We love round numbers: *100-calorie packs of Oreos *1 oz of potato chips *1/2 of cooked rice The problem is that these lovely, knowable, concrete numbers have absolutely nothing to do with your body, your needs, what will be satisfying to your unique needs in a given moment. They are in fact completely arbitrary, having […]
Hi there. I hope you are well. We are deep into it – homeschooling sucks, we miss one another, I’d give an eyeball for a massage and a movie in a theatre. But this is where we are, so… When working with clients, we often end up discussing neuroplasticity, that amazing way the brain can […]
Yet another thing that Intuitive Eating and Buddhist philosophy have in common is their deep and abiding trust and belief in each individual’s judgment and experience. Any Buddhist teacher (and Intuitive Eating counselor) worth their salt have uttered “Don’t take my word for it” (or something similar) many, many times. The bottom line is this […]
I hope you are well and safe and surviving these crazy days. The news of Justice Ginsburg’s death hit me like a Mack truck. The morning after I found myself restless, despairing, and ultimately wandering around Manhattan hoping for some deus ex machina to save us all. That clearly has not happened. What I have […]
One of my favorite parts of Intuitive Eating is that it begins by normalizing and giving us permission to feel anger. . In principle 1 – Reject the diet mentality – we are encouraged to “get angry at diet culture that promotes weight loss and the lies that have led you to feel as if […]
Perhaps the most striking difference between Intuitive Eating and, well, everything else is that you have full and unconditional permission to eat. That applies to what, when, and how much. Knowing that we have unconditional permission to eat allows us to stop “eating at” anything that limits us, whether a diet or ourselves. I think […]
I’ll be short and sweet this week: The way I see it, there is no such thing as backward movement on the Intuitive Eating path. We are only moving forward – noticing, collecting data, connecting dots, learning, and practicing. When we experience difficulty or even roadblocks, we do not regress. We join those obstacles with […]
A lot of emphasis is placed on the decisions we make in Intuitive Eating. This is good, of course, as before Intuitive Eating, many of us didn’t even realize we had decisions to make. We operate on autopilot, feel controlled by something outside ourselves, and yet bash our lack of self-control. The realization that we […]
Let’s face it, we don’t tend to love life’s uncertainties. It’s ok – being uncomfortable with uncertainty is human and completely normal. If it’s any consolation, one of my favorite books is Pema Chodron’s Comfortable with Uncertainty (get it just for the title). Naturally, we like to feel as though we are in charge, that […]
In Intuitive Eating, we speak a lot about physical hunger, the one that can only be fed with adequate food that is personally satisfying to you. The counterpoint to physical hunger is emotional hunger, or what Jan Chozen Bays calls heart hunger. But while we carefully examine physical fullness, we rarely speak of emotional fullness […]
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