I recently stumbled across a video from 2020 during lockdown when I was juggling clients remotely and piecing together a childcare plan for my kids. Feeling a mixture of lethargy and “leave me alone world” I had 30 minutes in my office before I had to be back on parenting duty. Parents around the globe were dealing with the same thing (and …
I remember where I was when I realized something was really wrong. It was a parking lot. My mother had just picked me up. I was 21. It was summer. I can’t remember what she said exactly, but I think she wanted to run some errands. I burst into tears. My legs and arms felt like they were weighed down with lead. …
There’s a big difference between treating the symptom, and treating the underlying cause, of depression. If you’ve ever found yourself repeatedly sinking into the quicksand of despair, inertia or sadness, you’ll know how difficult it can be to heal.
Depression, once treated, often returns – and becomes more likely to recur the more often it is experienced. Every time a person gets depressed, …
Many of us binge. What differs, is what we binge on. For some of us it’s food, alcohol, drugs or sex. For others it’s anger, anxiety, self-loathing or self-pity. The cycle in each case is surprisingly similar. We feel more and more tight and tense on the inside, our thoughts become all consuming and sooner or later, something snaps. We find temporary …
The underlying cause of the growing epidemic in eating disorders and obesity isn’t food, but the fact that we don’t want to feel. We don’t know what to do with the sadness, disappointment, anger, helplessness, shame, anxiety or worthlessness inside of us and so we try and avoid or numb it through food and eating (or through not eating which is the …
The key to transforming our lives doesn’t lie where we think it does. We make the mistake of believing that getting to where we want to go means working harder or striving more. In reality – no matter whether we’re wanting to heal our relationship with food, end the arguments in our home, grow our business or meet the man or woman …
