Emotions are a blessing and a curse. Conceptually, we know they exist, and we experience them daily. Yet oddly, we don’t always have the emotional intelligence to understand, recognize or manage our emotions. Sometimes, managing emotions equates to eating, and it’s aptly dubbed emotional eating. Anyone can participate in emotional eating, though women are more […]
The Gift of Self-Compassion
We can be extremely hard on ourselves! Our tendency towards being chronically self-critical has been called the “trance of unworthiness.” In Tara Brach’s, Ph.D., article, “Awakening From the Trance of Unworthiness,” she argues that this is not just a personal experience but a societal epidemic of feeling unworthy and deficient. At an early age we […]
