If you find yourself using emotional eating as an outlet when stressed, it is best to view it objectively and learn from the trigger. It is common to use food and alcohol to numb and comfort emotions. However, in reality, this prolongs and worsens the problem. Let go of the guilt and, instead, try picking up your journal and writing about your needs. By simply understanding the ... Continue Reading
Discover the Cause of Your Disease – How to Free Yourself from the Doctor, Medication and Sickness
If you have chronic symptoms and are taking medications or natural supplements to treat your symptoms, keep reading. The answers are not in a bottle. Instead, look deeply into the cause of your disease. Before seeking a doctor for the “cure,” try empowering yourself with nutritional information and honest reflection. Contrary to conventional wisdom, medicine does not heal ... Continue Reading
Self-Care is Health Care
A health care plan is useful to cover medical expenses for such things as accidents, pregnancies and illnesses. But you can’t rely on it to take care of your health. The only way to improve your health, and reduce your health care costs, is developing a self-care plan. A traditional health care plan is improperly named, as it does not care for your health. What a health care ... Continue Reading
Count Your Blessings Instead of Calories
Counting calories is downright defeating and depleting. When you focus on what is wrong (needing to lose weight), and what you can’t have (food), you will feel like you are crucifying yourself. This approach is likely to backfire and cause emotional bingeing. After you go overboard, then you will be drowning in shame. Your body responds best with positive vibes and ... Continue Reading
What, and Who, is Blocking Your Health?
To be truly healthy is to have a balanced mind, body and spirit. You may be free of disease and still be unhealthy with yourself and others. Luckily your body will let you know when things get really out of balance. Listen to what your symptoms are telling you and discover what, and who, is blocking your health. Negative self-talk and image When you look in the mirror, ... Continue Reading