Home
AS FEATURED IN
How did I end up here?
Well… I used to have this thing with granola. A seemingly healthy food, but when I would eat it… I would hear this overwhelming voice in my head that would say, "Eat more! Have another!"
This voice was so overpowering I would enter this zombie-like state finishing an entire bag in just a matter of minutes. I was out of control.
I tried to make myself feel better by saying, “Oh, but it’s just granola. It’s healthy! No big deal.” Or, “We’ll just work this off at the gym tomorrow.” This overwhelming voice was always in my head.
I was always thinking about food.
I desperately searched for answers. Eating as clean as possible, working out every day, 2x a day... but no meal plan or portion control techniques saved me. Even though I was burning 1400 calories a day, I continued to gain weight... putting on 35 pounds in just a matter of months.
Exercise couldn’t erase what I was doing with food, even though I worked out every day I gained over 35 pounds. I was out of control. I hit my rock bottom. I felt dead inside... Like my soul had left my body. A shell of a human being.
That’s when I discovered 3 things that changed my life.
![[Plate with chocolate cake crumbs] Jessica Procini, Escape From Emotional Eating: "3 thingsthat changed my life. 1: I discovered that what I was doing with food had a name! It was called emotional eating!](https://escapefromemotionaleating.com/wp-content/uploads/3things-emotional-eating.png "[Plate with chocolate cake crumbs] Jessica Procini, Escape From Emotional Eating: \"3 thingsthat changed my life. 1: I discovered that what I was doing with food had a name! It was called emotional eating!")
![[Opened chocolate bar] Jessica Procini, Escape From Emotional Eating: "3 thingsthat changed my life. 2: I discovered that I was taking all of my stress, anxiety, fears and worries and shoving them down and putting food on top of them. "](https://escapefromemotionaleating.com/wp-content/uploads/3things-emotional-eating-stress-anxiety.png "[Opened chocolate bar] Jessica Procini, Escape From Emotional Eating: \"3 thingsthat changed my life. 2: I discovered that I was taking all of my stress, anxiety, fears and worries and shoving them down and putting food on top of them. \"")
![[Jessica drinking tea] Jessica Procini, Escape From Emotional Eating: "3 things that changed my life. 3: And most of all in order to escape this emotional eating, I had to face my feelings and do things differently."](https://escapefromemotionaleating.com/wp-content/uploads/3things-emotional-eating-face-feelings.png "[Jessica drinking tea] Jessica Procini, Escape From Emotional Eating: \"3 things that changed my life. 3: And most of all in order to escape this emotional eating, I had to face my feelings and do things differently.\"")
I created a process called Digesting Emotions®.
At first, I created this process for myself as a way to process and release my feelings rather than to numb my nerves with food. Now this process is what I teach my clients.
Fast-forward to today things are drastically different.
![[Granola in heart shaped bowl] Jessica Procini, Escape From Emotional Eating. Digesting Emotions: Food is fuel to me, a nourishing asset to my life.](https://escapefromemotionaleating.com/wp-content/uploads/digesting-emotions-food-is-fuel.png "[Granola in heart shaped bowl] Jessica Procini, Escape From Emotional Eating. Digesting Emotions: Food is fuel to me, a nourishing asset to my life.")
Food is fuel to me, a nourishing asset to my life.
![[Macaron on "eat me" platel] Jessica Procini, Escape From Emotional Eating. Digesting Emotions: I can keep food I love in the house without over doing it.](https://escapefromemotionaleating.com/wp-content/uploads/digesting-emotions-food-I-Love.png "[Macaron on \"eat me\" platel] Jessica Procini, Escape From Emotional Eating. Digesting Emotions: I can keep food I love in the house without over doing it.")
I can keep food I love in the house without over doing it.
![[Jessica reading in Windo] Jessica Procini, Escape From Emotional Eating. Digesting Emotions: I no longer have to exercise to erase what I eat.](https://escapefromemotionaleating.com/wp-content/uploads/digesting-emotions-excercise.png "[Jessica reading in Windo] Jessica Procini, Escape From Emotional Eating. Digesting Emotions: I no longer have to exercise to erase what I eat.")
I no longer have to exercise to erase what I eat.
Instead, I move my body in ways that I really love, like walking, or dancing, or yoga. Now, when I wake up in the morning I feel calm, present, grounded, ready for the day, excited with possibility.
Most of all I feel alive again.
What really shocked me was once I cleared out the chaos, and the cookies, that I was able to truly be at PEACE, on all levels: physically, mentally and emotionally.
No matter how crazy or chaotic life would get.
My inner peace was always there.
I was finally free from food!
That’s why I’m dedicated to supporting as many people as possible to Escape From Emotional Eating!
Through all my levels of support like our free bi-weekly newsletter, our retreats called the Escape, all the way to my in-depth transformational 6-month and year-long mentoring programs and retreats!
