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Luella’s pened thoughts on topics relating to emotional fullfillment and personal achievement. New posts weekly.
My Life Sucks!
These are the words that are resounding around my house…coming from the mouths of my 18- and 20-year-old children. And my response? It sure does. With the third wave of lockdowns just coming to surface, I am really starting to feel for these kids. They have entered a...
Do you have a food addiction? (Part3)
I once read in order to develop a habit, success is the secret sauce. I believe this to be true with many bad habits we want to drop and new habits we want to create. This can work with food as well, but it depends on the intensity of the signal sent to our brain...
Do you have a food addiction? (Part2)
The way I see it, and from what I gathered from my clients, our relationship with food can be broken down in two ways: healthy and unhealthy. Unhealthy often begins with a physiologically-based craving, which turns into an emotional craving. HEALTHY What defines a...
Do you have a food addiction?
No one wants to talk about it; however, it exists. People talk about it in my room because it is a place of no judgement. They can talk about their cravings openly. It is a craving like every other craving out there; cravings for heroin, cocaine, tobacco, sex, porn,...
Let me get that for you dear, you’ve had a hard day. Unfairness and Broken Promises.
I think it happens in the best of marriages. At some point along the timeline, you take a look at the present state of affairs and think, ‘Really? How did this even happen?’ It seems like at one time, tasks were divided and consideration for one another’s time was...
Betrayals No. 7 and 8 Two behaviours that need your attention
Ever wonder how a simple roll of the eyes can lead a friendly conversation to full out fighting? Or how you feel when your partner constantly points out your poor grammar and then follows with, ‘I am only trying to prevent you from embarrassing yourself in front of...
Betrayal No. 6 Mismatched Sexual Drives
Guess what? Just because this is more common than not, it doesn’t mean it is something to ignore. Similar reasoning may occur when visiting your primary care provider with a complaint about X and you are told, ‘Well, you aren’t getting any younger; that symptom is...
I Knocked, But No One Was Home | Betrayal #5 Absenteeism
I had clients call their spouses or parents ‘emotionally retarded’. They feel the person is incapable of showing empathy. As humans we are all wired to love. Therefore, change is possible for everyone. Becoming aware is the first step to change. The person who shows...
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Today I wanted to share something about my services that I have not yet formally announced. You may have heard me mention the term functional medicine to you from time to time. Let me briefly tell you what it is and why I decided to become certified as a functional...