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ARTArticleDay 1 of Healthy Eating GiftsDay 1 of the 12 Days of Healthy Eating Gifts brought to you by WiseHeart Wellness WorldWider Treating food addiction and compulsive eating Welcome to your first Healthy Eating gift. Today you are receiving a couple of special renovations to your “to do” list. First, one side of your list will now become your "Choose To Do List.” Why is this an upgrade? Because when we consciously choose to do something, we create a more positive mind set and a better chemical environment in our brains and bodies. Stress and negativity diminish and performance and enjoyment increase.ARTArticleDay 10 of Healthy Eating GiftsDay 10 of the 12 Days of Healthy Eating Gifts brought to you by WiseHeart Wellness WorldWider Treating food addiction and compulsive eating Welcome to your tenth Healthy Eating gift. Eatings can trigger a lot of obsession and compulsion. So today we want to give you some ideas on how to accept these gifts that your brain and body may be bringing to you.ARTArticleDay 11 of Healthy Eating GiftsDay 11 of the 12 Days of Healthy Eating Gifts brought to you by WiseHeart Wellness WorldWider Treating food addiction and compulsive eating We will break the types of craving down into 4 groupings and discuss the sources and solutions for them.ARTArticleDay 12 of Healthy Eating GiftsDay 12 of the 12 Days of Healthy Eating Gifts brought to you by WiseHeart Wellness WorldWider Treating food addiction and compulsive eating Welcome-- To your 12th and last healthy eating gift. Today you are receiving a mindful eating program and a motivational powerpoint to help you break free of compulsive eating and creating the life you want.ARTArticleDay 2 of Healthy Eating GiftsDay 2 of the 12 Days of Healthy Eating Gifts brought to you by WiseHeart Wellness WorldWider Treating food addiction and compulsive eating One of the most important preparations for eating a meal is the preparation to be calm, no matter what happens at the mall or in the kitchen. Here are 2 easy exercises to increase your ease right now. Standing Mountain Pose or Tadasana ARTArticleDay 3 of Healty Eating GiftsDay 3 of the 12 Days of Healthy Eating Gifts brought to you by WiseHeart Wellness WorldWider Treating food addiction and compulsive eating Welcome to your third Healthy Eating gift. Today you are receiving some brain chemistry basics that can make a tremendous difference in your experience and your actions. Brain chemistry is what determines how you perceive and interpret situations, what thoughts and behaviors you choose and indeed whether or not you can actually execute them. In addition how easily you get tired, or confused or depressed or frustrated.ARTArticleDay 4 of Healthy Eating GiftsDay 4 of the 12 Days of Healthy Eating Gifts brought to you by WiseHeart Wellness WorldWider Treating food addiction and compulsive eating Welcome, to your fourth Healthy Eating gift. This one will be filled with drinks and desserts! Yes, really. During special events we don't want you to spend it feeling deprived or over indulging in things that make you feel bad. So what's the other choice?ARTArticleDay 5 of Healthy Eating GiftsDay 5 of the 12 Days of Healthy Eating Gifts brought to you by WiseHeart Wellness WorldWider Treating food addiction and compulsive eating Welcome, to your fifth Healthy Eating gift. A FREE COACHING SESSION We are talking about support today and I know we talk a lot about it everyday, but especially during the Eatings support is crucial and can make the difference between enjoying and enduring the experience.r ARTArticleDay 6 of Healthy Eating GiftsDay 6 of the 12 Days of Healthy Eating Gifts brought to you by WiseHeart Wellness WorldWider Treating food addiction and compulsive eating Welcome, to your sixth Healthy Eating gift. No Eating would be complete without the gift that everyone really wants - that would be brain research! Okay maybe I am the only one with that on their wish list, but after you check this out you will be thankful for it.ARTArticleDay 7 of Healthy Eating GiftsDay 7 of the 12 Days of Healthy Eating Gifts brought to you by WiseHeart Wellness WorldWider Treating food addiction and compulsive eating Welcome to your seventh Healthy Eating gift. Today is the gift of spirit from many traditions. Please take what fits for you and leave the rest. We at WiseHeart believe strongly in the development of a spiritual component to heal our relationship with body, eating and bringing food back into its' sacred context.ARTArticleDay 8 of Healthy Eating GiftsDay 8 of the 12 Days of Healthy Eating Gifts brought to you by WiseHeart Wellness WorldWider Treating food addiction and compulsive eating Welcome, to your eighth Healthy Eating gift. An i-gift of information and identification. Information about what is