Cooking Mindfully with Kids (Recipe Included)

Cooking Mindfully with Kids (Recipe Included)

Mindfulness is about paying attention. Regarding food, it’s about our conscious awareness of the experience of eating, both outside and inside the body. We pay attention to the smells, textures, flavors, temperature, and even sounds of our food. We notice the physical...
Eating Organic On A Budget. It’s Possible!

Eating Organic On A Budget. It’s Possible!

I used to be green with envy when my friends who were working full-time jobs bought organically grown healthy foods while I was in grad school and keeping expenses tight. With many people struggling to pay the bills, organic foods produced without chemicals or...
A New Year, a New Life-Long Relationship With Food

A New Year, a New Life-Long Relationship With Food

Shame and secrecy. These are two feelings that my clients often use to describe their relationship with food when we are working to uncover their past struggles with binging, compulsive eating, emotional eating, or food addiction. Their relationship with food causes...
6 Ways to Boost Self-Esteem

6 Ways to Boost Self-Esteem

We all have negative thoughts from time to time. However, when they are aimed directly at ourselves this can be a sign of unhealthy self-esteem. One of the first steps on the road to loving yourself more is to start to think about your sense of self-esteem, and then...