Posts Tagged ‘Emotional needs’

When trapped in the emotional eating cycle it’s common to think “nothing will take the edge off quite like food.”  But this is just not true. I put this to the test this week and asked myself “what truly relaxes your nervous system?”  What are all the ways that you know how to “downshift” in a healthy way without guilt, shame, hangovers,…

Hi,  You reach for food after a long, stressful day.  It’s your “off” switch.  A moment to escape. To relax. To quiet the noise of your overwhelming world.  You eat so you can’t hear the voices in your head anymore.  But then you feel like crap.  Your belly aches.  Your farts smell like your insides are…

Do you have sacred space in your busy calendar to eat a nourishing lunch each and every day? One of the biggest mistakes that I see mission-driven women like yourself do is not making or taking time and space in your busy day to eat.  Which always results in a massive night-time binge. I speak from experience.  I used to…

Here is the truth: what you have had up to this point is an obsessive relationship with food. And an obsessive relationship is not love.  To eat foods that make you feel sick…To constantly be thinking about food… To be rigid and controlling around it… This is not healthy. This is not love.  It’s a tremendous waste of your precious…

When it comes to healing your relationship with food, what has your intuition been telling you?  Perhaps you suspect you’ve needed to learn better, healthier ways to cope with your stress, anxiety, and overwhelm.  Or after another night of stress eating, you say to yourself, “I can’t keep doing this.” Or you’ve had an inner knowing that healing your emotional eating…

Emotional eating is happening for you because you have crossed wires in your brain, like bugs in the software system of your mind, embedded from ways that you’ve coped with trauma and challenges in the past.   But, emotional eating is no longer working for you.  It may feel like your compulsive patterns and behaviors are normal to…

My issues with food were never about food itself. I realized that after bingeing my way through nutrition school and burning myself out, working out all the time.  I was clear: Nutrition and fitness were not going to heal the roots of my issues with food. It doesn’t matter if you swap your cookies for carrot…

Over the last few weeks, my clients have been sharing with me what their experience here at Escape From Emotional Eating has been like for them. This is how my clients are describing our work together:  Let yourself receive the energy that is in each of these words. Each one of them holds the energy…

Most people think that emotional eating is a way to numb difficult feelings like stress, anxiety, and fear. But one important thing I’ve learned from my own journey to heal my emotional eating and helping hundreds of other women do the same over the last 10 years is that emotional eating also numbs your power.  One of…