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Your Shadow Self: The Hidden Source of Your Greatest Power
There is a woman inside me I call “feral wolf”. I don’t know when she was born, but I met her about 5 years ago. I did a meditation to meet my shadow self and was led into my basement. She was crouched on a bench and growling. She was wearing animal skins. She did…
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How to use your personal motivational style to stay on track
I spent most of my life trying to lose weight. I knew all the research and tried all the diets, but after a few weeks or months I would always fall off track. Why couldn’t I stick with it when I was SO motivated at the beginning? When I finally cracked the code for myself…
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Excess Weight and Cravings are Not Your Fault: Food’s Addictive Properties
I am collapsed on my couch at 10 PM, frantically inhaling handfuls of popcorn. After all, popcorn is a low-calorie, high-fiber, whole-grain food. While I eat, I am already mentally scanning the refrigerator for which leftovers I can eat next. Didn’t I buy some gluten-free crackers I could eat with cheese? For years, I blamed…
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Energy Medicine for Weight Loss: How Energy Shifts Can Effect Your Body
Weight loss is much more complex than calories in vs out. Chronic stress may be altering our metabolism and storage hormones, while traumas and beliefs influence our behaviors. Energy medicine can influence both of these things and more, helping to release stuck weight along with stuck energy. How does energy medicine work? Energy medicine has…
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Navigating to a Meaningful Future
For the past few days I have been comforting myself with memories of my son as a baby. I just dropped him off at college. All my friends are posting pictures on Facebook, but he wouldn’t let me take them as he rushed me out the door in his excitement. To all the new empty…
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Outsmart Your Environment Like a Goddess (and eat less without dieting)
Have you ever ordered a meal at a restaurant and thought, “Wow, this could feed two people!” You’re not imagining it. Over the last few decades, our portion sizes have quietly ballooned. This trend of oversized meals didn’t happen by accident or because Americans deliberately asked for bigger portions, it’s rooted in restaurant economics. The…
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Ending your War with Food is on the Other Side of Fear
Uncover the hidden fears that fuel emotional eating and cravings. Learn how facing your fears is the real path to peace and food freedom.
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How to Eat (and Live) to Keep Your Hormones Balanced Through Chaos
Being a woman in midlife comes with its own special blend of magic and mystery. You’re wiser, more confident, and hopefully caring less about what others think. But along with the empowerment often comes some surprising shifts. If you’ve noticed your weight increasing, moods swings, or sleep getting harder, it’s not all in your head.…
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Is Your Exercise Helping or Hurting You? How to Exercise Smarter (Not Harder)
I spent a lot of my life avoiding exercise. I usually had a gym membership, but I often had an excuse for why I couldn’t get there. I knew it was good for me, but adding even more to my busy day felt like too much most of the time. It turns out, my body…
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What’s Fueling Your Actions: Queen or worker bee energy?
I used to prove my worth with gold stars, good grades, and a relentless work ethic. “See?” I thought, “I’m valuable.” But underneath the productivity and perfectionism was a quiet fear: What if I’m not enough? Overworking is a socially accepted way of chasing worth. It’s sneaky, because it can look like ambition, dedication, or…
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