The Ability to Have Gratitude on this Thanksgiving Day

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As I think about the year I recovered from my crazy-making relationship with food and the first time I ate Thanksgiving dinner listening to my body, I marvel at how that ability gave back the holiday that is meant to be a celebration of gratitude. Today I celebrate gratitude each and every day, some days … Read more

What Is Death?

This morning my gifted NIA teacher, facilitated a dance of honor to a fellow NIA dancer who has recently passed. It was a graceful, exhilarating, powerful experience.  This woman will live forever with us, her spirit alive, dancing freely in her brightly colored clothing, with her neon hair. She is and we are embracing her … Read more

Love Letter to Your Body

In order to encourage coming into partnership with your body, I ask my clients to write a love letter to their bodies.  This is met with some apprehension.  A love letter?  Haven’t their bodies been a source of pain and shame, growing lumps and bumps all over the place, or at least threatening to?       … Read more

I Saw Geneen in Seattle over the Weedend!

Notice I’m on first name basis with my hero. That’s right, in my head anyway. There were 850 women there to see Geneen Roth, the woman who saved my life by writing about her own experience with food. Wow! Opps, I just remembered there were 848 women and 2 men. I love it that the … Read more

Emotional Eating: Stopping the Compulsion to Binge or Overeat

collaborative piece by  Kristen Maus, Anna Magruder and Devin Bernard

My clients inspire me. Namaste. I acknowledge the teacher in you as you acknowledge the teacher in me. To make sure I was using the term “namaste” correctly, though I’ve been using it for years, just this moment I looked it up in Wikipedia. This meaning, how I think of namaste, wasn’t quite there, but … Read more

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