

Tapping Down Holiday Loneliness
The holiday season can be a very stressful time for lots of people. I sort of see there being 3 areas of increased stress during the holidays: work/school, home & family and physical stress. Today I'm looking at some of the home & family stress, specifically I'm focusing in on loneliness and loss. At this time of year we see SO many images of happy families and happy gatherings. What if that is not our reality? For many of us, we have relationships that are not as smooth and


Holiday Eating (and Overeating)
Our relationship to food can be very complicated. We learn about HOW to relate to food from our parents and caregivers when we are very young. There can be a lot positive emotions linked to food (thus the popular notion of comfort food), but there can also be a lot of negative emotions as well. As we learn about food from the adults in our lives, we also inherit our their learned views/emotions/relationship to food. So it can be quite complicated. This tapping video is to hel