Did you know that your body talks to you? Well, it does: and as a matter of fact, it never shuts up! It's not entirely our fault if we're blind to internal messages from the body: in English "body" and "mind" are two separate words, implying two separate things. But this linguistic anomaly fails to describe the elegant processes taking place within a human body. A much better way to think about this subject would be to employ the concept of "bodymind," i.e., the body tha

My article "Can Anxiety Make You Fat?", which was posted on Beliefnet.com and Zestnow.com, answered the question with a resounding "Yes." The major culprit here is cortisol, a hormone that is produced when the body is under stress. One of the things that cortisol does is "preferentially direct body fat to the abdominal region" (i.e., create belly fat), as Dallas and Melissa Hartwig state in their 2012 book It Starts with Food. But something even scarier is happening here:

Check out my article on anxiety, the unwelcome hormones it produces in the body, and how these (especially a hormone called cortisol) lead to fat formation. Find the article on Simply Woman, The Three Tomatoes, Alina Bradford, and Pittsburgh Better Times. #anxiety #mindfulness #addiction #hormones #cortisol #dopamine #stress #stressresponse #metabolicsyndrome #abdominalfat #narcotics #foodcravings