You are on my mind today. With today being the American Holiday of Thanksgiving, I wanted to share a few recommendations on how to create peace with food without changing anything you are eating.
Just like when I work with my clients, let’s focus on the most powerful part of your relationship with food – HOW you eat.
So keep these things in mind…
1). Watch out for scarcity thinking like, “We ONLY have this on Thanksgiving”.
Crazy fear-based thoughts rooted in lack, limitation, scarcity, one-time-only, and “better get it before it’s gone” only fuel unnecessary overconsumption.
Remind yourself of your personal power, agency, and abundance, especially when it comes to food.
If you really wanted your Aunt’s magnificent potato leek soup on a random Tuesday in February, I bet she’d be delighted to make it for you.
Bottom line: There’s no real scarcity when it comes to food. So you don’t need to overeat out of fear today.
2). What looks divinely delicious to you?
Take time to really look at all the prepared food and notice what looks divinely delicious to you.
No need to take one of everything. You are in charge of your body and your plate. Put only what you truly want on it.
Trust me: you won’t hurt anyone’s feelings if you ooh and ah over 1 dish instead of 5 or 6.
Insider Tip: I’ll insert myself to help place dishes on the table, ensuring each has the right serving utensil, exactly for this reason… to have time and space to really look at everything (before there are a million distractions) and discern, “what do I really want?”
3). Remember: Eating together does NOT take the place of beingtogether.
I believe the Holidays are about spending time together and sharing mutual interests. They’re not really about overeating, overdrinking, or overspending.
Focus on what truly matters:
Be present – let yourself really BE there.
Notice – look for the good in each person. Even if it takes more effort with the difficult folks.
Breathe – there’s nowhere to really go and there’s nothing to really do. Simply be and breathe. Your presence is enough.
This will support you in being more connected to yourself, your body, and that little voice within that says “I’m full.”
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These are just a few basic recommendations. But, there is so much more that goes into creating long-term peace with food.
Is your intuition nudging you to work on your underlying issues with food?
–> Click here right now because that’s exactly the work we’ll do together.
You deserve to have peace and freedom in your relationship with food.
I’m here to support you.
In service to your freedom,
P.S. I am so grateful we are connected.
In a world that is overwhelmingly saturated with disempowering modalities that miss the mark when it comes to women and food, I’m glad we’re connected here and doing this unique, real, and sacred work of healing the roots of your relationship with food. 💖
When I think of Thanksgiving, I think of Zach’s Dad (my Father-in-Law). He tragically passed away 2 years ago and the Holidays, especially Thanksgiving, have never felt the same since.
For me, the emotional earthquakes that the Holidays bring, have already started.
[pass the tissues, please]
So here’s what I’m doing about it to avoid any sneaky overeating, binge eating, or emotional eating…
I’m including THIS ⬇️ in Thanksgiving Meal Prep and I invite you to join me in this practice — especially if you have food fear or food anxiety!
This recommendation and practice will be oh-so-easy to skip over. Yet, it’s the very thing you need the most.
You may even think about doing this exercise, but never grab that pen and paper to actually do it. I see you! Don’t be like that!
Give this exercise a whole-hearted try.
Know that I’m doing it right along with you.
In service to your freedom,
P.S. Share the love! Forward this to a friend, family member, or coworker so you can make these tweaks together! No need to go at it alone.
I’ve got another Quick Tip for you – this one is specifically about avoiding overeating at Holiday Events.
Click here to receive this week’s tip:
As a reminder, over the next few weeks every Sunday I’ll be sending you a video with a quick tip to avoid overeating this Holiday Season – my gift to you!
My invitation is that you give my recommendations a whole-hearted try.
I know you are fully capable – you can do this!
Don’t let these tips just live in your head as a “oh, I should do that” or a “maybe I’ll try it”. Most of all, don’t put this off until the New Year.
While the Holidays are a time of intensity, they are RIPE for healing the deeper roots of your relationship with food.
So let’s do this!
Give it a try because your overeating isn’t serving anyone…especially you!
In service to your freedom,
P.S. Share the love! Forward this to a friend, family member, or coworker so you can make these tweaks together! No need to go at it alone.
Ahoy! This is your captain speaking! 👩🏼✈️✨
Consider me your captain of Avoiding Overeating this Holiday Season!
While technically I’m your Captain on avoiding overeating, binge eating, and emotional eating no matter what season it is, I’m excited to share this special gift I have for you!
Over the next few weeks, every Sunday, I’ll be sending you a video with a quick tip to avoid overeating – my gift to you!
My invitation is that you give my recommendations a whole-hearted try.
I know you are fully capable – you can do this!
Don’t let these tips just live in your head as a “oh, I should do that” or a “maybe I’ll try it”. Most of all, don’t put this off until the New Year.
While the Holidays are a time of intensity, they are RIPE for healing the deeper roots of your relationship with food.
So let’s do this!
Click here to receive this week’s tip:
Give it a try because your overeating isn’t serving anyone…especially you!
In service to your freedom,
P.S. Share the love! Forward this to a friend, family member, or coworker so you can make these tweaks together!
P.P.S. All of my recommendations are backed by my personal experience and professional training. I never recommend anything that I haven’t lived, breathed, or walked through myself. Know that everything I’ll be recommending over the next few weeks are guidelines that I personally continue to implement no matter what season it is. And I’ve been making similar recommendations to clients for the past 13 years. So you’ll be getting a little taste of how our little Escape From Emotional Eating world approaches the Holidays in an unconventional way! Join in 🤗
I see you.
You have the career. The home. The life and the things you wanted.
You are a woman who gets it done. You make it all look easy.
