Blog Topic: Weight

Self-Compassion with Our Eating

Self-Compassion with Our Eating

Self-Compassion is needed whenever I find myself: disapproving and judgmental fixating on nutrients or calories focusing on what's wrong with my body eating more than I want or less than I need binging or purging believing that this pain will never change angry at...

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Emotional Safety and Self-Compassion

Emotional Safety and Self-Compassion

  Emotional Safety and Self-Compassion Self-compassion enhances wellbeing primarily because it deactivates the threat system (associated with self-criticism, insecure attachment, and defensiveness) and activates the self-soothing system (associated with secure...

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Eating to the Point of Energy

Eating to the Point of Energy

"that point in the meal when you finish still feeling a little hungry, but the kind of hungry that can easily be translated into a hunger to do the next thing." Marc David, Institute for the Psychology of Eating There is a radical new way (which really is a age old...

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Grief

Grief

I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so...

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