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Stop Overeating! Do It With Life Skills and Not Willpower

Make sure you’re with us on the call today as we hear from Karen Koenig, author of OUTSMARTING OVEREATING: Boost Your Life Skills, End Your Food Problems. Karen says we can transform our eating habits- and our lives- by developing effective life skills. We get started today at 4pm Eastern, 1pm Pacific time at chiforyourself.com

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Karen Koenig

 

 

JohnK 2-5-2015

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Chewing The Fat, Shedding Pounds, and Saying Goodbye to Diets

Well, here we are in the last week of January winging our way through 2015. I don’t know if you made any resolutions for the year, but if you did you may have the “lose some weight” resolution on your list. It’s one of the more popular promises we make each year. On the next CHI FOR YOURSELF we’re going to look at weight gain and weight loss from a perspective you may not have considered.

Our guest will be Karen Koenig,  author of Outsmarting Overeating: Boost Your Life Skills, End Your Food Problems  as well as five other books about eating and weight. Karen’s a psychotherapist, eating coach, and speaker who’s been working with troubled eaters for more than 30 years. Karen says “You may think food is your main problem, but it isn’t.” Rather, she says your problem is that “you never learned the skills and strategies everyone needs in order to live effectively and successfully.”

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Karen Koenig

Be on the call with us on the next CHI FOR YOURSELF with Karen Koenig- Thursday, February 5th at 1pm Pacific, 4pm Eastern time at chiforyourself.com.

 

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If you missed last week’s CHI FOR YOURSELF  interview with Mary Beth Sammons here’s a look back on some of the points we covered:

*overcoming challenges to an attitude of gratitude
*the Law of Attraction’s place in the practice of gratitude
*how hardship is such a good starting point for appreciation
*getting kids to feel grateful
*what Mary Beth is grateful for
*her favorite gratitude practice
*Yoga and Meditation as aids to gratitude
*Mary Beth’s collaboration with co-author Nina Lesowitz
*finding gratitude in a world of negative news
*separating real dreams from ego urges
*Mary Beth’s takeaway point from the book

You can listen to the CHI FOR YOURSELF interview with Mary Beth Sammons by clicking on this player:

 

 

 

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..all you really need is in your life already

∼ Thomas Merton

 

 

 

 

 

 

JohnK 1-29-2015
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A New Year of CHI FOR YOURSELF Begins With Gratitude

 

Join us for 2015’s first of the “first run” interviews this week when CHI FOR YOURSELF welcomes Mary Beth Sammons. Mary Beth is co-author, along with Nina Lesowitz, of The Grateful Life: The Secret to Happiness and the Science of Contentment. We’ll explore gratitude’s connection to contentment and a healthier and more abundant life, and how the power of gratitude can help us change our lives and improve our emotional and physical well-being.

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Mary Beth Sammons

Be with us on the call Thursday, January 22nd at 4pm Eastern, 1pm Pacific time at chiforyourself.com

 

JohnK 1-19-2015

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Wallowing Over Google Gremlins :-( And a Link to The Tina Gilbertson Interview

 

Picture of Tina GilbertsonApologies for problems on the Google Hangouts page that muted the audio for the Tina Gilbertson interview! Tina is the author of Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them. Tina turned conventional wisdom around with her explanation of how “constructive wallowing” can help in dealing with feelings. A list of talking points follows, and you can hear the interview by clicking on the BlogTalkRadio logo.

 

CHI FOR YOURSELF guest: Tina Gilbertson talking points:

  • Isn’t wallowing an oxymoron?
  • Having a good cry might not be enough
  • Self-criticism is not healing
  • Anger, temper, and wallowing
  • The T.R.U.T.H. Technique
  • Hatred, and working through it
  • Self-compassion toward yourself
  • Trying to replace a feeling with a thought
  • The benefits of constructive wallowing
  • Forgiveness- the policy and the emotion
  • The wallowing end-point

 

You can hear the CHI FOR YOURSELF interview with Tina Gilbertson by clicking on the BlogTalkRadio logo:

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JohnK 9-12-2014

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Today: Wallowing is Good For You!

 

Child hiding faceToday’s guest on Chi For Yourself is Tina Gilbertson. She says pushing bad feelings away never works, and she’ll offer us a practical approach to the more liberating alternative of allowing yourself to feel them. Chi For Yourself – at 4pm Eastern, 1pm Pacific time. Hear the interview at chiforyourself.com

 

 

 

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Tina Gilbertson is the author of Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them.

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Tina Gilbertson

 

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“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love an affection”

~ Gautama Buddha

 

 

 

JohnK 9-11-2014

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Have a Holly, Jolly, Jollytologist: A Fireside Chat to Warm Your Consciousness!

Picture of Christmas hollyWell, it’s holiday time in the US..and no matter how you observe (or if) this post is intended to send season’s greetings and gratitude from Chi For Yourself. This is the season to be jolly, so we present The “Jollytologist”, Allen Klein and the CFY interview of December 19th. Allen always brings a lighthearted look at life. And to provide a little light (and heat) we’ve included a roaring fire as accompaniment. (Okay…it’s schmaltzy, but play along!)
 
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…and, for effect, stoke the “fire”..
 

JohnK 12-24-2013

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