Laura Burkett

A few eating psychology principles can help dissolve patterns of overeating. Among the many eating grievances clients share, overeating is high on the list (alongside binge eating, chronic dieting, GI issues, and forgetting to eat/plan meals). Overeating, at its essence, is eating beyond the point of the body's signal of satiation. The problem is that many, many of us have been domesticated in such a way that we are disconnected from any subtle sensations in the body, so we're left to figure...

This week I'm back from co-teaching an annual 5-Day Summer Intensive I teach alongside Jungian and clinical psychologist, C. Michael Smith, PhD and L-3 Internal Family Systems practitioner, Aion Farvahar, PhD. We've been doing this for four or five years now. It's a labor of love and generally a deep and powerful time together where we can step away from culture, social personas can drop, and we can explore what it is to open our hearts to the places the love isn't flowing. One of the two...

A number of my clients have been sharing feelings of frustration and self-judgment as they navigate the intersection between hot weather, the increase in cookouts and rich foods and drinks, and feeling bloated and less-than-100% with body image, and then needing to venture out with weather-appropriate clothes like shorts and tank tops. Self-judgement, self-attack, and frustration can quickly take up residence in the mind. We all can fall into patterns of self-judgment when we don't love...