Real Stories of Real People Mastering their Real Life Challenges

It’s always clearer when it’s someone else’s life, right?

Following are stories of individual clients (or even me) finding ways to manage their struggles with food using behavioral and cognitive techniques.  Their specific circumstances may not be your circumstances, but try to identify with the nature of the challenge and their process rather than comparing the details of your life. Continue reading “Real Stories of Real People Mastering their Real Life Challenges” »


I Did It My Way – Andrea’s Story

Mar 3, 2015

As a speaker and body image coach, I work with professional women who struggle with self-esteem issues and emotional eating and give them tools to be more confident and feel relaxed around food. Before I met Susan I had already […]

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Power Hour

Nov 5, 2014

I get up every morning defaulted back to my original factory settings which, given my life-threatening lifestyle history, is definitely not the me I want running my show for the day! So I get up with enough time for my […]

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A Scone By Any Other Name…

Nov 2, 2014

I used to joke that when I die they are going to have to take out my appetite and beat it with a bat, so constant was my longing and preoccupation with food.  I managed my weight because I understood […]

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Keeping a Grip on My Skinny Self Through the Holidays

Nov 2, 2014

Halloween can easily be an early catalyst for the annual six week Thanksgiving to New Years “Tornado Season” of weight management, each holiday potentially cutting a swath of destruction in our healthy habits in its wake…or maybe not! With that concern […]

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I Did It My Way – Emma’s Story

Oct 14, 2014

Before I had met Susan I had been on just about any and every diet (including fasting and starving myself as a teenager) for the last almost 40 years. I was a serial Weight Watchers joiner and tried OA meetings, […]

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Skinny Agreements

Sep 26, 2014

Much like the plant in Little Shop of Horrors, my internal cookie monster is awakened – not appeased – by holiday goodies. So, it’s no surprise that right about this time every December, as “Feeeed Me” would drown out any […]

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