Body Vitality, Safety, & Self-Image
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Self-Acceptance Before Your Body Is Perfect
Waiting to accept the body until it is perfect turns respect into a prize the present body can never receive. What looks irrational about self acceptance often becomes understandable when we ask what the body expects and what this response has been trying to prevent. With self acceptance, the aim is not to make the…
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I Must Take Care of Them… ALL of Them!
A woman emailed us asking for suggestions. Her pattern of caring for stray animals was feeling overwhelming. It’s wonderful to care for other beings. It can help us feel loved and loving. But when we feel the need to do it compulsively and secretly, there is often something else at work. If you find yourself…
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Dressing for Yourself: Trusting Your Body and Your Taste
Clothing can become a referendum on whether we are acceptable. We may dress for a parent, partner, workplace, imagined critic, or younger version of ourselves and lose contact with the body wearing the clothes. Trusting your taste is not trivial. It is practice in sensing preference, tolerating visibility, and letting your presentation communicate something true.…
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Hope In a Box
When we feel stuck, we sometimes take the only action that feels possible… purchasing new products that promise to help us reach our goal, whatever it is. Internet Marketers often hawk the Latest and Greatest, Guaranteed to teach YOU how to make \$10k in just 3 weeks. If you need money fast, you buy. (But…
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You Can’t Handle My “No”!
A lot of us hold back from saying “No” because we don’t want to hurt the other person, or because we don’t want to face their reaction to our boundary. Learn to feel safe saying No and reclaim your inner power!
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I’m Losing My Hair!
Q&A: Dear Cathy, I’ve been losing my hair for a few years now. Will EFT help me? If so, how? I’ve been working on other issues with EFT with a great deal of success. -Art Hi Art, Tapping with EFT can help with how you feel about your hair loss , and some people find…
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Craving Sugar and Sweets
I have these intense cravings for sugar and sweets, and I want to eat healthier foods. How can I change my behavior? -Linda First, if you want to reduce your sugar cravings to help with weight loss, remember that a lot of weight issues are related to safety . Cravings won’t shift unless you feel…