Last week, I shared why calling a friend when you’re lonely or taking a bath when you want to reward yourself with food does not work to stop emotional eating. You don’t eat because of not talking to your friend or not having a bath. As Dr. Susan David says in her brilliant book, Emotional ...
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Radical Healing: A Healthy Relationship with Work – Insatiable Season 6, Episode 2
Download the transcript (PDF) Many of my clients eat out of alignment with their goals when work becomes "too much," stressful, or overwhelming. In today’s episode, Radical Healing: A Healthy Relationship with Work, Nicole Lewis-Keeber and I discuss how changing the way we work can heal ...
Embrace your feelings to prevent emotional eating
In our series so far, I’ve given ways to prevent emotional eating. Not having to white-knuckle food is easier than trying to stop emotional eating once that pull towards food is in motion. Yet, this is not how 99% of health and wellness experts approach emotional eating. In the same way we want ...
Radical Healing: Break free from loneliness and overeating with naked communication – Insatiable Season 6, Episode 1
Download the transcript (PDF) Many of my clients eat out of alignment with their goals when they feel lonely or alone. Even during times when they’re surrounded by people. In today’s episode, Radical Healing: Break free from loneliness and overeating with naked communication, I invited Sage Hobbs ...
How to break the patterns of your stress response
Last week, I promised a powerful elixir to help break up the three stress responses that cause us to fall off track. The elixir is curiosity to discern: What is the truth today versus how it was in the past? Our minds are incredible at meaning-making. We know the purpose of things like ...
3 stress responses cause us to eat out of alignment
"On the last day of my trip, I went down to the restaurant and got myself a healthy breakfast. And I felt great. I really do enjoy healthy food. Why didn’t I do this throughout my trip?" my client asked during our session. What I helped my client see more clearly was that healthy breakfast was ...
The common thread why people fall off track with eating
Last week, I discussed the difference between starting and stopping habits And if you want to stop falling off track with your eating, you must acknowledge the story that knocks you off the client described “balance beam of healthy eating.” Often, I hear from clients, “Weight Watchers worked for ...
Starting healthy habits vs stopping bad habits
Over the next several weeks, I'm going to share mini-lessons you will be able to use to effect change in your life. Not only will these lessons effect change in general but also your relationship with food. Most health and wellness experts are big on telling you what to do - e.g., don't eat late ...
Eating Triggers: Embody Self-Respect with Brodie Welch – Insatiable Season 5, Episode 7
Download the transcript (PDF) What triggers us to stop our self-care? What's the difference between willpower and habits? In today’s episode, Eating Triggers: Embody Self-Respect, Brodie Welch, Acupuncturist, Chinese Medicine expert, and self-care strategist will teach us how to embody ...
4 Food Freedom Truths at 40 Years Old!
And just like that, I turned 40 on October 1! Per my Dad, "Life’s a bullet train" ... As someone who doesn’t identify much with pop culture, I’m surprised at how 40 feels like a threshold. Not the one our culture wants me to believe, where my worth is like a crashing stock because 40 means ...