This year marks the 20th anniversary of my first book, Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind Body Approach to Nutrition and Well Being, published back in 1991. It’s still in print, still sells internationally, and the publisher – Random House – believes in its timeless message. About 10 years before I wrote…
The Missing Ingredient in Nutrition
Have you noticed that there’s a huge number of diet books, nutrition systems, and eating experts telling us what to do – and that they’re all saying something dramatically different? What’s even more fascinating, those experts are offering scientific proof of why their approach works best. Who’s right? How can…
Renew Your Relationship with Food
When I first studied meditation in my late teens, my teacher would have us sit and meditate for 2 hours. It was excruciating. Despite this rigorous amount of time, he had one interesting little trick that always caught my attention. At about 5 minutes before the 2-hour period was about…
Metabolism Lessons from the Sea Turtle
It often amazes how many people I meet who say they want a faster metabolism. The promise seems to be that the faster one’s metabolism is, the more you’ll be a lean, mean, calorie-burning machine with the ability to conquer the world with an abundance of energy and a hot…
Do you want way more pleasure with food?
So many people love food, love the pleasure of food, and in an ideal galaxy, would love to have a lot more pleasurable foods coming through the pipeline. This makes perfect sense, as we are literally and physiologically built for pleasure. All organisms on the planet, be they lion, lizard,…
Deepening Into Healing
Of all the important tools and tricks and deeper understandings I have ever learned about psychology and the human experience, the all important nugget of wisdom that I never saw in any textbook was this: We are profoundly sensitive and fragile. And perhaps way more so than we’d like to…
Celebrate Food – Really…
I was approached this week by a major magazine and was asked to be interviewed on holiday eating. Specifically, they’re writing an article on how people binge and overeat and go crazy with food during Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. “How to stop people from gorging themselves” is the basic…
