Is health promotion really healthy?

Although this disordered type of eating has yet to be added to the diagnostic manuals, a strict focus on eating healthy can be harmful to yo...

Sweet, Sweet Detox

  Recently, over the last year, I have been focused on research relating to food addiction.  I am in the final stages of my MA in clinical p...

Maybe disconnection is the first step to better health?

Today I was reading an article on CBC.ca that focused on the growing addiction of smart phones, blackberries, hand helds, or whatever you wa...

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...