I’m a firm believer in living in the moment whenever possible — not overthinking things, not focusing on what you don’t currently have, staying very present in the current moment so that you can enjoy it as much as possible. My emphasis on this is even stronger when our kids are involved. Kids live in [...]

This has taken me a while to write about, but I wanted to give my thoughts on what treats really are and how we should healthfully handle them.
I firmly believe that we as humans need treats, need little indulgences and good things that aren’t everyday things in our lives so that we continue to enjoy [...]

On a mailing list for moms that I subscribe to, the discussion is currently focused on protectiveness. It’s as if biologically, once you become a mother, your brain gets hard-wired to be protective — not just about your own child, but about children everywhere. One woman even suggested that just watching the news has become [...]

In times of stress, it’s super easy to fall into “woe is me” mode. I say that somewhat flippantly, but I don’t actually mean it that way at all. It is easy, too easy, in fact, to think about all that we’re not enjoying at a particular time in our lives. These sorts of feelings [...]

Someone I care about who isn’t exactly on the same wavelength as me (and shall remain nameless) has often told me about all the hardships involved with particular tasks that just so happen to be good for you. Running, he says, is really bad for your joints. Eating right means giving up life’s pleasures. Getting [...]

We all have things in our lives that bother us (some of us more than others), and health and weight issues often come into play. If you’ve been struggling to find motivation lately, ask yourself this:
What are you tolerating? What is it that has been bugging you at some level in your life that you’ve [...]

The other day I was working with a client who told me she had trouble staying focused on eating healthy. It turned out that she actually has eaten fairly well for a long time and simply isn’t sure if she has reaped any rewards yet.I encouraged her to come up with some way of tracking [...]

I write and talk a lot about how making small, incremental changes work, and I wanted to share some rather surprising insights I noticed just today about that very thing.
I recently started showing my son Alex a video designed to teach him basic words in a really cool way. The first video in this program [...]

If you find yourself at times wondering if this healthy eating stuff really works, let me say this: You might be suffering from analysis paralysis. This is something that I’ve noticed is a common thread in several of my coaching clients — a proclivity to analyze the basic diet I recommend (Dr. Fuhrman’s Eat to [...]

I work with a few clients for whom fear is a daily problem, and it ends up affecting how they eat. No, fear isn’t necessarily related to nutrition, but it can be closely connected to how you behave around food and therefore can significantly impact how healthfully you eat. In fact, I personally believe that [...]