I wanted to let everyone know that Donna Gates is doing another Certified Body Ecologist training in beautiful Whitesburg, Georgia – just outside of Atlanta – in August. I highly recommend this training for several reasons: You will learn how your body works – what can go wrong and how to fix it. You will [...]
Archive for June, 2006
How To Spot The Stages of Imbalance
When I first started out in my recovery, there was very little information about what happens to the body in recovery. I even found that many people with experience in healthcare for eating disorders didn’t know how to guide me on what my body might go through. Recently, I wrote to some researchers at bulimiaguide.org [...]
Airbrushing and Other Illusions
I grew up with parents who liked to antique, so many of my childhood vacations were spent in New England towns, rather than beaches. Because of this, I never really knew what real women’s bodies were supposed to look like – thinking what I saw in magazines was “real.” It’s not surprising that I would [...]
How to Use Fear To Your Advantage – An Inner Dialog
What really got me to start thinking seriously about recovery is little things going wrong with my health. None of them alone were a big deal – more the kind of things you might take over the counter drugs for. But together, they made me feel like I was getting “old” too soon. And really, [...]
What I Eat Each Day — Or, How To Feel More Grounded With Food
Emily asked me to describe what a typical day’s meals look like for me, so I will share that in this post. First, I want to mention that since following the Body Ecology system of healing, I have felt more grounded in mind, body and spirit than ever before. This is not about deprivation at [...]
Following Your Heart’s Desire When You Are Currently Living The Opposite
Yesterday, I did a post on being happy all the time. In that post, I shared that a large part of my recovery was about starting to live my life according to my heart’s desire – what I truly wanted to do – and more importantly, how I wanted to BE. Any time we go [...]
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