04 Mar 2013 2 Comments
Starting out on the journey of learning to love yourself where you are, and how you are, right now is NOT passive. It does not mean that you will stay the same without change. When I speak about self-love a resistance often comes up for people. They seem to believe that if they love [...]
by ani in emotional eating, self love Tags: Ani Richardson, emotional eating, love yourself, self love
26 Nov 2012 No Comments
Holistic wellness, to me, is about nurturing, and being in balance with, the whole self: our body, emotions, mind, soul and Spirit – this creates a feeling of ‘being well’ Halbert L. Dunn said that “wellness is a direction in progress toward an ever-higher potential of functioning” he also stated that wellness was “an [...]
by ani in emotional eating Tags: Ani, Ani Richardson, emotional eating, wellness, whole self
20 Nov 2012 No Comments
Today I read a fantastic blog post by Lisa Clark, of Sassyology.com, about “showing up” and not just concentrating on self love. The post got me thinking, self love, self nurturance, self care, compassion – these are vitally important things. I go on and on about them BUT there does also have to be [...]
by ani in emotional eating, self love Tags: Ani, Ani Richardson, binge, compassion, emotional eating, love, self love
12 Nov 2012 3 Comments
In the past women enjoyed a much stronger sense of community, they met in groups to talk and share their stories and support one another along their life-journeys and through challenges. The sense of support and female community is still strong within tribal cultures, here in the western world this sacred feminine system has [...]
by ani in emotional eating Tags: Ani, Ani Richardson, emotional eating, support
05 Nov 2012 No Comments
October was lupus awareness month, I didn’t write about it, in fact I wanted to ignore it. However, ignoring it is what brought me to my knees in my mid-twenties. Today I found out about a number of young people, younger than me, who died due to their lupus this year and I felt [...]
by ani in emotional eating, self love Tags: acceptance, Ani, Ani Richardson, emotional eating, love, lupus, whole self
29 Oct 2012 No Comments
When fear strike it can sometimes feel easier to bury ourselves under a numbing-blanket induced by a binge. Eating seems to cover that feelings of fear, food can act like an avoidance tactic in a way. However it is a false avoidance because often an over-eating episode can lead to HUGE feelings of shame, [...]
by ani in emotional eating, self love Tags: Ani, Ani Richardson, emotional eating, fear, food, love, love yourself
22 Oct 2012 No Comments
This photo was taken out in Sri Lanka in January 2011, the moment is etched in my mind, the baby elephant was playing around in the water but each time it got frightened it would run to hide with mum for a while until courage built back up again and it would venture back [...]
by ani in emotional eating, self love Tags: Ani, Ani Richardson, connection, emotional eating, meditation, spiritual, wise self
15 Oct 2012 No Comments
In the past I was Ani, the girl who would do anything and everything for people she knew. ‘No’ was not something I knew how to say, I hadn’t learned how to have boundaries and assertiveness was not in my personal dictionary. I was a give, give, giver and a do, do do-er. I [...]
by ani in comfort eating, emotional eating, self love Tags: Ani, Ani Richardson, assertive, comfort eating, emotional eating, love yourself, no, self love
11 Oct 2012 No Comments
Investigating the deeper side of emotional eating can be like a spiritual unfolding, I have said that many times in these blog posts, you can find a porthole to your depths, to your soul. When exploring food obsessions and emotional overeating we might come across feelings and needs we never knew that we had, because [...]
by ani in emotional eating, self love Tags: Ani, Ani Richardson, creative, emotional eating, empty, food, love, love yourself
08 Oct 2012 No Comments
The times that I have stepped out of my comfort zone and followed the strong heart feeling to do something, or say something, even when I have been really nervous, are the times when big shifts have happened in my life. For example when I was 23 I went into the city of London [...]
by ani in emotional eating, self love Tags: Ani, Ani Richardson, authentic, emotional eating, love, love yourself, sassy, self love, shine
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