New Year's Resolutions (and mental health)

If the answer to weight loss or exercise or healthy eating was as easy as "just doing it", we would be a healthy, active, veggie-l...

New Year's Resolutions: Challenging your thoughts!

This may sound like hewey (the technical term for bullshit) but research is confirming the power and influence our thoughts have . In keepin...

Health, Fitness, (and that stupid new year resolution)!

Do not judge your future success by your past.  Do it differently, change your process and you will change the results .  Before Christmas I...

Is Food Addiction Real?

   Over the past six months I have been working on my thesis for my masters degree in clinical counselling. I was interested in looking at o...

Long Term Weight Loss Impossible (researchers say)

 This morning, as I was perusing the dailies on CBC.ca, my stomach flipped as I read the latest headline; "Obesity Research Confirms, L...

Childless by Choice

 When I was a kid, I remember getting my first doll.  She was nothing like you see today ( no skanky outfit or heavy makeup ) just a pillow ...

Happiness; What "they" don't want you to know!

Ya. I thought that title may add a bit of intrigue to my post today. Although "they" could easily represent every company that mak...

From Gucci to Gardening

It used to be I would enjoy spending ( literally ) thousands of dollars on shoes, new wardrobes, hair products and services, and self-help b...

Ode to my BeBe

Pugs are not only hilarious, but sophisticated and laid back . After 15 years of reading about them, studying them, learning about their tra...

The Changing Tastes of Age

I recently "celebrated" my 46th birthday. It used to be I would look forward to dinner out followed by a group of us taking advant...

There's a Fine Line Between Weight Loss and Eating Disorder

Yes, I haven't posted much since December. Yes, I have been busy with work and my internship as a clinical counsellor.  However, I have ...