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Warning Signs That Someone Is Emotionally Unstable

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Emotionally UnstablePeggy Sue – Emotions are totally normal, and it can be healthy to try and find some sort of release for them. We all need to let go sometimes and show the world how we’re feeling. However, when someone is emotionally unstable, they allow their emotions to constantly take over their life. They struggle to mediate their feelings to take control of a given situation, and when this happens, chaos ensues. When someone is emotionally unstable, they can’t find their way to the light at the end of the tunnel.

Sometimes it is really hard to control what we feel and we might start to think we’re emotionally unstable. However, there’s more to it than that. When someone is emotionally unstable, their imbalance effects their life constantly, not just on occasion. That’s why if someone is emotionally unstable, they need all the help they can get. But what happens when we are emotionally unstable and don’t have anyone to rely on? Continue reading →

Orthorexia : Experts Say Healthy Eating Can Become A Dangerous Obsession

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eatingHealthy eating varies by individual preference, often based on a variety of factors including a desire to lose weight, to manage a health condition or to engage in more sustainable, earth friendly practices. While shunning high sugar, heavily processed foods is an essential way of life for many, there are those who feel that a healthy eating lifestyle has the potential to turn into an obsession that can become life-threatening. (1)

Orthorexia, a word coined by Steven Bratman, MD, is a term used to indicate a “fixation on eating proper food” in which some people focus so strongly on a pure eating lifestyle that any kind of upset in their eating pattern can spiral out of control. In his article, “Health Food Eating Disorder,” which popularized the term orthorexia in the 90s, Bratman explains that the problems set in when people’s “‘kitchen spirituality’ begins to override other sources of meaning.  An orthorexic will be plunged into gloom by eating a hot dog…. Conversely, he can redeem any disappointment by extra efforts at dietary purity.”(2)

The desire to eat healthy can go too far

While Bratman is not advocating junk food over fruits and vegetables, he’s drawing on both his experiences as a physician who practices alternative medicine and the fact the he was once a cook and organic farmer at a large upstate New York commune. Continue reading →

5 Tips For Eating Healthy On A Budget

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“True farmer’s markets often have very competitively-priced produce. The fruits and vegetables you find at these markets will be in-season and local as well, which means they’ll taste better and likely be better for you.” E Renter

FarmersMarketLosAngelesWhen it comes to eating healthy on a regular basis, you may think it’s impossible without breaking the bank. While true that processed food manufacturers have the corner on cheap eats, that doesn’t mean you can’t be both health-conscious and thrifty at the same time. Below you will find 5 tips for eating healthy – on a budget.

There are several things you can do to enjoy a natural foods lifestyle without spending a fortune. However, it does take some effort. Our current food system has cultivated a belief that cheap and easy is good. The belief is inherently flawed when discussing health. Instead, smart and healthy is good, and you don’t necessarily have to sacrifice reasonable costs to attain this.

1. Make a List

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Food Addiction And The Obesity Epidemic

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Wake Up World  February 19 2014

Have you ever heard someone describe a certain food as addictive? Of course you have. Certainly when we eat specific foods, it feels like we can’t seem to get enough. And we also have a tendency to turn to those foods for emotional comfort.

We also understand that binge eating is considered an eating disorder – it is categorized as a mental-emotional disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). However, the bigger question is whether binge eating is addictive? And is food addiction contributing to the obesity epidemic?

Food addiction is real

According to Dr. S. Dickson, it is important to understand the mechanisms underlying the uncontrolled intake of food and the development of obesity. She remarked that “brain reward pathways that are involved in alcohol and drug addiction are also essential elements of the ghrelin responsive circuit. And ghrelin has been shown to both signal hunger and increase food intake”.

Ghrelin is a hormone secreted by the stomach and pancreas which stimulates areas of the brain responsible for hunger – and it might be responsible for food addiction, making some people more prone to obesity.

Dr. Dickson also added, “based on these and other recent findings, could obesity be a food addiction? A subgroup of obese patients indeed show ‘addictive-like’ properties with regard to overeating…. but this does not automatically mean they are addicted”.

“We don’t completely understand why certain vulnerable individuals become addicted, transferring something rewarding to becoming addicted to it,” she noted. “For now, we need to ask: in our modern environment where food is so plentiful, has food no longer become our friend when it is something we can become addicted to?”

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Scared And Sacred Are Just Different Arrangements Of The Same Letters

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Inspire Me Today | January 11 2013

Right now is a life and death battle between sacred and scared. The scale swings sometimes wildly. Fear is what comes and scares us. They came to you at some time in the past when you needed that protective warning and now they have overstayed their welcome and you haven’t booted them out.

The love/fear scale is to test our awareness. More love, less fear; more fear, less love. Love is the great dispeller of fear. Love is the great bringer of sacred. Have you noticed that when you go take care of someone else, when you listen to someone else from your heart, when you wake up to someone around you, you have more love than fear?

Fold a piece of paper in half anyway you want. At the top left write “Fears” and at the top right write “Love”. Then make a list of what creates or awakens your fears on the left. Then on the right, make a list of what awakens your love. If you look at this list daily, you will become more aware and remember what you feed is what lives and grows. You get to choose.

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