really happening with us as we move through the experience of compulsive, addictive is vitally important as is identification with others sharing the problem.ARTArticleDay 9 of Healthy Eating GiftsDay 9th of the 12 Days of Healthy Eating Gifts brought to you by WiseHeart Wellness WorldWider Treating food addiction and compulsive eating Welcome to your ninth Healthy Eating gift. We want to share with you the top 5 challenges our clients face in relationships and our top 5 strategies to help navigate them. The Eatings can put an extra strain on relationships, but they can also provide an extra opportunity for enhancing them too. Here's what we've found;ARTArticleDe-Stress using the Emotional Freedom TechniqueScience does not recognize anything that isn’t logical or concrete, that is why a lot of doctors and medical practitioners shun the emotional freedom technique to be pseudoscientific and one that is rather ambiguous. Ambiguous or not, emotional freedom technique is on the contrary, showing great results in treatment of psychological-based disorders. An alte ate form of psychotherapy and proceeding from the notion of the body’s ability to heal itself (natural healing), emotional freedom technique or EFT basically works by tapping at the energy centers in the body.ARTArticleDeclare Peace on DrugsI have been reading a lot of things about the drug gang violence in Mexico and along our border. I am also seeing the most unlikely people coming out against the “war on drugs,” such as police chiefs and, most recently, Tom Tancredo. I have been counseling people with addictions for over 26 ...ARTArticleDepression and Job LossDepression, Anxiety and Panic Attacks are very similar and in some ways interconnected. Depression may be described as feeling sad, blue, unhappy, miserable, or down in the dumps. Most of us feel this way at one time or another for short periods. A true clinical description is a mood disorder in which feelings of sadness, loss, anger, or frustration interfere with everyday life for an extended period of time. Symptoms Include: -Trouble sleeping or excessive sleeping -A dramatic change in appetite, often with weight gain or loss -Fatigue and lack of energy ARTArticleDo Narcissists Have Friends?Question: Do narcissists have friends? Answer: Not in the usual sense of the word and not that they know of. The narcissist is one track minded. He is interested in securing the provision of Narcissistic Supply emanating from Narcissistic Supply Sources. His world is as narrow as an ant's, to ...ARTArticleDo you Want an Easier Way to Achieve Your Goals?Remember that middle-school essay writing tradition: “What I did on my Summer Vacation?” Today’s blog is my adult version of that exercise: What I learned at Summer Camp 2012 – An Easier Way to Achieve Your Goals. Did you think I was kidding about the summer camp part? I did actually spend a weekend at a camp for adults. It was a joyful whirlwind of volleyball, trapeze, obstacle course, ping pong, and even a little bit of learning how to play Texas Hold’em poker. Big fun.ARTArticleDo you Want to Command Respect?“What if they think my comment isn’t smart?” “Is the answer to my question in the materials they distributed or explained in a prior meeting?” “I don’t think I have as much experience as they think I do, I better not state my idea with conviction - this way I have an out if my recommendations don’t turn out to be right.” That’s what Michael told me was on his mind when he decided not to speak up in the meeting with his boss, his colleagues, and their prospects.ARTArticleDo you want to turn obstacles into opportunities?Over the last few months, I gave a number of trainings at companies like Procter and Gamble, Pfizer, and GE so I had a chance to talk to a lot of business professionals like you. One of the themes I heard was the importance of turning obstacles into opportunity. According to Accenture (2010), 71% of senior executives say it is the trait they are looking for in making retention and promotion choices. Business owners who can do this well keep their business afloat in difficult times.ARTArticleDon't Let Myths Keep You From Getting SoberI keep hearing the same old myths over and over again. And I can't help but think that others hearing these myths either believe them and give up or use them for excuses to avoid taking action on getting clean and sober. One of the myths that I hear daily is that you can't get sober for someone else, that you have to want it for yourself, or your recovery efforts won't work. This statement is both true and false. The idea that you can't get sober for someone else is completely wrong. People do it every day.ARTArticleDrop Out to DistinctionIn 1986, I decided to drop out of high school and see what the world had to offer. This led to learning how to be a waitress and bartender