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Overeating and difficulties maintaining healthy routines are common pitfalls for high achieving busy women with a lot going on. Stress, the multiple activities we juggle, the standards we set for ...

Women Entrepreneurs: Are Struggles With Overeating and Weight Keeping You From Your A-Game?

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Just thinking about shaping up, losing weight, or eating healthier makes many women exhausted. Changing habits is hard work, but sometimes we approach healthy lifestyle changes in the most ...

5 Easy Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle

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As you start the New Year and a new decade, it’s a good time to give your business success skills a quick check up. Do you have what it takes to get you where you want to go? As you review ...

Business Owner’s Check Up: Is Stress Limiting Your Entrepreneurial Potential?

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Self care and me time are simply not indispensable. In fact, making time for yourself is actually an essential ingredient if you want to thrive in your life and your business. Here are four ...

Making Time for Yourself can Improve Your Business, Life

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New Year's resolutions tend to fizzle after the first six weeks of the year and attempts to make healthy lifestyle changes often die on the vine. One of the biggest stumbling blocks for many busy ...

Self Care: Making Time to Take Better Care of Yourself

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If you are an emotional eater, an overeater, a compulsive eater or a constant snacker, you’re probably also an expert dieter. Most women don’t just struggle to lose weight once. We struggle to ...

Losing Weight--4 Questions to Ask Before You Try to Do It, Again

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Are you looking for more ease in your life? Do you wish things flowed better? I don’t have a magic solution for you, but I do know a simple tool that, when leveraged, makes life smoother and more ...

Grateful Living

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‘Tis the season for overindulging and weight gain. In fact, Americans gain more weight during November and December than during any other time of year. Want to stay on track with healthy eating ...

How to Stay on Track with Healthy Eating and Weight Over the Holidays

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We all know the stress of too much on our plates–too much to do, too much to think about, too many things and people and responsibilities to take care of. Whether you choose to have a lot on ...

4 Tips For Taking Control of Stress Before It Takes Control of You, Your Life, or Your Eating

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One of the biggest triggers for emotional eating is anger. Eating when we’re angry, frustrated, irritated, feeling like we’ve been treated unfairly—we may call it different names, but these words ...

Do You Speak or Eat Your Mind?

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Do you find yourself stress eating, comfort eating or even boredom eating during your workday? That’s emotional eating–eating that we do that is triggered by feelings or desires or needs—not a ...

How to Avoid Stress Eating At Your Desk

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We all know that exercise is good for us and many of us are trying to boost our activity level. I feel very lucky to have found ways of being active that don’t just work for me—they help me ...

Five Tips to Sabotage ANY Exercise Plan

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To get on track with your healthy lifestyle goals? Lately I’ve been encountering many women who tell me they don’t. I’ve been hearing from women who are incredibly frustrated with their eating ...

Balancing Work, Life, and Yourself: Do You Have Time To Stop Overeating?

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Overwhelm is something that we can’t always avoid, and it can be a major trigger for emotional eating, overeating, or bingeing. While it’s great to have strategies for staying out of overwhelm, ...

Coping With Overwhelm, 15 Minutes at a Time, Without Emotional Eating

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Do you overeat when you are stressed or tired or overwhelmed? Do you flop down exhausted at the end of the day feeling like there is never enough time for you? Despite your best intentions, do you ...

Is Martyrdom Fueling Your Overeating?

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There are so many good tips and tools and strategies that can help us live a fuller, more authentic and meaningful life. Tips that can lower our stress, help us lose weight, prevent being ...

Tips for Implementing All Those "Best Life" Tips

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There is a big difference between knowing what you want and asking for it. There is also an important distinction between asking and hinting. Unfortunately, many of us were raised in a culture ...

Getting What You Want and Need: 5 Tips On Asking

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There are lots of possible triggers for overeating and emotional eating. Many people turn to food when they feel dissatisfied or trapped or unhappy — when life isn’t working the way they want it ...

Emotional Eating and Asking For What You Want

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You have a lot on your plate and a lot of things that are important to you. You've decided that you want to make health or lifestyle changes and spend more of your valuable energy on yourself. You ...

Are You Busy Reinventing the Wheel When You Could Be Enjoying Success?

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A question I am asked all the time is, "How can I possibly take better care of myself when there is so much else I have to do?" My busy clients tell me all the time that they have too much going ...

Take Better Care of Yourself: Have Some Pie

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As we all know, Oprah Winfrey isn't the only smart, successful woman who struggles with food, weight and emotional eating. I work with many clients who have accomplished tremendous things but who ...

Why Smart, Successful Women Struggle With Food, Weight and Emotional Eating

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Bad days are a part of life. We all have them. No matter how many yoga classes you attend or how smoothly your life runs, you’ll run up against one sooner or later. The secret to thriving is ...

How To Recover From a Bad Day

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Do you overeat when you feel like life is out of control, when you feel overwhelmed, or when you feel stressed? Examining the way you approach the issue of control in your life can have a ...

Do You Overeat When Life Feels “Out of Control?”

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Recently, someone told me about an opportunity she almost missed because it had never occurred to her that the thing she wanted to do was possible. Her story was a good reminder that sometimes, if ...

Opportunity, Possibility, and Living Your Best Life

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A client just asked: “I know I use for comfort and to soothe myself. What can I do instead?” That is such a common question—and one that can be so difficult to answer–especially in the moment. ...

Melissa McCreery PhD ACC commented on Melissa McCreery PhD ACC's post Using Comfort Strategies To Replace Emotional Eating

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A client just asked: “I know I use for comfort and to soothe myself. What can I do instead?” That is such a common question—and one that can be so difficult to answer–especially in the moment. ...

Using Comfort Strategies To Replace Emotional Eating

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If you’ve identified an inner perfectionist, here are five strategies for getting it out of your way before it sabotages your weight loss plan or triggers emotional eating. 1. Separate yourself ...

Five Ways to Keep Perfectionism From Sabotaging Your Weight Loss

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Perfectionism is a very tempting trap to fall into. For those who are prone to it, the idea that it is possible to get everything “just right” is a very seductive standard to shoot for. The truth ...

Emotional Eating and Perfectionism: 5 Signs of Trouble

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Last week I held a free tele-seminar and had the opportunity to answer some great questions about coping with overwhelming feelings, how to get motivated to exercise, and tips for dealing with ...

Mindsets That Sabotage Success With Emotional Eating