It’s the holidays! Weeks of giving thanks, sharing blessings, traveling and gathering, and an array of festive aromas and flavors. For some of us, the holidays are joyful weeks of family, friends, food, and fun. Yet, for others of us, the holidays are anxious weeks of white-knuckling our way through over-obliging, over-indulging, and over-eating and […]
Anxiety
Are You Feeling Or Feeding Anxiety?
For many of us, the reason we turn to food when we feel strong emotions is because we don’t know how to process them. We feel an uncomfortable emotion and suddenly we’re searching for something to put in our mouths and we’re not even hungry! Realizing that eating our emotions is not the answer, we […]
How To Feel Less Anxious: 3 Effective Ways
Anxiety and feeling anxious is at an all-time high. As social distancing, isolation, loss, grief, and overwhelming uncertainty looms, for many of us, how to feel less anxious seems impossible and out of reach. In fact, recent data suggests that the lingering COVID-19 pandemic is having a significantly negative influence on mental health, in general. Whereas […]
How To Feel Instead of Feed Your Anxiety
We can stop the cycle by learning how to accept anxiety, feel it fully, and let it move through us, instead of fighting it, pushing it away, or feeding it.
How To Live Mindfully With Anxiety
For those of us that live anxious, anxiety has been with us for so long, we can’t imagine life without it. Poised for defense, we’re always looking over our shoulder and bracing ourselves for the next shoe to drop. For me, living anxious was as natural as breathing. Most of my life, I was holding […]
Don’t Do It Alone: How I Healed My Anxiety and Disordered Eating
If you or someone you know is trapped in a battle with an eating disorder, please reach out for help and support. Don’t do it alone.
