embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and quiet that critical voice!)

I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they’re hungry and to feel what they feel when they’re not. Inquiry—the feel-what-you-feel part—allows you to relate to your feelings instead of from them.

During the Undereating Phase, physical hunger can be turned into spiritual hunger. Religious people all over the world have long believed that one can only experience a deep spiritual awareness when fasting. This said, I should mention again the full satisfaction and sense of freedom and calm that you can achieve every day during the Overeating Pha

You can ask yourself if you are comfortable at this weight. If you feel healthy, energetic, awake. And if the answer is no, you can ask yourself what you could do about it that would fit your day-to-day life. What you can live with, what you can maintain. What stirs your heart. I often tell people in my retreats that unless there is a resounding Ye

Later, discovering the intuitive eating methodology taught by Marc David from The Institute for the Psychology of Eating in the U.S. helped me to take another big leap forward. I read his books The Slow Down Diet: Eating for pleasure, energy, and weight loss and Nourishing Wisdom: A mind-body approach to nutrition and well-being, completed his eigh