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Untangle from food and weight stuff with helpful articles from First Ourselves. We offer heart centered programs to heal from overeating, sugar addiction and a negative body image.

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Overeating help: coaching call about food

by Karly on August 24, 2010

in Blog, Overeating Help

Announcing a coaching call August 26 for Forum members and participants in the Heal Overeating: Untangled program. We’ll focus on food: how to make food for clean, simple eating. Plus, how we get caught with food.
It’s time to get into the nuts and bolts of how to make healthy, whole foods, clean eating simple [...]

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How to heal the need for body perfection

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The most popular body image essay I’ve written was this piece on measuring your body in love. Do you look at your body through the eyes of the heart, or the eyes of the critic? It was a similar question I posed to an audience of women and teen girls, as speaker at a body [...]

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Sugar abstinence and creating self trust

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Yes – Overcoming Sugar Addiction, version 2, is now up for sale. What’s different? In this book, I talk about what I learned in traveling a sugar free path for the past 3 years.
Enjoy this excerpt from the updated version of Overcoming Sugar Addiction. Learn how self-trust can impact your sugar abstinence – how you [...]

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Sugar Abstinence vs. Sobriety – What’s the difference?

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Over the past few weeks I’ve been revising Overcoming Sugar Addiction. I’ve learned so much about sugar, abstinence, food, sobriety, and more since I wrote the book in 2007 – and I wanted to share these insights with you.
Here’s one insight that stands out for me:  there’s a huge difference between abstinence and sobriety.
I was [...]

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Overeating help: questions and answers call

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Today’s coaching call for participants in the Heal Overeating: Untangled program
will examine false strategies that we use to avoid pain.
I identify eight of these pain avoidance strategies in a worksheet you can download to help you make the most of the call. The reasons we overeat have much to do with our emotions, and [...]

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Overcoming Sugar Addiction book 2nd Edition update

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When I handed off the revised and expanded 2nd edition of Overcoming Sugar Addiction to the designer, it concluded a fun and revealing effort to go back to this book I wrote in 2007. Here’s some highlights of what’s new in this updated version of the ebook:

Explore 10 principles for joyful sugar free living. This [...]

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Soothe your sensitivity instead of emotional eating

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One of the ironies of healing our emotional eating is that consciously trying to eat differently – like not eating sugar or eating more mindfully – is overarousing. It’s stimulating and can cause anxiety. We have all this pent up energy from trying to be “good” while feeling terrified of slipping. It’s like walking a [...]

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Untangle from overeating with members’ coaching call

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Answer your questions and help to untangle from food and weight in a phone-based talk with me, Karly Randolph Pitman, author of Heal Overeating: Untangled in a small group setting Thursday June 15, 2010.  This marks the first of four calls for forum members that we’re holding this summer.
Call information:
The call will last an [...]

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Free coaching call on compassionate weight loss

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If you dream of a healthy, fit body, but can’t seem to do the day to day behaviors that create that body, I’m about to share the secrets to turn your intention into reality.
If you’re caught in yo-yo dieting, if you lose weight only to sabotage yourself and gain it back, if you’ve been trying [...]

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Geneen Roth: 5 Reasons to Read Women, Food & God

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I love Geneen Roth’s work. When I was first diving into my “food stuff,” her books were a lifeline that enabled me to unhook from food and weight pain.
Geneen’s latest book, Women, Food and God, is brilliant. That’s what I’ve heard from everyone who’s read it. (It’s on my reading list, too.) Many women in [...]

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How to reclaim your feminine radiance

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Note from Karly: LiYana used to be a holistic health counselor, so we bonded over our desire to help women find freedom from food and weight stuff. Today, LiYana is a writer, speaker, coach with a unique approach to helping create relationships that sizzle. In LiYana, I found a kindred spirit who digs into the [...]

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How to Lose Weight Without Dieting

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Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Heal Overeating: Untangled, a series of audio sessions and more (tools, visualizations, exercises) to help you create the relationship that you want with food and your body.
I talk a lot about how diets don’t work – and here’s why.
You must love yourself unconditionally in order to heal [...]

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Unveiling new members-only area, and techie details

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There’s a lot to be excited about in the unveiling of our new members-only area at http://members.firstourselves.com/. But there’s also some logistical details and techie stuff that makes this a transition worthy of explanation.
We’ll be posting some more details here, with updates as questions come in, so that’s what this post is for. There will [...]

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‘Heal Overeating: Untangled’ pre-release Q&A

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A dial-in call on May 26 answered questions about the Heal Overeating: Untangled program I’ve been laboring on since last year. Or has it been ten?
If you’ve followed my Overeating Help audio blogs this spring, I’ve expressed how this course has evolved. Yes, I scrapped the relatively shallow program I’d started last year, and decided [...]

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Heal Overeating program unveiled in free call May 26

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You know what it feels like to overeat, binge, or use food to soothe yourself – and how you criticize yourself afterwards.
How might a day like this feel instead:

You wake up tomorrow morning excited about what the day will bring, at peace, trusting and knowing that you can handle whatever comes your way – including [...]

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