Laura Burkett

I was listening to a podcast by Eva Beronius, whose work largely encompasses relational healing and health. In it, she referred to Nathaniel Branden PhD's book, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem. And I thought, "My god, this relates to all areas of life." If you feel your body, diet, and nutritional self-esteem has taken a hit, this is for you. Many women feel poorly about their body or eating habits either due to painful cycles like overeating, binge eating, food fixations/obsessions, chronic...

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...