On the outside, you keep it all together all the time.
But on the inside…
On the inside….you are falling apart.
No one knows you stay up late squeezing secret snacks into your nighttime silence.
No one knows how crowded your brain space is with more than 50% of your daily thoughts being about food or your body.
No one knows that food has power over you and the real reason you workout so much is to burn off what you ate last night while the kids were sleeping.
You are a smart, successful high-achieving woman. You tell yourself you “should” have this food stuff figured out by now. But you can’t believe you’ve been carrying this secret burden that you use food to cope.
You try to tell yourself food is the glue that helps you keep it all together. But you know in your heart it’s contributing to your demise.
You have enough on your plate. You don’t need this chaotic relationship with food holding you back anymore. It’s impacting everything.
You want peace.
You want to heal the roots of this so you can truly be free.
You want healthy, doable tools to manage and move through difficult thoughts, feelings, and emotions without using food to cope…because the tools you have right now aren’t cutting it.
You want high-level support and an intuitive coach so you can break through your inner glass ceiling.
Above all, you want to perform at a higher level in a healthier way. Because your life isn’t getting any easier. It’s time to learn a better way to manage it.
Click here and apply now.
The Escape From Emotional Eating programs were made for you.
In service to your freedom,
P.S. I see you, because I was you. I know that you tend to wait until you are so bruised, beaten down, even physically broken until you let yourself even consider asking for help. It’s time to release your shame and achiever mentality and simply take the next step by clicking here <— I see you. I was you. I got you. We’re gonna do this together. 💖
Hey,
I have a confession. I have been wrestling with a tremendous amount of FOPO. 😖
FOPO, not fomo. FOPO = the fear of other people’s opinions.
For me, it shows up as the mental hurricane of “oh no, what will so-and-so think of me?”
A swirl of scenarios play out in my mind…
I’ll know exactly what so-and-so will say…
I’ll even feel in my own body how they’ll feel (as if it’s already happened!)…
Then I’ll completely shut down.
A few weeks ago I realized how much FOPO was holding me back from doing many things that I really want to do!
So, I’m following the same next step I encourage my clients to take: I CHOOSE TO CHANGE.
I made a video for you so you can learn from my experience and be inspired by what I’m doing to transform these old roadblocks into hurdles I am committed to jumping.
In service to your freedom,
P.S. As I shared in this video, hard things aren’t so heavy when we do them together. If you’re ready for your relationship with food to transform from a roadblock into a hurdle you learn how to jump, click here to receive support.
Hey,
When I was emotionally eating, I was ignoring a lot of things that needed to be tended to.
That’s the thing about emotional eating…it masks so much.
It masks what you truly need that cannot be found in food.
It masks your truth. It silences your voice.
It leaks your power and your energy to show up authentically in your life.
Emotional eating stunts you from fully living.
Now, I’m not saying that we want to just pull emotional eating or any coping mechanisms right out of your hands.
Instead, to heal emotional eating at the core, you need to upgrade your methods of coping.
You need to upgrade your emotional resilience.
You need to upgrade the tools that you use.
You need to upgrade how you use your voice.
A lot of people will turn to food as a coping mechanism because they don’t know what else to do.
It’s not your fault you weren’t taught a better way.
Remember: it’s never too late to learn something new.
In service to your freedom,
This quote came from the Self-Care Goddess Podcast: Escape Emotional Eating: Why & How Using Food To Cope Is Sabotaging You | Jessica Procini | SCGP: 128, Sep 8, 2024
Click here to listen to the full episode.
Listen to this podcast because you’ll learn something new about your relationship with food.
If you’re short on time, I recommend jumping in around the 11:11 mark.
From there, Rita asks some hard questions like, “Is all emotional eating bad?” and many more.
My answers will shock you and the “a-ha!” moments are abundant throughout this episode so listen now!
In service to your freedom,
P.S. After you listen, I invite you to hit reply on this email and let me know: what was an “a-ha!” you had from this episode?
I’d love to hear from you and my door is always open. Plus, it helps me know what to share more of with you.
Can’t wait to hear from you!
P.P.S. Rita opens the episode with a beautiful centering and grounding exercise. It never ceases to amaze me how a few seconds can shift how we feel in our bodies. I hope you’ll let yourself receive this.
Back when I was an emotional eater, I thought my issues with food had solely to do with food itself. So for years I made valiant attempts to eat super healthy, cook all my meals, portion control, burn calories, etc.
But, my efforts focusing on fitness and nutrition always missed the mark.
Which meant I stayed trapped in the emotional eating cycle for years.
Much longer than I needed to IF I had just known the truth.
If someone had just told me that my issues with food were called compulsions and helped me see that I using food to cope.
If someone had just told me that in order to change I would need to shift my focus to the INNER work…
Well, I would have overcome my emotional eating a lot sooner.
I would have avoided years of investing my time, energy, and resources in mis-matched solutions.
While I can’t go back and re-do the past, I choose today and every day forward, to help other women escape the emotional eating cycle a lot faster and easier than I could.
So I put together this video highlighting a few other misconceptions that our society believes about emotional eating.
As you watch this, I invite you to reflect on these questions:
– Have you heard any of these before?
– Do you, yourself, believe any of them?
– How might these beliefs be enabling your emotional eating?
Watch this with compassion in your heart and curiosity in your mind.
In service to your freedom,
P.S. Beyond food, what other areas of your life are you being guided to let go of the past and choose to do things differently today?
Jessica Procini is on a mission helping women who strive for excellence heal the roots of their emotional eating so they can embody their full potential.
Learn more about her unique approach here!
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