by Allison | Jan 31, 2013 | Allison Bottke's Blog, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Food, Wisdom & Resources
SANITY is what we gain when we shift our priorities and stop focusing on dieting, food, and on our weight—when we stop focusing on the problems of others, and on the situations and circumstances of life, and begin to focus on changing our own attitudes and...
by Allison | Jan 29, 2013 | Allison Bottke's Blog, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Food, Wisdom & Resources
Where do you think your true calling is? Are you living in the truth and light of that calling? If not, why not? How many years have we wasted doing things we don’t want to do? Being people we don’t want to be? Living lives we never imagined for ourselves? When was...
by Allison | Jan 24, 2013 | Allison Bottke's Blog, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Food, Wisdom & Resources
Training ourselves to listen to our hunger may be one of the most challenging things we’ll ever do in our lives. We’ve spent decades eating what we’ve wanted when we wanted, or depriving ourselves of eating what we wanted when we wanted because we were on yet another...
by Allison | Jan 22, 2013 | Allison Bottke's Blog, Enabling, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Food, Wisdom & Resources
Not all diets are destructive. What is destructive, however, is what we’re doing to our bodies when we frequently start and stop weight loss programs. Studies have proven the greater the number of failed diets, the greater the likelihood that stress-eating has been...
by Allison | Jan 17, 2013 | Allison Bottke's Blog, Enabling, Hope/Healing, Setting Boundaries with Food, Wisdom & Resources
We can be so busy and so intent on being “the winner” or being “the best” or “the richest” or “the thinnest” or “the most popular,” that we forget what is really important in our lives – our faith, our family, our friends, forgiveness, and fun! [1] The journey to find...
