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We have a desire, a goal we want..maybe we desire more money or we desire a healthier relationship with our significant other or we desire being able to be more creative in life or we desire to change a job we dislike or we desire to lose weight and live in a healthy body. Take a listen to learn about desire, commitment and sustained commitment and why sustained commitment is actually what we need to make our desires, dreams & goals come into reality for us. I also share the “HOW” ….HOW to create sustained commitment in your life so you can realize your goals, your dreams, your desires.

Do you feel overwhelmed, emotionally and physically exhausted? Do you have a diminished ability to empathize or feel compassion for others? Compassion fatigue can be very frustrating as you really do care about people but find yourself at odds with your own values when you find you are feeling irritable and angry and low on patience with others. And living out of alignment with our values leads to things like overeating, over drinking, and/or just a huge sense of dissatisfaction in life and this leads to more stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. In this episode I talk about ways to heal and get back to being who you are…that caring, compassionate, helping person and feeling back in alighment with yourself.

In this episode I get into some deeper level work to relieve anxiety and stress and worry. In my world of therapy, I really find this is the peice that really solidifies an anxiety free life for good. This is a way of creating an actual relationship with anxiety, a way of having a different mindset about anxiety, a way of finding peace with it. Take a listen to begin your journey free from anxiety and worry.

Learn how to use your breath and body to solve for anxiety. Thought work is powerful and amazing at alleviating anxiety but often many of us who have heavy duty anxiety, panic attacks, etc. can’t always access the parts of our brain that we need to do thought-work. So going to our breath or body first in those moments can help regulate our system and get us back to being able to access our frontal lobe and do the thought-work.

Learn how our habits of thought in our brains create anxiety in our bodies. Learn ways to create a more relaxed relationship with anxiety (yes, this is possible!) and begin to heal and find a life that is filled more abundantly with joy and meaning and love and richness and the beauty that still exists in our world.

Many of us often go to food and/or alcohol for pleasure. We also usually hold a sub-conscious (or even conscious) belief that pleasure only happens with food and/or alcohol. But…. we actually have natural pleasures that are occurring all day long that we just are not tapping into or paying attention to. The more we can tap into these natural, every-day pleasures and really pay attention to them, the easier it is to stop using food or alcohol to fulfilll un-met pleasure-needs. Take a listen to figure out how to experience more pleasure every day so urges for overeating food and drink subside.

Learn what dichotomous thinking is, how it leads you to overeating and/or binging behaviors & how it keeps you from being successful at losing weight and keeping it off for good. Learn how to change this habit-thinking-pattern to a way of thinking that will create more effortless weight loss, better healthy behaviors, & overall mental, emotional, relational, & physical well-being.

This episode touches on some of the deeper issues that go along with an inability to lose weight for good, inability to stick to habits you want to stick to, inability to reach any goals you have for yourself. Our behaviors, our follow-through, our ability to sit through difficultlt or uncomfortable feelings in order to reach goals has everything to do with our belief systems, our thoughts, our mindset. Limiting beliefs create the feelings that keep us from behaving or taking action on the the things we actually really want to do to get to our goals. Learn how to release limiting beliefs through forgiveness work (which are skills that can be learned and practiced).

This episode is all about how to keep promises to yourself and how to set goals you'll actually keep. If you typically set a goal of losing weight (or any goal) and then promise yourself I am going to follow this eating plan or workout plan or I’m going to drink more water or I’m going to be kinder to my partner or my children ….and then you find yourself breaking these promises to yourself…yelling at your kids, working out for a day and not the next or overeating when you promised yourself you wouldn’t…then this is the episode for you! Listen to learn the HOW behind keeping promises to yourself. There are strategies you can use to get yourself to keep those promises to yourself!

I’ve been doing health and weight loss coaching for a long time and what I have seen first hand is that the diet the person is following doesn’t matter very much in regards to losing weight. You can be vegan, carnivore, keto, following specific macros, low carb, carb loading, counting caloires, etc….you can actually lose weight on all of these plans. But to lose the weight FOR GOOD on any of these plans, you need compliance. Without compliance you may lose weight at first but if compilence stops, you will gain the weight back and usually plus some. We know that compliance really is the key to long term weight loss and maintainance. How well you stick to your diet, day in and day out, is compliance and is what will or won’t get you to your goal and get you to stay there. Take a listen to learn how to create compliance for yourself in a way that is simple and enjoyable.

This episode is all about the art of saying no….setting loving boundaries for ourselves with others and with food/drink. Learn why setting boundaries wth food and drink can actually create a healthier relationship with food that leads to weightloss, health, & food freedom. You will learn how to set boundaries without creating restriction mentality and instead creating a more postive, loving relationship with yourself. I give examples of what boundaries with food and drink look like without creating feelings of resentment or frustration.

Take a listen to learn about boundaries and why they are so important for our mental and emotional health but also why they are so important for weight loss. We will talk about how to begin to implement healthy boundaries in life as well as with food. As always, I include very practical strategies to get you started!

Do you often react to your feelings and later regret how you acted or behaved? Do you often over eat or over drink to escape emotions or numb them momentarily? Take a listen to learn how to keep feelings from ruining your life and your weight and health.

Why do we keep doing the thing we don’t really want to do? It can be so frustrating to know what you really want to be doing (like not overeating, not over drinking, not worrying, not over spending) but doing these things anyway! Take a listen & learn how to get to a place where you can begin to change this behavior….where we don’t overeat, over drink do the habit of behavior that we really don’t want to be doing.

Do you struggle with over-eating or binging behaviors? These topics are really close to my heart as personally they have effected me in such a profound way over my lifetime. I also have worked and continue to work with so many clients who deal with over-eating, over-drinking, binging behaviors. It is a silent, very shameful struggle. These behaviors can really take over our entire lives. You may not always be actually binging but throughout the day you may be constantly thinking about binging, then thinking about how not to binge, then fantasizing about binging, then trying to get your thoughts under control so you don’t binge….it just takes so much energy and your life just sort of slips past you. You know you want to stop but can’t get yourself to stop. Take a listen to learn ways to unwind the behavior and start to heal.