Breaking Free from the Comfort Eating Cycle

“Comfort” EatingFor many, many years I stuffed my feelings. Feelings of inadequacy, feelings of failure, feeling lost & overwhelmed had me reaching for any food rather than talking about it. My first year of teaching was not a safe place to be a first-year teacher. I was ridiculed, belittled, marginalized, hurt… by a principal who

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Don’t MIND Me, Just Beating Myself Up Over Here

There I was, stopped at a stop sign waiting for my turn to go safely when BAM! I was bombarded – again. My mind was flooded with negative thoughts. “You’re so stupid. You’re a terrible person. You’re so fat and ugly. No one likes you. You’re an embarrassment…” The thoughts were relentless and seemingly out

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