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When I was in the grips of my painful and compulsive relationship with food, and struggling with my weight and my body image as a side-effect, the idea that MOST soothed and comforted me was a two-fold one. The first part of the thought was this: your body is an animal. Literally it’s a […]

Back when I was struggling with my weight, locked in my self-inflicted prison of restriction and denial, I searched everywhere for a way out. All of the “diet books” sang the one same sorry tune –restriction, denial, control– and in my bones, I knew that couldn’t *really* be the way. Many years later, I’ve […]

“I want to feel sexy,” my client Jasmina told me as I probed why losing weight was important to her. She had come to me for help with my specialty—pleasurable weight loss—and I was getting to know her. “As soon as I lose the weight I can feel sexy, but I need to lose […]

As I write this message I am in LA, teaching a special edition of my Pleasure Camp for a reality TV show… I’m super excited, and there’s one thing I really can’t wait to see — the look of sweet relief that crosses a woman’s face when she “gets” the counter-intuitive message of pleasurable […]

I hope this message finds you well, and certainly you’re going to feel even better after checking out the resource I’m about to share with you. It’s a fine day indeed, as pleasure is coming onto the stage, into the spotlight and is being seen and heard in the media. What am I talking […]

I’ve just returned home to the US after 2 weeks away, and though of course the intention of the adventure was, of course, pleasure, I experienced some pain in the process too. And so that’s the topic of this week blog — how do you deal with pain? In case you’ve ever wondered, “Does […]