Diet, Nutrition & Eating
How to Stop Dieting and Keep Your Sanity
You’ve tried diet after diet. You’re confused on what and how to eat. You’re sick of feeling like a failure. But guess what! You didn’t fail. You are not a failure. The diets have failed you. It’s time for you to stop dieting. These low-carb, low fat, ketogenic, no-sugar, detox, calorie-counting, point tracking, and intensive…
Read MoreFive ways to eat more plant-based foods
When it comes to integrating more plant-based foods into your meals, diets described as “plant-based” can spark thoughts of extreme smoothie consumption, mega salads and carbohydrate loading. From this common perspective, plant-based eating can be intimidating, underwhelming and may elicit a sense of restriction. Skyterra’s Massaged Purple Kale Instead of putting labels on food or…
Read MoreFive ways to be more mindful
Recently, mindfulness has become a pervasive buzzword. You can find mindfulness used in schools, your job, in yoga and fitness classes, in coffee shops, restaurants, and even in your doctors office. We hear the word mindfulness but what does it mean, and more importantly, how do we become more mindful? Jon Kabat Zinn, Ph.D, who…
Read MoreYour Emotional and Binge Eating has Served a Powerful Purpose Until Now: Here’s how to Rewire Your Brain
Food, food and more food. We are about to approach the feast-focused season in which holidays, family gatherings, parties and more are centered around food. For many, this can be an extremely challenging time. Overeating seems to be part of the norm, but when does eating too much cross over into binge eating?
Read MoreThe Biggest Winner (Spoiler Alert, It’s Not the Dieters)
Why diets and “fat camps” fail. Everyone wants to look good to others. In many cultures, this ideal means looking thin and fit. Thus, Americans go on an average of five diets in their life span. That’s because in recent decades obesity rates have soared. In response, the 66-billion dollar diet industry thrives. But at…
Read MoreGolden Opportunity for a Second Childhood
The power of lived experience and perceptions. What a golden opportunity I was given to write a blog for the upcoming Healthy Aging: Embracing Life’s Seasons week that I will be facilitating at the end of the month. Elated, I began. And stopped. Feeling stuck, I pondered how to start a blog about a topic no…
Read MoreKiller Bees Honey Expands Apiary to Skyterra
The Magic and Medicine of Bees There’s something about honey that stirs nostalgia. Maybe this feeling comes from the memories distilled in the liquid. You can almost taste the summer day when a pollen-laden bee visited a wand of lavender. There are at least two stories within each drop of honey: the story of the…
Read More11 Tips for Sustainable Wellness & Weight Loss
Why is it so easy to regain weight after dieting? Messages about how to lose weight in media and popular culture often promote the latest fad diet or product. For some reason, we flock to these diets like lemmings. If you only eat these particular foods and nothing else, the propaganda proclaims, you will magically…
Read MoreTake the Weight Off (Your Shoulders)
The answer is not another diet. Find out how to quell unhealthy food urges. It’s that time of year again. You promised yourself that 2019 would be different. You’ve probably tried at least one new diet and exercise program. Keto. Paleo. Vegan. Gluten Free. Pescatarian. Fasting. Cleanses. You’ve worked hard at it but you may…
Read MoreHow Embodiment Heals in Emotional and Binge Eating Recovery
If you struggle with emotional and binge eating, it is often a sign that you are disconnected from your body. Embodiment helps with binge eating recovery by bringing you back into your body, so you can experience it from the inside out.
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