Body Positivity: Plus Size Ethics
Conversations around body image have become polarized. At one end are the influencers like Tess Holliday, who champions the plus-size...
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Mouthful of Soul
- Jul 2, 2020
- 2 min
Checking Your Chew
The simple act of chewing slower can remarkably promote healthy digestion and demote a slew of conditions related to poor nutrient...
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Mouthful of Soul
- Jun 30, 2020
- 2 min
Reframe Shame
Guilt is often misunderstood as shame. Shame is possibly the most destructive emotion because it desecrates the person rather than taking...
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Mouthful of Soul
- Jun 29, 2020
- 2 min
Emotional Hangovers are REAL
When your partner breaks trust, when a friend betrays a confidence, or when beloved family belittles you, it's going to sting. It is...
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Mouthful of Soul
- Jun 26, 2020
- 2 min
Reframing Anger: Make It Work For You
Expressed anger is often viewed as out of control emotion. It pushes people away or it draws them in to engage. Many people fear their...
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Mouthful of Soul
- Jun 26, 2020
- 2 min
Track Your Food: Your Mood Depends On It
Most clients in my practice arrive frustrated by fad or extreme dieting. Not only are the short-term gains pricey (between money and time...
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Mouthful of Soul
- Jun 23, 2020
- 1 min
Am I Gay Enough?
For some of you, the pathway from awareness of homoeroticism to sexual reidentification will be the most grievous trial of your lives....
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Mouthful of Soul
- Jun 22, 2020
- 2 min
Joyriding the Food-Mood Highway
It's generally accepted that how we feel influences what we choose to eat or drink (mood to food). We chomp at the bit for just about any...
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Mouthful of Soul
- Jun 16, 2020
- 1 min
Brokeback Molehill
In 2005, many people swallowed hard, raised eyebrows, and giggled gayly at the portrayal of male-male love on the big screen. The setting...
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Mouthful of Soul
- Jun 8, 2020
- 2 min
Newton's Theory De-Platformed
We are saturated with uncertainty and unrest and it's weighing us down. Like a flaky phyllo pastry held together by butter that...
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Mouthful of Soul
- May 28, 2020
- 2 min
Om like Nom Nom
I love it when I am fully present in a moment and suddenly filled with inspiration to create. It's as if I get clunked upside the head...
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Mouthful of Soul
- May 22, 2020
- 1 min
Covid-19 Stress Like 911
In a recent MedScape article, Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, former NYC mental health commissioner, commented that the attacks on the World Trade...
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Mouthful of Soul
- May 19, 2020
- 2 min
Feast or Famine
Have you ever heard or read something that landed so densely in your body that you sprang up to a sitting position in bed because you...
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Mouthful of Soul
- Apr 23, 2020
- 2 min
Coming Out to Yourself: A Psychic Phenom
You are not alone. Fears you may have of rejection, damnation, discrimination, embarrassment and self-distrust are felt by nearly every...
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Mouthful of Soul
- Apr 23, 2020
- 2 min
Better Food Habits Start in Your Brain
Weight loss starts in your brain. Changing food habits is a head game. Here’s why. Experts suggest it takes at least twenty-one days. I...
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Mouthful of Soul
- Apr 16, 2020
- 2 min
Somebody Bring Me Some Water
Prescripts for drinking 8 glasses of water a day for overall health is not a new concept. What if water could cure cancer, obesity,...
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Mouthful of Soul
- Apr 14, 2020
- 2 min
No More Martyr Mentality
Within a few hours I was on the receiving end of two different women’s postings expressing pain of female martyrdom. The two women are...
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Mouthful of Soul
- Apr 8, 2020
- 2 min
Can We Lose the Labels & the Weight!
To date I’ve lost over 1000 lbs. That doesn’t make me a success story or hero any more than it makes me a yo-yo dieter. I’ve gained over...
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Mouthful of Soul
- Apr 8, 2020
- 2 min
The Binge Cycle
We enter into young adulthood and have our first sexual experiences and that sometimes becomes the baseline for how all other...
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Mouthful of Soul
- Apr 8, 2020
- 2 min
Questioning Label-Craziness
Why does our culture find it comforting to assign labels to behavior or emotion or status? Do people feel better naming things? Does that...
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