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I read an article a while back written by one of my favorite people in the healthy, holistic eating world, Geneen Roth. Her approach to emotional eating and "legalizing food" has been hugely inspiring to me. Read more

We’ve all heard the phrase, “you are what you eat”. Of course in so many ways this is true. What we eat becomes us. I’ve also heard it said that “we are what we don’t excrete”. This is also true, for physical nourishment as well as anything we ingest, even ideas. It is only what we absorb, take into ourselves, and hold on to, that becomes who we are. Read more

Well said by Dawna Markova in her book I Will Not Die an Unlived Life, “most of the Western world is caught up in doing, doing, doing-we have become trained to do in order to have so that maybe in some distant time we can be. This is all backward.” Read more

You know the feeling…let’s just say hypothetically a major holiday just passed and you shockingly put on 5 pounds over a weekend; incessantly eating, one large celebratory meal after another for 2 days straight; wine, bread, dessert…the more the merrier right? Read more

So this week I reset my intention and commitment to move my body every day. As a form of nourishment I set out to feed myself movement daily in some form or another beyond simply walking to and from the subway. Read more

“Screw it”, “hell with it”, “f**k” it” - if I hear myself saying any of the above I know it means trouble!  It is probable that if I am applying a naughty word to what I am about to do it likely means I am planning on sabotaging myself.  Read more

A friend contacted us a few weeks ago deeply disturbed by the weight she'd gained since the birth of her last child. Mostly she had a desire to get herself to the gym more often, but repeatedly came up with reasons why not. She would go one or two times one week, then skip it the next. Read more