self love

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 [...]

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 [...]

Learning to love yourself as you are now does not mean staying stuck

  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 [...]

Be aware of how messages in your environment might be triggering your eating patterns

  My interest in subliminal messages was sparked at the age of 15 when I was studying for my GCSE school exams. I learned that messages from the outside environment can influence us even if we are not conscious of it. At that time I decided to record hours of information onto tape and would [...]

Emotional Eating and the Menstrual Cycle

  Do you find that your urge to eat becomes stronger during the week before your menstrual period? Many women, myself included, find that they are more hungry at this time. If you have active emotional eating tendencies then this time may feel uncomfortable and even frightening. Last week I was reading some scientific research [...]

Self nurturance and love are vital when things don’t go to plan!

  Every single year until I was about 14/15 years old I would wish, hope and pray that it would snow on my birthday. It has NEVER snowed where I have been on my birthday. Never. It usually snows the week before or the week after. This year has been the one year that I [...]

Healthy binges as a cover for something deeper

Back in December I wrote a post highlighting the fact that binges don’t always have to involve junk foods. Many people who experience emotional eating,binge on healthy foods such as salads, fruits, smoothies, vegetables etc, yet they still experience the binge as psychologically painful – and it is, because beneath the reaching for food lies [...]

Take some time on this solstice day for reflection, celebration and inspired dreaming

  Happy solstice, happy Yule. The shortest day, 21st December 2012. Perhaps the end of our own personal inner-world as we know it and a chance for new beginnings and re-birth? I love to take solstice day each year to reflect, to hibernate within, look back through the year just passed, celebrate all that I [...]

It doesn’t matter what you are bingeing on

  It doesn’t matter what you are bingeing on, if it hurts your heart and mind then it hurts. People who eat emotionally, or comfort eat, come in all shapes and all sizes (because we are all humans and that’s the deal, we all have beautifully different body shapes).  Often people get the impression that [...]

Practise wise compassion, rather than idiot compassion

  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 [...]