Whether you're setting health goals, personal goals, or professional goals, the key to successful New Year's Resolutions is to create a strategic plan.
Despite our enthusiasm for a fresh start, New Year's resolutions are often short-lived. To make this New Year different, focus on why you do what you do.
When you're "not allowed" to eat foods you love, you may develop feelings of restriction and deprivation which lead to powerful cravings and overeating.
In this video, Dr. Michelle May addresses the question, “What if you binge because you live alone and lack a feeling of love and belonging?” As difficult as it may be to fathom, the first step to breaking this cycle is self-compassion.
By eating mindfully on Thanksgiving, you'll experience optimal pleasure by truly appreciating the wonderful occasion and delicious foods.
Psychologists use the metaphor peeling the onion for exploring a problem one layer at a time. I think of it as peeling the rose petals to fully bloom!
Becoming aware then allowing your thoughts to simply be as they is very different from trying to replace, get rid of, or change your thought.
We’ve been taught to replace a “bad” thought with a “good” thought, or to get rid of “negative” thinking by switching to “positive” thinking. To do this, we have to judge our thoughts as good or bad,
People learning to eat mindfully are curious about mindful eating for children, since kids naturally exhibit so many of the skills they are learning.
Willpower was following someone else’s choices and shaming myself when I failed. Inner wisdom is trusting myself to make the “just right for me” choice.