Tag: Mental Health

  • From Hiding to Wholeness

    From Hiding to Wholeness

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    The untold truth behind yesterday’s “madness to miracles” story I remember the moment I pressed “publish” on my very first Deeper Cravings blog revealing my personal (decades long) struggle with emotional eating, weight yo-yoing and body shame. I felt exposed, vulnerable, and strangely exhilarated all at once. For the first time, I was telling the…

  • Rejection and Undoing the Worthiness Wound

    Rejection and Undoing the Worthiness Wound

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    It’s a universal experience, the painful sting of rejection. The hurt that comes from being left unchosen; unrequited love, break-ups, job loss, friendship reaches left unreciprocated. We have all been there. We have all tasted that bitter pill. We go around unconsciously searching for evidence. It started when we were very little. We unconsciously began…

  • You Are Not Your Body

    You Are Not Your Body

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    You are not your body. You have a body, you use a body, you care for a body, you are entrusted with a body but you ARE not your body. This time of year the messages are everywhere to buy in to the “New Year, New You” fervour to change, control and perfect your body.…

  • More Than a Mind

    More Than a Mind

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    I was participating in a meditation recently where the meditation teacher stated: “Everyone’s source is their mind”. While I greatly respect this teacher and align with most of his teachings I have difficulty with this one idea. It is commonly held in our culture that our mind is the sum of who we are. Our…

  • Sinking in Sadness, Swimming in Self-Compassion

    Sinking in Sadness, Swimming in Self-Compassion

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    You’ve most likely heard of a P.D.A. (public display of affection) but have you heard of a P.D.S.? I found myself experiencing one last week unexpectedly at a YMCA during an aquafit class. P-D-S: Public Display of Sadness. There I was in the middle of a pool with happy, chatting, splashing Seniors when a huge…

  • A Holiday Hijacking

    A Holiday Hijacking

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    This really is my favorite time of year, but it can also be a time of frenzied activity, financial stress, and deep loneliness.  It can be easy to get caught up in all the emotion and lose our sense of connection with ourselves missing out on the true beauty and sparkle that is all around. When…

  • Decision Mid-Bite

    Decision Mid-Bite

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    There is power in realizing that once you deeply know something that knowledge cannot be undone. Once we are even just a little practiced in mindful eating, once we experience how different our relationship with food can be, we are then equipped with the power of that knowledge. Even when we unconsciously (or consciously) decide…