Posts Tagged ‘stress eating’

I made some mistakes when it came to truly healing my emotional eating. Now being free from the compulsive and chaotic relationship with food I used to have, I can easily look back and see where I should have done things differently.  I can see how doing these 3 things differently would have saved me so much…

Dr. Deepak Chopra tells a powerful story in his book, Quantum Healing, that I want to share with you that powerfully demonstrates exactly what happens when we come together in Escape From Emotional Eating. He writes: “An Ohio University study of heart disease was conducted by feeding quite toxic, high-cholesterol diets to rabbits in order to block their arteries, duplicating…

Do you emotionally eat to calm your anxiety? You’re not alone. I used to eat to self-medicate my anxiety too.  Then I learned the truth: emotional eating only makes anxiety worse.  That’s because when you emotionally eat, the root cause of your anxiety is not being faced, managed, or handled.  In order to truly heal your…

How many times have you felt hungry and done something to avoid eating? Filled your belly with water to give the illusion of fullness…Dove deeper into work…Told yourself, “it’s not time to eat yet.” One of the big problems I see when I first start working with a client is how they’ve been trained to distrust their…

This is a piece of my story that you’ve probably never heard me talk about before. In this 3 minute clip from a recent podcast interview, I vulnerably share how my triggers with food turned into the greatest gifts and how my freedom from food has healed my marriage, family, and future generations.  Click the image below…

My birthday is coming up in just a few days (shout out to my fellow Pisces 🐠!) and I wanted to share a very valuable training with you that is all about How To Soothe Yourself Without Using Food – my gift to you!  In this training you’ll learn: – How soothing differs from numbing behavior – Why it’s critical you…

Feeling low? Like your swimming through quicksand…or an elephant is sitting on your chest?  It can be easy to default to food on dark days with your brain saying…“Food is fun!” “Food will make me feel better!” “Food will pull me out of this funk!”  But in truth, emotional eating just pushes down your real problem, embedding it into…

My work is often compared to the traditional model of therapy. The assumption is that I offer 1-hour sessions a few times a month. The assumption is that the more time spent IN a session, the more transformation. But that is not how I’ve structured the Escape From Emotional Eating Programs. Because I spent over 932 hours in…

I used to have this thing with granola. A seemingly healthy food…but when I would eat it I would go through an entire bag in a matter of seconds.  It wasn’t until my hand hit the bottom of the bag that I would “wake up” from my food trance wondering what alien creature had taken over my…