Women, Food, and Desire: Embrace Your Cravings, Make Peace with Food, Reclaim Your Body

Detoxing allows us to build the foundational strength of self-regulation and feel beyond the immediate itch or craving, to see down the road so that we can live with planning and purpose and not simply reactively.

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“You’re only as sick as your secrets.” With food, this is most certainly true. But, as Patricia learned, it’s also true with our feelings;

Saying no to the things that don’t feel right is as important as saying yes to the ones that do.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny. —Gandhi

That’s because this question is bursting with such deep meaning that it often bypasses the head and goes right to the heart.

He calls sleep “the food of the brain,” and it is! When we feed our brain the rest it craves, only then can it best support us, in both body and soul. When we’re rested we are able to stay relaxed—especially regarding food. Then we can make wise food choices that will best support us. This is why sleep is so very delicious,

The goal then is to replace unhealthy habits with what I call “heart habits”—actions that will demonstrably increase your well-being with a ripple effect of effortless benefits. When you design your habits so they’re adding to your energy level, your mental clarity, and your physical comfort, you’ll find that you will be able to fill the remaining

For instance, some studies indicate that as many as 70 percent of women who have breast cancer are vitamin D deficient. When breast cancer patients have been given D supplements, the rate of their cancer growth slowed demonstrably.