourself from Home

While many of us are sheltering in place it has been incredible to see how creative people and businesses have been while adapting quickly to a new way of life. As a way to provide support to you and your family, I’ve pulled together the below guide of different resources from a variety of local, […]

How to Navigate the Office Food Minefield

Working in an office can be one big food minefield from various celebrations, leftover business meals, to the “obligatory” candy bowl on your co-worker’s desk. You start off the day strong with a good breakfast and eat what you brought for lunch. But when you see the free food you just can’t seem to resist […]

A Different Approach for Sustainable Results

When my clients reach out to me for support, they often feel like they’re at a loss of what works for them and their bodies to reach their health, weight and wellness goals. In fact they’re so frustrated and sometimes even feel hopeless after trying many different approaches with short-term success and ending up back […]

Four Reasons it’s Easy to Overindulge During the Holidays

When attending holiday gatherings we can tend to focus on the delicious food we only get to eat once a year. You can enjoy some of your favorite foods AND you should! However, if there is any build up beforehand, mental gymnastics during or negative self-talk afterwards, that’s when the food cravings or focus on […]

Tips from 7 Experts: How to Stay Consistent Through the Holidays

Consistency can be hard to master with any aspect in life, but it can become especially challenging with health and wellness goals during the holidays. We’ve rounded up some experts in their field to talk about different aspects of wellness that can be challenging to stick with during the holiday season. These are simple tips […]

Emotional Eating: A Different Perspective

When you think of emotional eating, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? In the traditional sense, many people think it occurs when they’re bored, sad, happy, lonely etc. Even if you don’t consider yourself to be an emotional eater, I encourage you to keep reading as it can apply not only to how […]

The Domino Effect of Depletion

It’s Thursday and you’ve been patiently waiting for the weekend all week long. You stick to your food goals and are strict with yourself Monday through Thursday. As the weekend approaches you look forward to throwing your hands up in the air and taking a free-for-all mindset for the next few days.

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