This enabled my binge eating. 

Hi! Once upon a time, I was addicted to busy-ness. 

I wore it like a big gold medal so everyone knew I was the very best at doing all the things…aka binge scheduling. 

Binge scheduling looks like: 

➤ Being so busy you’ve stopped hydrating because you don’t have time to pee (let alone eat) 

➤ Saying yes to everything (especially the stuff you don’t really want to do) 

➤ Rarely, if ever, accounting for travel or transition time because in your mind teleporting is real 

➤ Chronically showing up late, stressed, scattered, and nervousbut pretending like everything is “just fine”!

Which culminates in this show-stopping bellyflopping grand finale: 

Where the end of a busy-stressful day comes… you are so fried, burnt to a crisp, and running on fumes – that eating becomes your “sweet escape”. 

Sound familiar? 🙋🏼‍♀️

This was me. 

But not anymore! 

Because many years ago, I made a commitment to stop binge eating. 

Which meant dismantling all the things that enabled my binge eating. 

Therefore, binge scheduling and my hidden addiction to busy-ness had to change. 

So today, as September and the swirl of back-to-school swarms in around us, I wanted to share a few things I learned about the correlation between binge eating and binge scheduling. 

Let’s dive in! 

1 – Back when I was the Queen of Busy-ness, it never occurred to me that I was the creator of my own chaos.

Just like with food, my behavior with my to-dos was compulsive. Compulsive = out of my control / I could not stop. 

It was so deeply rooted, so deeply ingrained, that I couldn’t see the forest from the trees. I couldn’t see how I was contributing to my own demise.

It wasn’t until I got help from someone outside of myself that I realized, “oh my gosh. I’m doing the same thing I do with food in sooo many areas of my life.”

Actually…it was more like, “wait. you mean I made this sh*tshow? I’m contributing to the problem?!”

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2 – Another thing I learned along the way was that my busy-ness, just like my overeating, was a coping strategy. Both had high costs to my health and my integrity. 

The go-go-go, do-do-do, more-more-more of life AND food put a buffer between myself, my awareness, and my feelings. 

Both patterns kept me out of touch with what I truly knew and felt. 

The more I ate and the more I pushed through my to-do list, the more I kept denying my intuition and inner guidance. 

Over time, it kept me in a perpetual state of deferring my needs, hopes, and dreams. 

3 – The big kicker was how deeply tied this all was to my self-worth and identity. 

On some deep internal level back then, I believed if I did it all, I’d be seen as good enough. Worthy. Like I’ll be “doing life right”.

Which fueled the addictive patterns of overeating, overworking, and over responsibility.

So the pattern continued until I made a conscious choice and commitment to change it. And let myself have a teacher, a mentor, a coach who could teach me new skills. 

Looking back, I feel so much compassion for the old version of me who was just trying to do her best (at the time) with what she had back then. 

And I’m SO grateful I no longer binge eat. Because of that I no longer binge schedule, either. 

I’m grateful I’ve come to learn a different way: where I know, own, and honor my unique boundaries with food, my energy, my schedule, and my responsibilities. 

Where I’m deeply rooted in my connection with myself and will slay anything that tries to interfere (productivity culture be damned!).

I’m grateful I’ve learned to make time for what truly matters to me, to what aligns with my values, and with what will move the needle towards my goals. 

I’m proud that I’ve gotten good at saying “I’m full” – with food, work, and life – and not being afraid of those healthy boundaries. 

And sometimes I still can’t believe I’ve had the honor of passing these lessons along to my clients, and people like you, for the last 13 years. 

I hope something in my story inspires you or helps you connect some of the deeper dots in your own unhealthy compulsive patterns. 

When you need help changing them, click here.

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In service to your freedom,