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How to Love Yourself Into Weight Loss
This article originally appeared on Elephant Journal. Click the link to read it there. A while back a client of mine said, “I feel bad...
Amy Jones
Apr 19, 20174 min read


A Reminder that Perfection Never Pays (and here’s Why)
When we set out on a journey to find relief or healing around food and body, we often do so from a place of “something is wrong and needs...
Amy Jones
Mar 12, 20174 min read


How Does Food Make You Feel?
One of the biggest changes for me in my completely revising my relationship to food was to pay attention to how food made me feel. I...
Amy Jones
Feb 27, 20173 min read


It’s Valentine’s Day and You’re a Single Woman. Maybe this is You.
This post was originally published on Huffington Post. It’s the week of Valentine’s Day and I was reminded this morning of being a gal,...
Amy Jones
Feb 13, 20173 min read


Why Permission Matters for Emotional Eaters
As kids, we can’t wait to become adults where we no longer have to ask for permission anymore and get all the freedom we want, to do...
Amy Jones
Feb 6, 20174 min read


Honoring the Seasons of Your Body to Step off the Emotional Eating Crazy Train (Part 2)
In Part One, I talked about slowing down and allowing yourself to have the "down" time time, the cycles of emotion and your innate nature...
Amy Jones
Feb 4, 20173 min read


Honoring the Seasons of Your Body to step off the Emotional Eating Crazy Train (Part 1)
Today I wanted to share a tidbit that I believe is one of the key reasons we aren't able to make peace with our bodies OR truly give...
Amy Jones
Jan 5, 20172 min read


How to Make a Non-Foolish, Long Lasting New Year’s Resolution
The New Years Resolution diets are upon us! This used to be one of my favorite things to do. I'd decide how much weight I wanted to lose...
Amy Jones
Dec 28, 20163 min read


Why Your Diet Always Fails And How To Actually Transform Your Relationship To Food And Body
As seen on The Huffington Post. Diets are a one dimensional approach to a multi-dimensional challenge. Every year in the US, we spend...
Amy Jones
Sep 5, 20165 min read


How to Stop Putting Yourself Last
I have a question for you. Do you take care of others at the expense of not taking care of yourself? Maybe you can relate: I used to be...
Amy Jones
Aug 4, 20163 min read


Mantras, Platitudes, Transcendence & How to ACTUALLY Have the Life you Want
In the world of personal growth, spiritual enlightenment, yoga and most recently, the body positivity movement, I see so much talk about...
Amy Jones
Jul 28, 20164 min read


The Push-Pull of Exercise
See that picture above? That's right, ladies. Those are my brand new running shoes. In an official sort of capacity, I have decided to...
Amy Jones
Jul 20, 20162 min read


What it *Actually* Takes to Feel Confident
We have come to believe that we can sit and think good thoughts about ourselves, do a few affirmations, lose 20 pounds or find a cure for...
Amy Jones
Jul 6, 20162 min read


The Parts of You a Diet Ignores
"When we eliminate symptoms without cultivating wholeness, we still have an unwell, unwhole or fragmented psyche that will soon enough...
Amy Jones
May 19, 20163 min read


How to Choose Differently this Bikini Season
This article was originally published on The Huffington Post. Spring is in full bloom. Summer is right around the corner. That means...
Amy Jones
May 18, 20164 min read


On Life: Guess What? There’s Actually Nothing Wrong with You
A little love note from my heart to yours on this Sunday morning: There is nothing wrong with you. You aren't wrong because you haven't...
Amy Jones
Mar 20, 20162 min read


On Food & Life: Trusting your Gut + Soul Intuition around Food
The mind body connection is no more visible than in our relationship to food and eating. I remember my first job out of college, I worked...
Amy Jones
Feb 21, 20162 min read


On Life: Learning Self Kindness
One of the things I consistently see with women who want a different relationship to food and body is that they aren't very nice to...
Amy Jones
Feb 20, 20161 min read


5 Ways to Love Yourself into the Body & Life You Want
This article was originally published on The Huffington Post Self-judgment is one of the least effective tools we have for changing our...
Amy Jones
Nov 28, 20154 min read


On Food: Are You Eating to Live or Living to Eat?
Originally published on The Huffington Post. Having a balanced and pleasurable relationship with food is a challenge for the majority of...
Amy Jones
Oct 17, 20154 min read
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