Tag: spirituality
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From Hiding to Wholeness
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…
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From Madness to Miracles: The Sacred Act of Relationship
Relationships have a way of undoing us. They can strip away our carefully constructed masks, expose our deepest wounds, and pull us to the brink of despair. For me, that unraveling came secretly, privately within my own marriage. By day, I was a therapist—guiding others navigating destructive patterns and relational challenges, even working with some…
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Rejection and Undoing the Worthiness Wound
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…
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You Are Not Your Body
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.…
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Is it ‘selfish’ or is it SELF CARE?
Earlier this year I found myself in the middle of a delicious unexpected “me-time” opportunity, I was in my office when I had a couple of last minute client cancellations in a row, in the back of my mind I had remembered that just a couple of blocks away a woman was giving an…
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Feeling Resentment?
We all have had the experience of hanging on to resentment. It is a normal part of relationships but it is also a toxic dynamic that can cause unnecessary suffering. To be fully free in our personal relationships we must have the courage to move out of the victim stance and let go of resentment.…
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Can’t Stop Eating? Get (mind)Full
Are you mystified with your inability to listen to your body and stop eating when you’ve had enough? For more than seven years in both my personal life and in my psychotherapy practice I have been studying the reasons why we reach for food when we are not hungry. The best answer I have found is…
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A Vote for Love
Today many hearts are broken, many hearts are grieving, many hearts are fearful, many hearts are celebrating, many hearts are relieved, many hearts are wrapped in hope. Today, we interpret our world from many different places but what unifies us is that at the center of ALL hearts there is a yearning for peace. We…
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A New New Years Tradition
I don’t remember when my former New Years tradition began but I am guessing it lasted for at least 20 years. Gearing up to the big day I would get intoxicated with excitement about my resolve to be perfect in my eating and exercise habits. I would completely convince myself that this was THE YEAR,…
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The Comparison Trap
“She is so amazing, articulate, beautiful, thin, accomplished, confident” with every recognition of beauty in that person, that object of our envy, we sink further and further in to self doubt and inner criticism. I call these experiences our toxic comparisons. In my body loathing days I was filled with them – daily. All around…
Peggy Farah, LMHC, RCC Deeper Cravings 