Category Archive: zen of recovery

Oct
11

How to Be More Patient

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What even is patience? We spend so much time quoting the virtues of patience, yet most of us find ourselves extremely impatient. According to wikipedia, patience is the state of endurance under difficult circumstances, and is studied as a decision making problem, involving the choice of either a small reward in the short term, or …

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Oct
06

Hypnosis for Binge Eating

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Download Hypnosis  for Binge Eating             As a therapist who also utilizes hypnotherapy in my practice, I often receive phone calls for people wanting hypnotherapy to help cure their binge eating. Many people want long term Psychotherapy to understand and heal the family dynamics and past wounds that contributed to …

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Jul
12

Practicing Slowing Down– How to start mindful eating

    One of the easiest exercises that you can you do to help you let go of binge eating is practicing mindful eating. The first step in eating mindfully is to slow down.  When you serve yourself a meal, don’t pick or snack until you are sitting down with your plate in front of …

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Apr
13

Life Is Hard

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“Life is Difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.  It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.  Once we truly see that life is difficult – once we truly understand and accept it – then life is no longer difficult.  Because once it is …

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Jan
04

Bingeing Consciously

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I was reading this post by Chevese Underhill Turner, the founder of BEDA (Binge Eating Disorder Association) and remembered why binge eating is such an incredibly useful coping tool.  Binge eating is one of the quickest, easiest ways to completely shut down without going to sleep or taking a drug.  It’s not that different for …

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Aug
02

The Zen of Recovery– Using Meditation to help Binge Eating Disorder

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Meditation can be a very effective way to help binge eating disorder.

Jul
29

Focusing on the Negative

So much of eating disorders is fueled by focusing on the negative. By negative, I mean what we don’t have. There is always this sense of “I would be better if i were thinner, if I had more money, if I had a boyfriend, if I had a baby, if I had new car, if …

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