Old-paradigm psychology can try to convince us that unwanted habits are caused by a need to feel loved or safe or cared for. It can feel like we're using food, or other substances, to soothe or
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Overeating
Why Your Habit Proves You’re In Perfect Working Order
So often we demonize our bad habits. But what if those habits are working to bring us messages about our perfect human
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Follow-up To Last Week’s Coaching Call
Last week, on episode 53 of Unbroken, Tania Elfersy coached me around my overeating habit and the return of that habit
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It’s Not All On You with Tania Elfersy
You've heard me struggle for the past few months because I've had a relapse into my overeating habit. I finally wised
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Can we cultivate insight?
Insight creates change. This I know for sure. Not willpower. Not restriction. Not even information. Insight. But what
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Q&A 49 – Noise Vs. Signal In Weight Loss
When we're looking to change an overeating habit we can innocently get caught up in the noise in our heads that talks
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Q&A 48 – What does being calm have to do with weight-loss?
In this excerpt from It's Not About the Food I share a story about the surprising thing I learned at an Equus training
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Q&A 47 – How our thinking is like a television
It can be so easy to get caught up in the drama of life and experience suffering because of this. But when we begin to
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Q&A 46 – New Year’s Resolutions Are BS
When we expect change to happen as a result of will-power naturally it looks like a good idea to choose a day on the
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Q&A 44 – How are weight-loss strategies like an ice pick?
When we're trying to change something like an overeating habit, it can feel good to take lots of action. But how many
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