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13 May 2013 No Comments

Learning from bikers

My love of being a pillion rider on our motorbike, Zizi, is something I have written about previously. The freedom and the closeness to my husband Chris are a joy to behold! Beyond the sense of meditation that I get from being on the bike there is something else that I have learned to [...]

by ani in emotional eating, support Tags: Ani, community, emotional eating, love, support

08 May 2013 No Comments

How do you cope when it feels like you are riding a roller-coaster of emotions?

Recently I have been challenged in ways I hadn’t expected. Over the last 10 years I have been learning to ‘be’ with my emotions, to feel them, to allow them, to witness them change, rather than react to them via eating or other escape mechanisms. If you read my blog posts you will see [...]

by ani in emotional eating, self love Tags: Ani, awareness, emotional eating, love

29 Apr 2013 No Comments

Learning to be who you are in any given moment

Last week as I was walking the dogs a lady power-walked by with a T-shirt on that read: “Strong is the new skinny”. Slogans like this one have been going around Facebook and other internet sites. I have also seen this same slogan on photos of ‘ripped’ women in the gym doing planks and [...]

by ani in emotional eating, self love Tags: Ani, emotional eating, love, skinny

16 Apr 2013 No Comments

Food and sex

The following is an excerpt from Love or Diet which is due to be published very shortly (exciting!): “When women begin to look at patterns, feelings and needs they often find that their eating and feelings of sexuality, sexual power and sexual beauty are all linked. Many, but not all women who suffer with emotional [...]

by ani in emotional eating, self love Tags: Ani, emotional eating, food, sex

09 Apr 2013 No Comments

Emotional eating as a mis-interpreted call to connect to your body

At the moment I am reading “REVEAL, A sacred manual for getting spiritually naked” by Meggan Watterson, you may have read some of the quotes from the book that I posted on my Facebook page. I highly recommend this book, it is beautifully written. Meggan writes about many things including how to begin honouring ourselves. Last [...]

by ani in emotional eating, self love Tags: Ani, emotional eating, self love

03 Apr 2013 No Comments

When we slip back into body criticism how can we recover?

Yesterday my friend and mentor, Lisa Lister, wrote a beautiful blog post, Every body has a story, which touched me deeply. In the post Lisa writes: “I’m a size 18/20 and I’m hot. I have a gorgeous friend who is a size 8, she’s hot too. Society would like to label us ‘fat’ and [...]

by ani in emotional eating, self love Tags: Ani, awareness, compassion, emotional eating

25 Mar 2013 No Comments

Investing in yourself is an act of self care

For years I found it difficult to spend money on myself. I thought it was selfish. On some level I believed I just wasn’t worth it. Spending money on my friends and family was easy, if I was out I always offered to pay, I bought beautiful gifts for the loved ones in my [...]

by ani in emotional eating, self love Tags: Ani, emotional eating, give, love yourself, receive

18 Mar 2013 No Comments

Cultivating an attitude of gratitude

Today I am filled with gratitude for many things: for waking up in a warm bed (it is mid-March and still feeling like winter here in the UK), for the singing birds, for Chris and Fredd-dog, for a lovely morning walk, for hot running water….and so much more! If you are a regular [...]

by ani in emotional eating, self love Tags: Ani, emotional eating, gratitude, self love

11 Mar 2013 No Comments

Strategies to prevent emotional eating when you feel overwhelm building

Having nourishing strategies to help you cope during times of overwhelm is a key nurturing tool for preventing binge episodes or emotional eating. Each one of us needs to find our own personal recipe for self-soothing without resorting to stuffing down the overwhelm with food. I have written before that it is important to [...]

by ani in emotional eating Tags: Ani, emotional eating, love, overwhelm

26 Feb 2013 No Comments

Mindfulness can help to interrupt emotional eating patterns

The Buddhist principle of mindfulness is now being studied in depth as an aid for helping with many issues in life from stress and depression to emotional eating. Mindfulness is about bringing our awareness, our attention back to the moment, back to the now. Mindful eating is a fantastic tool for shining the light [...]

by ani in emotional eating, mindfulness Tags: Ani, binge, emotional eating, mindfulness