Cut the circuit – Rewire your brain
For 10 seconds… look around you and watch out for everything that is brown.Done it? Well now, tell me anything RED that you saw.Now for another 10 seconds, look around you and watch out for everything that is red. It is quite likely that you see more red now then during the first round, because […]
The Need for Love and Connection
Tony Robbins outlines the 6 human needs at the basis of everything we do. One of them is the need for Love & Connection. What follows are my reflections on this particular need and how it impacts our relationships with ourselves, others and even food and body.The need for Love and Connection is a need […]
Who is your support team?
Making a change in your diet or lifestyle is a personal decision, but it definitely gets easier if you feel supported by your surroundings, especially by the people close to you. On the other hand, being surrounded by people who constantly put obstacles in your way might make it very hard or even impossible for you to reach […]
Are we really able to manifest our desires?
A lot has been said about “the power of manifestation” and how you can create your own reality just through your thoughts and imagination. The idea is that whatever you believe subconsciously will be attracted into your life and cannot help but manifest in the outer world. Many books have been written to teach people […]
Finding your inner anchor
We all have a need for security and stability in our lives. The difference is how important this need is for us and how we satisfy it. We can look for stability and security outside of us: a safe home, a stable job and regular income, a long-term relationship, a large cushion of money on […]
The healing power of a pet
Pets can play a very big role in our healing process, because they help us to slow down and allow us to both give love and to receive it. Having a cat on your knees for example, forces you to sit still and to do nothing else but be with her and caress her. Hearing […]
How to deal with triggers: avoidance or confrontation?
You probably have people or situations in your life that trigger uncomfortable feelings in you. Feelings such as not being good, strong, beautiful, valuable… enough, being “too much”, too intense, too needy, too complicated…, the fear of being abandoned, powerless… Feelings that reactivate one or several of the classical childhood wounds: the wound of abandonment, […]
Soulful Eating
Today let’s look at HOW to eat for optimal health and fertility.You probably heard the term “Mindful Eating” before. I have myself used it extensively. However, I much agree with Marc David, founder of the Institute of the Psychology of Eating, when he advocates using the term “soulful eating” instead of “mindful eating”:“Mindful eating makes […]
Feel it – Deal it – Heal it
The Fertile Path is paved with feelings. A hugely important skill to learn if you want to take that path is thus to feel your feelings. That sounds so obvious, yet most of us are highly effective at doing everything we can to AVOID feeling our feelings. We eat, we don’t eat, we obsess about […]
Stop trashing your body
So many people are in pain, yet when I (or someone else) suggest(s) to them to clean up their diet from junk food and processed convenience foods in general, or from particular foods that seem to be hurting them (i.e. gluten containing bread and baked goods, dairy, coffee, alcohol, certain spices, too much fruit…), their […]