and working at two excellent resorts. I traveled to Japan and taught English and while I was there, my love for learning was reignited. You see,for me,if I ...In 1986, I decided to drop out of high school and see what the world had to offer. This led to learning how to be a waitress and bartender and working at two excellent resorts. I traveled to Japan and taught English and while I was there, my love for learning was reignited.ARTArticleEffects Of Anxiety On Our Daily LivesThe term anxiety is generally used to describe a person’s reaction to a stressful event. It is normal to feel a surge of nervousness before a major life-altering event, but constant worrying leads to chronic anxiety disorder (when anxiety reaches an extreme high level). People suffering from chronic anxiety disorder are jittery and find themselves constantly worrying about things, more than it is otherwise required.ARTArticleEntrepreneurship in ActionWould you enjoy being an entrepreneur? Are you prepared to deal with the rewards and challenges? although many entrepreneurs "fell into" their roles, the fact that you're interested in studying entrepreneurship and trying to learn all you can about it. Part of that education is understanding the upside and downside of entrepreneurship. There are many rewards associated with being an entrepreneur! many individuals pursue entpreneurship primarily because of the high degree of independence that it allows them.ARTArticleExploring the Fear of JudgementAll weight problems are simply a reflection of a lack of balance within. That’s all. Emotionally and physically you’re out of balance. Your priorities are skewed and they need to be tweaked so that you really embody the belief that your needs and your health are the most important things in your world. Now, rather than feeling “outed” by this statement and that everyone you meet is going to “know” you’re out of balance, could you allow yourself instead to just accept the truth of it?ARTArticleExploring the Issue of Self-HarmThe word "lost" appears on my lower leg, carved out in deep scar tissue. I often forget it's there these days, until I notice someone's eyes travel there, and get stuck. It's obviously self-inflicted, and I know people wonder why I would have done such a thing. It's a strange phenomenon, and I'm certainly not alone, so let's look at why so many human beings, like myself, are prone to self-harm.ARTArticleExplosive Anger Disorder/Intermittent Rage DisorderExplosive Anger Disorder! (EAD). Or, Intermittent Rage Disorder (IRD). Take your pick of labels and/or abbreviations. These are "new" labels in the lexicon of the psychologists and psychiatrists. (You should know that most such labels are made up in order to get paid by insurance companies, ...ARTArticleFamily Dynamics of Addiction And Recovery - Deciding What to do about an Adult Child's AddictionWhen an adult child with addiction problems lives with his parents, those parents are faced with hard choices. The addict believes that he is only harming himself, yet the truth is that the addiction is hurting everyone and is typically tearing the family apart. Parents and significant others of alcoholics/addicts in deciding upon a course of action must make decisions based on what they can live with. There is a huge difference between bottom lines and threats.ARTArticleFamily Dynamics of Addiction and Recovery - How Can I Tell If My Partner Is Serious about Recovery?Most spouses of alcoholics or addicts have been down this road before. Something has happened. Some crisis has gotten the attention of the alcoholic/addict and now he is motivated to get clean and sober. This time he is going to AA/NA and going to counseling. Promises made by the addict to stop the addictive behavior have gone unfulfilled in the past. Yet most of the time, when an addict is making those promises, he intends to keep them. This time is different. They mean it when they say it. That does not mean that what was stated as fact, is indeed, fact.ARTArticleFamily Dynamics of Addiction and Recovery - How Can I Tell If My Partner Is Serious About Recovery?Most spouses of alcoholics or addicts have been down this road before. Something has happened. Some crisis has gotten the attention of the alcoholic/addict and now he is motivated to get clean and sober. This time he is going to AA/NA and going to counseling. Promises made by the addict to stop ...ARTArticleFamily Dynamics of Addiction and Recovery: 14 Enabling Behaviors to Quit NowFamily members, in their attempts to solve the problem of a loved one's addiction, try every thing they can think of, to turn the addict's life back around. They usually identify the problem incorrectly for a long time before it becomes obvious to them that addiction is the real problem. ...

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