Category: Self Help

Taking Time to Heal

It is important to take the time necessary to heal the pain in your life. It’s hard to be patient in this new world where we want everything to happen now. Hurt can come in the form of physical or emotional pain. Healing takes time and requires patience and trust. If you use food to [...]

Thursday March 3rd, 2011 in Addiction, Food Addiction, Self Help | No Comments »

No Miracle Diet for Food Addicts

There are diets for everything–the bikini-by-summer diet, the lose-all-the weight-you-want-in-thirty-days diet, the just-get-me-into-my-wedding-dress diet, and myriad other weight loss diets discovered daily. At best, the majority of weight-loss diets are temporary. And why? Because dieters have been programmed to expect temporary results. Most sensational diets over-promise and under-deliver. Once all the weight magically falls off, [...]

More Foods That Heal

You may be familiar with the healing properties of some foods, but unaware that they can be helpful in more than one area of your health. For instance, you may have heard that flax aids digestion, but did you know it also improves mental health? Onions reduce the risk of heart attack but they also [...]

Healthy Snacks

Is there such a thing? That depends on who you listen to. Healthy doesn’t mean it has to be a vegetable, or taste disgusting. After all, it’s the combining of foods from the food pyramid that creates the energy we need to get us through the day. Miniature carrot sticks and broccoli are not healthy [...]