Emotional childhood occurs when we don’t take responsibility for managing our feelings.

Most of us act from a place of emotional childhood at certain times in our lives, often emotional childhood shows itself in our relationships, but it can also appear in relation to how we are...

Understanding how your brain affects your thoughts, your emotions, and your ability to act is a huge ‘must do’ if you want to live your best life.

In simplified terms, you have two parts to your brain. Your prefrontal cortex can make all your dreams come true. It can decide...

There are multiple studies and experiments that demonstrate the impact of lack of sleep on our waist line. Despite this, too few of us are getting enough. Today I explain why lack of sleep can hinder your weight loss and suggest some tips for how you can get regular restful sleep if that is...

When you invest in a life coach you are investing in yourself. That is, if you are investing in a life, health and weight coach, you’re investing in your physical and mental wellness.

What possible better investment could you make?

Of all the things you can do in your life, of...

Yesterday I wrote about how stepping on the scales to weigh yourself can be an opportunity to observe your thinking, and the feeling your thoughts create.

Today I would like to stick with focusing on thinking and look more closely at thoughts vs. facts or as I call them, circumstances.

I am feeling plagued by overwhelm today.

Overwhelm is an emotion. I have quite a few thoughts that frequently generate the feeling of overwhelm in me.

For me it’s usually associated with thoughts about having too much to do and not enough time to get it done. These thoughts...

Chances are that if you have been struggling to lose weight for a while you are familiar with experiencing an array of emotions when you get on the scales. I can remember the anticipation of a slimming club weigh in. In fact, I would only go when I lost weight because I felt such shame if I had...

There are as many ‘right diets’ as there are people on the planet. The right diet for me will not be the right diet for you. What’s right for you will depend on your life stage, genetics, life-style and much more.

I work closely with my clients to determine what is the...

It is so easy to overeat in the world that we live in. Our culture, psychology and neurobiology all play a part and have contributed to the simple fact that overeating is ‘normal’.

It’s normal to eat cake when someone brings it into the office because it is their...

My mentor and coach, Brooke Castillo, teaches the concept of massive action.

One example of massive action that she suggested to one of her clients who was single and wanted to be married, is that they should commit to going on 200 first dates. By committing to such massive action, they...