Blog Topic: Nutrition
Body Compassion: Using Your Breath to Change Body Image
You can always use your breathe to settle your mind and gently change your relationship to food and your body. It takes practice and kindness. Because your mind will wander. The practice is to gently, kindly bring it back to your breathe. Observe your mind, note...
Meditation for Compassionate Weight Loss
We live in a 'boot camp' kind of world. Most of us have been taught to motivate ourselves with striving, pushing, ignoring feelings and using negative self-talk. There is another way. A more compassionate way - that research shows has positive health, fitness and...
Breaking the Fast
Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety – best preacher that...
Body Compassion: Is Your Body Image is a Problem?
The short video below asks you to consider these 8 simple questions to help you consider whether body image is interfering with your health and happiness. Distress Test Do you avoid wearing bathing suits and revealing clothing? Do you hate looking at photos of...
Super Simple GF Banana Pancake
My cousin Diana in Australia shared this recipe with me. Mash one banana with 2 eggs. Add a touch of cinnamon and a tablespoon of chia or flax. Spread on a heated pan and cook both sides. It won't take long. Top with a scoop of probiotic yogurt and some berries....
Body Compassion: Seeing Yourself as You Really Are
There is a kind, gentle way to change bad body image and eating behaviours. Seeing yourself as you really are without the negative comparisons or self-criticism, makes it easier to eat better, feel better and look better. Sit tall, breathe deeply and put your...
New Thinking about the Old Food Guide
What a controversial subject! Some people are very reactive to the idea of Canada’s Food Guide and others find it a very helpful simple tool for eating healthier. Most countries have a food guide that outlines a balance of locally available foods to eat each day in...
Grace after Meals…….by John ODonohue
We end this meal with grace. For the joy and nourishment of food, the slowed time away from the world to come into presence with each other and sense the subtle lives behind our faces, the different colors of our voices, the edges of hungers we keep private, the...
Gut Problems
There is a fabulous new book out that can help people suffering from IBS. The latest research has found that the FODMAP diet provides real relief for people suffering from gastrointestinal problems such as IBS, Chrohn's and multiple food intolerances. Here are the...
The Poetics of Food
Of course, it is valuable to eat healthy food. But often the focus on nutrients and numbers, calories and carbohydrates goes so far away from the pleasure of food. It is so important to include pleasure in our life. Pleasure heals. Even when we are suffering with...