Many years ago Marianne Williamson said something to me that resonated so deeply, it shifted my entire outlook on wellness. Of course she was speaking to the audience as a whole, but she looked directly at me as she said, “Just because your prison is self-made doesn’t make it any less of a prison.” I think about that statement often …
Why “Emotional Eating” Is Smart Eating
Many years ago a “Mood Magnet” fad swept through the cubicles of office workers around town. The magnets featured 30 cartoon faces expressing emotions that ranged from ecstatic to enraged. The magnets came with a little secondary “window” magnet with the words, “Today I feel…” to highlight which emotion the person wanted to feature at that particular moment. Those “Mood …
A Matter Of Perspective…
Did I really say that?? I’d been going through the filing cabinets, updating and sorting records, when I came across a file of “keepsakes.” In it was a copy of our community newspaper – The Newcastle News – from February 2007. As a local “fitness expert,” the reporter had interviewed me for a story he was working on about New Years Resolutions …
The Happy Calories Happy Exercise® Project
The Happy Calories Happy Exercise® Project – an experiment in social change – healing dysfunctional relationships with food and exercise on a national level to create healthy and happy Americans. This idea has been brewing in me for awhile now. By far, the biggest challenge my clients face when trying to heal their painful relationships with food and exercise is …
Happy Exercise® Coke’s “Happy Cycle” Is Not…
Ah Coke… you’ve done it again. You’ve inspired a blog post with one of your ridiculous commercials. But perhaps that was your intention in the first place. What better way to get even more media attention than to have the blogosphere all a twitter discussing your latest marketing campaign? My clients sometimes wonder why it’s so difficult to heal their …
Love Note To MamaCon Mamas
Dear MamaCon Mamas, It was so wonderful to speak with you on Saturday! Thank you for being a fabulous audience and a special thanks to all who came over to chat throughout the day. You are amazing women and I hope that you will be able to develop a relationship with your body that brings you love, abundance, vibrance, beauty, and joy. …
Resurrecting Our Self Esteem
For everyone in Christendom, today is Good Friday. And it seems like an oxymoron to me. I mean, what’s so “Good” about being crucified?? At least the Europeans call it “Holy Friday.” But as the unrelenting optimist I seem to be, I suppose crucifixion is “good” because you can’t have a resurrection without it. And the resurrection is where I …
Hungry For Happiness
Hungry for Happiness… This phrase has been stewing in me for a long time now. I noticed it on a paper liner for the plastic serving trays at an Arby’s restaurant a while back. It was a slogan for their foundation’s fundraising campaign to end childhood hunger. They were approaching the phrase from the perspective that if kids were not …
Happy Calories™ On “The Biggest Loser”
During the Q&A session of a recent speaking engagement, someone asked what I thought of the TV show, The Biggest Loser. Needless to say, I am not a fan. There are many things about the show that concern me. First, there is nothing real about “Reality TV”. These episodes use “real” people instead of actors, but they are constructed through directing and editing. …
Weight Loss Tricks & Self-Help Tools
The Seattle Seahawks are headed to the Super Bowl. While I appreciate that my home team has had an extraordinary season, and while I appreciate the skill, hard work and dedication of the players, and while I’ll dutifully don my 2013 NFC Conference Champions t-shirt on “Blue Friday” and wear it to the game day festivities, I can’t honestly say …