Author: deepercravings

  • The “yoga-body” barrier

    The “yoga-body” barrier

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    Yoga is more than a very trendy way to work out while sporting our new LuLu. It can be a very powerful mechanism for experiencing our own body. For many years when I heard yoga I looked the other way. It just didn’t seem like it could possibly be for a heavy, uncoordinated body like…

  • Beauty at the Core

    Beauty at the Core

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    The wonderful thing about learning to stop the incessent chatter in our minds and becoming present in the moment is that in an instant we are returned to who we actually are. Babies and very young children are completely present and awake to their surroundings, they are fully themselves. However as we grow, this becomes obscured by layers…

  • Worn Path to the Mirror

    Worn Path to the Mirror

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    It was that hour in Vegas when a distinct buzz fills the air and the casino floor and hotel lobby begin to fill with people looking fabulous and sparkley ready for a big night out. We were just finishing my mother’s birthday celebration dinner at the Paris Hotel about to head out when I stopped at the…

  • Wisdom from the High Chair

    Wisdom from the High Chair

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    If you watch how a toddler naturally eats you will see that they are all little mindful eaters. When my three year old son is left to his own devices he naturally eats when he is hungry, has no interest in food when he is not and seems to be listening to his body in…

  • Gratitude for the Gift

    Gratitude for the Gift

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    Name a diet and I have tried it. I have belonged to Weight Watchers in 3 different countries over 3 different decades,  I have tried the Zone, Atkins, Slimfast, NutriSystem, Herbalife and many, many others. All of them worked…for a while. Then that inevitable day would come when I would find myself on my second…

  • A New “Enough”

    A New “Enough”

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    Early in my research for A Deeper Kind of Craving I was interested to notice that when I would eat mindfully there was a feeling of great abundance on my plate even with a very moderate portion size. One day I poured a small bowl of cereal and took the first bite very mindfully noticing…

  • Compassionate Curiosity

    Compassionate Curiosity

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    If you have been struggling with food and body issues for many years then you have likely spent countless hours trying to understand and change your behaviors. What presence and mindfulness practice offers is a new way to more gently understand these behaviors and view ourselves. Through mindfulness we move from shame based questioning to a very…

  • A Deeper Kind of Craving

    A Deeper Kind of Craving

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    Deeper Cravings is a very unique program aimed at addressing food and body issues. The program utilizes the practice of presence to help us form a deeper connection with our body so that we begin to lose the body shame, the obsession with dieting, and chaotic eating patterns…and as a result we gain freedom and peace in…