Tag: wellness
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Dealing with disappointment

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” Henry David Thoreau We somehow find us ourselves at the start of another year (is it just me or has time sped up)? And for many of us, we’ll be experiencing a fair bit of disappointment this month. Whether it’s…
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Love heals (literally)

“Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth” Aldous Huxley, writer and philosopher. “It’s coming on Christmas” as Joni Mitchell sings and for most of us this is a time of coming together…
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Emotional eating -a little morsel (part 2)

“The way we feel about ourselves, will influence how we feed ourselves” Linda Cundy, attachment psychotherapist. Welcome back folks to my second little bite into the topic of emotional eating. Last month I covered the what and the why and so this month I want to cover how we can manage our cravings for food…
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Emotional eating- a little morsel (part 1)

“Eating patterns are directly connected with emotional issues arising both from childhood and from current stresses” Gabor Mate Our relationship with food begins from the very start of our life. Afterall we can’t survive without nourishment. Food quickly becomes entwinned with our caregivers and early life experiences. Psychotherapist, Julia Samuel describes food as the one…