Food Freedom Blog
How to Stop Food Guilt and Quiet Food Noise
When your mind is LOUD when it comes to eating, with its constant judgments about what you are about to eat, what you just ate, or will eat soon, this is called food noise. Being obsessed with what you think you should or shouldn’t be eating and the constant self-judgment can be exhausting. Here’s the way out…
Craving Carbs? Here’s What’s Really Going On
Craving carbs and sugary treats when you really want to eat healthy can be infuriating. If you’ve ever wondered why you can’t seem to break free, let’s talk about what’s really going on when you find yourself craving these foods.
We’ll explore why addressing the mental and emotional aspects of your relationship with food is often the key to breaking free from the craving cycle.
Why You Can't Stop Thinking About Food (And How to Change That)
Do you find yourself constantly preoccupied with thoughts of food? Are you mentally tallying calories, obsessing over your next meal, or feeling guilty about what you've just eaten?
A Poem for Showing up as YOU
I wrote this poem because there’s a transformative power in creativity that sometimes allows us to heal when we reveal ourselves to ourselves and to each other.
Beyond the Plate: Why You Lack Energy as a Highly Sensitive Person
If you're tired all of the time, a common place to start is focusing on nutrition for better health. However, focusing solely on the food—while important—misses a crucial part of the picture. It's essential to widen the lens and consider the suppressed emotions, trauma, and boundaries that often lie at the heart of these struggles. The root of your energy depletion may go far beyond what's on your plate.
How to Rock Your Body and Clothes with Confidence, No Matter How You Look
If you’ve ever felt uncomfortable in your skin or self-conscious in your clothes, you’re not alone. But here's the truth: feeling great in your body and outfit isn't just about how you look – it's about something much deeper.
What’s Going on When You Have No Motivation to Cook
When you're low on energy, it can feel like an uphill battle to cook and take care of yourself. This lack of motivation can lead to a cycle of fatigue, stress, and emotional eating, often followed by guilt after overindulging or just eating less “healthy” than you’d like.
Navigating Weight Gain During Illness or Injury
How to deal with weight gain and feeling frustrated when you can't exercise from someone who understands the anxiety and disappointment that can come when your body doesn't cooperate with your fitness goals. But what if I told you that our relationship with exercise isn't always as healthy as we think it is?
Eating Well for Women with Autoimmune Diseases
Redefining “healing foods” through recovery from chronic illness, autoimmune diseases, and inflammatory conditions. Learn about a more holistic and compassionate approach.
Feel confident in your body, no matter how you think you look
How to feel more confident in your body and yourself right now - no dieting, eating well, exercising, or changing the shape of your body required
A Poem for Stillness
I wrote this poem to capture an internal experience. Writing helps me experience my core imaginative, whimsical, and creative self. May this poem support you in cultivating your own stillness, grounding, and delight.
Healing your relationship with food workshop
A workshop to help you heal your relationship with food by being in connection with other women
How to Not Feel Guilty After Eating
If you’ve noticed the conventional advice around avoiding foods like sugar or other treats doesn’t work well for you and makes it all the more irresistible. Let’s explore how one of my clients who has struggled with binge eating tapped into her inner wisdom by using self-compassion, pleasure, and permission.
Healing Your Gut: Insights from a Health Coach
Healing Your Gut: Insights from a Health Coach.
A holistic approach to healing digestive issues that starts with diet and ends with your relationship to yourself.
A Simple Morning Habit to Have a Positive Day
A Simple Morning Habit to Have a Positive Day. A simple, easy way to start the day to start your day off right. I share a habit of practicing positivity that you may want to try on, based on spirituality and science.
Why Habits Are Hard to Change & What To Do About It
Why Habits are Hard to Change and What Do About It. This video is geared towards anyone who is wanting to make a change in their daily life and routine to better support their physical health or mental well-being.
Before I write
A poem about creativity and the inner struggle with resistance before taking action
Stop Trying to Ignore Your Pain & Negative Emotions (And Do This Instead)
Today I offer my perspective about moving through pain. Surprisingly emotional pain has been shown in studies to simulate physical pain in the way it shows up in the brain.
Getting Out of Your Head and Into Action
There is value in taking my own brain, that can get in the way sometimes, out of the equation after I’ve made a decision that I know aligns with my values and the direction I’ve chosen to move.
Gathering the Courage to Show up More Authentically
Have you ever noticed yourself relying on unhelpful patterns and habits ingrained from childhood when in reality, a completely different energy and action is called for?