Articles tagged with Mental Health
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Does Thinking Your Way Out of An Overeating Episode Really Work?
Clara told us she was really struggling to lose weight. We asked her if she had an idea of what was going wrong. She said that every night after dinner she would get this feeling that she just needed to have “a little something”. The trouble is, she always ended up having more than a little. So [...]
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Transform 2012 Doom & Gloom: Interview with Sandra Ingerman
Have you heard about the new documentary, Apocalypse 2012, examining the growing phenomenon of those who are convinced that life as we know it will end December 21, 2012? This week I had the pleasure of meeting with Sandra Ingerman to discuss her latest book, How to Thrive in Changing Times. Sandra is a Shamanic researcher and [...]
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The Beneficial Intent
I remember when I first understood beneficial intent. For me it was a eureka moment. Therefore I want to share the idea with you and hope I you will also have some benefit from it. If you think that everything you do, and I mean everything you do, has an initial benefit linked to it, then you can understand [...]
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Book Review: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Your Route Out of Perfectionism, Self-Sabotage And Other Everyday Habits
I first came across the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Your Route Out of Perfectionism, Self-sabotage and Other Everyday Habits last year and I thought it was a brilliant read. I am more into NLP than CBT having had a very poor CBT based therapy back in 2005 that I found very hard to work with but [...]
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Can You Imagine It ?
When I spend a lot of time with people 1-2-1, I am always looking for why they do what they do. People don't randomly do things. There will always be a good reason (to them) that they have a particular behaviour or characteristic. Therefore, one technique I use is the "As If" technique. You can do [...]
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The Balanced Life
The key to being happy and also being slim is a balanced life. It means that everything in your life is where you want it to be and at an appropriate level. When leading a normal, busy life it is common for parts of your life to get out of balance with each other. For [...]
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Depression Linked To Obesity
There was an study released that has linked depression to obesity: "We found that in a sample of young adults during a 15-year period, those who started out reporting high levels of depression gained weight at a faster rate than others in the study, but starting out overweight did not lead to changes in depression," [...]
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Letter To Yourself
Please don't read this exercise below and think it sounds good but then don't do it. I promise you this is so useful and really can help you but does need about half an hour's effort to do it. I hope you do give it a go and let me know how you get on, [...]
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Keeping the weight off doesn’t have to be the nightmare you think it is.
by Maria's Last Diet Question: When it comes to keeping the weight off, what is easy to lose and hard to come by? Answer: Self-esteem. What’s the connection between self-esteem and keeping the weight off? Definition: Self-esteem: A belief about how worthwhile you are. Your self-esteem is rooted in caring deeply about various personal characteristics of yours that are important [...]
