Women, Food, and Desire: Embrace Your Cravings, Make Peace with Food, Reclaim Your Body

Since then, every time I’ve left a job, a city, or even a partner, when I step into that vast unknown, wide-open space, I can count on something magical happening.

Interestingly, oxytocin is a hormone that also inhibits cravings, and this may explain why we forget to eat when we fall in love.

The goal then is to replace unhealthy habits with what I call “heart habits”—actions that will demonstrably increase your well-being with a ripple effect of effortless benefits. When you design your habits so they’re adding to your energy level, your mental clarity, and your physical comfort, you’ll find that you will be able to fill the remaining

If a woman were to give up the weight that’s masking her power, she would become more nimble, more noticeable, more visible in ways that would force her to be more accountable for, and in, her life. And being accountable scares us. And no wonder, because if we become accountable, we run the risk of becoming seen and successful, and if we become suc

if we keep them locked up and hidden, even from ourselves, we are bound to be sick at heart. Isolation is a killer, and leaves us alone with our brains, which aren’t always thinking straight. And when that happens, we’re susceptible to making bad choices.

There’s a pretty broad consensus that a short catnap, anywhere from twenty to thirty minutes, taken before 4 p.m., allows your brain the optimal amount of time to “defrag” and dump unwanted data so it’s primed to make good decisions and to be most able to absorb important information postnap. It also won’t hamper your ability to get a good night’s

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? —Marianne Williamson

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Nilofer Merchant, a leadership visionary and inventor, has even declared that sitting is “the new smoking” because it is two times more likely to cause death than smoking.