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Are you one of the 16 million Americans who suffer from depression, or one of the approximately 32 million who experience anxiety or stress? It has been estimated that by the year 2020, [...]

If you are reading this you are probably struggling with exercise addiction, have searched for help and have struggled to find it. The statistics on my blog written about exercise addiction made [...]

It is the holiday season and although that certainly doesn’t mean that you should completely ‘let go’ it is a good time for your mind & body to get some much needed rest and [...]

I’ve worked with SO many clients around developing awareness. Many of the things I’ve done in the past has helped but clients have continued to struggle with immediate focus to [...]

If you were to look in the dictionary one of the definitions of habit states that it is an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary. Acquired means your [...]

Helping clients identify and re-route impulsive behavior based on mood can be challenging. Humans have many learned set behaviors that come about as coping mechanisms through life experience. [...]

A friend trained a full year to do an Ironman triathlon. At the conclusion of her event she had a conversation with me about her depression, weight gain, irritability, and lack of energy. My [...]

Last week I talked a little bit about exercise addiction which is also clinically referred to as activity anorexia which is also very similar to anorexia. Either of these can be triggered not [...]

Addiction and the brain Compulsive behaviors like compulsive shopping, pathological lying, shoplifting, gambling, overeating, over exercising or obsessions with sex can be trigger by genetic [...]

This is a two part blog series on exercise addiction. I’ve done a lot of work around people who deviate from exercise and now I am going to steer the conversation around people who are [...]