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Why Food Doesn’t Soothe You and What Does✨. I

Why Food Doesn’t Soothe You and What Does✨. I wanted to share about why food doesn’t soothe you and actually makes your emotional eating worse.

A lot of clients that come into my world are at this place where they recognize they use food to soothe themselves.

They’re having a lot of anxiety or a lot of heightened emotions, and automatically go towards food.

This is a great place of awareness to be at because it means that you’re starting to see the pattern.

When we’re feeling this anxiety or discomfort and have the food it temporarily calms us down. It soothes us.

This is very temporary.

Check out the video for more on what we can do instead!

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I used to think the solution to all my problems wa

I used to think the solution to all my problems was to have a different body and to control it. 
If I diet and exercise then, only then will I be happy because:

1.I’ll be acceptable.
2.I won’t be emotionally eating bc I can control my hunger
3.I’ll finally feel at ease in my body and confident. 
What we are told is very surface level. These surface level solutions make us feel something is wrong with us. There’s nothing wrong with you. It’s just that the system is really broken.

The diet industry and all of the things we’re told from external sources keep us in fear. They keep us going back to these solutions, thinking there’s something wrong with us. They don’t work with us and our body. 
3 Key Areas that We Need to Move Past Emotional Eating 
1/ Nourishment + Digestion is important for 2 main reasons.  
1. Prevents binging.

2. If we have great digestion, that means we’re going to have better moods because our gut is so connected to our brain. If digestion is off, our moods are going to be off.

As emotional eaters we use food to soothe when we feel discomfort. 
Diets are very restrictive; with calories &/or macros. They keep us limited, starving and on the verge of a binge.

2/ 
Body acceptance is coming back to your body, coming back to the rhythms of your body, the energy of your body, and also coming back to looking at the utility of your body, the function of your body, and really looking at what your body does for you rather than what it looks like.

Diet’s tell us that we need to lose 10 pounds and then we’ll be happy. Meanwhile we’re miserable in our bodies and eat to cope with our poor body image.

3/ 
We need to resolve the emotions under the emotional eating because the emotional eating is a coping mechanism. It’s not a resolution.

Once we process our emotions they have no power over us and we stop the emotional eating cycle.

Diets don’t teach you this. They teach you to push past, to bulldoze yourself, to keep going without checking in with how you are feeling.
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All 3 of these together are powerful and needed to move past emotional eating.

Which of the above is missing for you? 1,2 or 3? Let me know in the comments below :)

I don’t just want to feel better, I want to get

I don’t just want to feel better, I want to get better at feeling.

As I do this, I feel better 😉

This weekend I had a deeper realization.

As I went through the layers of some of my limiting beliefs I felt a deep sadness.

We are sold so many limiting beliefs that we take on from parents, society and anyone who can influence us. Limits make us feel tight and contracted, a clenched jaw, shallow breathing, running to food to be ok…

We believe these and find more and more proof.

Meanwhile our inner essence gets layered with more and more beliefs that disempower us.

That makes us feel small, contracted, tight, anxious. That something is wrong with us.

We were meant to feel at ease, to use our emotions to guide us back to calm.

But along the way we learned to live in contraction. It doesn’t feel good but we learned to use coping mechanisms to temporarily feel better and drowned out our true needs and desires.

Living a half life.

The better we get at moving past the beliefs that limit us and get closer to our truth the better we will feel.

So we move through the “discomfort” that is really just giving us information and do the thing that will realign us.

If you’re ready to move past emotional eating and ditch dieting and finally feel at ease around food and in your body (as you were meant to) then book an assessment call for The Emotional Eating Evolution Program. Link in bio✨

I’m so excited to share this client testimonial

I’m so excited to share this client testimonial from The Emotional Eating Evolution Program.

"This program was transformational for me!

Connecting the layers that have fed into my nutritional habits and emotional eating has paved the way for true growth.

I'm excited by the work I've done, new nutritional practices and alleviation of several symptoms I was feeling as a result of not feeding the body what it needed to be the miracle it is!

Thank you Michelle for your guidance and expertise, it is truly appreciated!" -Danielle, Chiropractor

Danielle struggled with emotional eating and using food (candy + pastries) to cope daily.

This started to impact her physically as pain, congestion and inflammation. Through her time in the program she was able to move through her emotional eating, nourish her body and create a sustainable way to move forward if she finds herself in old patterns.

I am so grateful she decided to invest in her health and wellbeing. I loved seeing her transform 🤗

If you’re looking for more support with your emotional eating book a complimentary Emotional Eating Assessment Call. Link in bio✨

Why it’s Hard to Feel Your Emotions | Emotional

Why it’s Hard to Feel Your Emotions | Emotional Eating✨. Today I wanted to share more about why it’s so hard to feel those emotions that are under our emotional eating.

This was something that I struggled with. I didn’t know there were even emotions under my emotional eating.

Emotional eating is a coping mechanism. We use food to cope or soothe ourselves from any discomfort, or uncomfortable emotions.

But the thing is, food is a Band-Aid. So food temporarily gives us relief. It doesn’t actually resolve the emotion, process it or allows us to move it through our body.

I want to share with you more about why it’s so hard to feel those emotions and what to do. Check out the video…

Body acceptance is the precursor to transformation

Body acceptance is the precursor to transformation…

We’re so used to chasing a goal on a scale to feel worthy...

•To feel happy
•At ease
•Ok

But when we learn to accept our bodies we start hearing its’ calls for movement and nourishment that is aligned.

Not from a place of lack but a place of excitement.

I overexercised my body to exhaustion in an effort to look a certain way to be accepted.

When I got this concept I started to workout more. I wanted to
sweat,
move and
get strong
from a place of excitement and expansion.

Body acceptance is not a giving up, it’s a liberation from what you think you should be doing to finding out what you truly want to do.

Right now I’m excited to run 3x a week and do weights the other days. I feel the excitement for a new challenging routine to wake up from the stagnancy of the last year. I miss running as a form of cardio, those YouTube hiit classes are not cutting it.

We don’t need to punish ourselves to feeling good. So let go of your old idea of your body and step into a more empowered version!

If you’re ready to move past body image issues and emotional eating. Book in a call to see if The Emotional Eating Evolution Program can support you! Link in bio.

How emotional eating impacts your development...

How emotional eating impacts your development...

As an emotional eater you use food to:

•distract from emotions
•numb out
•suppress emotions

Essentially to cope (not resolve)...

...there’s no processing there. So you are actually less able to make logical decisions. You’re confused and can’t get a handle on past wounds.

Did you know your prefrontal cortex matures in your early 20’s AND processing emotions is the key to that?

When I started on my emotional eating journey I had to feel it all. It wasn’t easy, I didn’t know what the h*ll I was doing but I sat with myself. I let myself process. I had to re-mother myself.

I didn’t have the same tools I share with clients so it took me a lot longer...

When I do somatic meditations with clients we usually end up in a childhood memory. I use inner child work and parts work staying connected to the body so we can resolve past events and create resolution at the root. We get to the root and transform it.

This is not about a behaviour change to cope. Coping requires gritting your teeth and willpower which has failed you. Am I right?

That’s because these inner parts are powerful. They are deep patterns in our mind. It’s like pulling up a dandelion - the roots are deep, it will regrow. BUT if you get the the root and dig it up, it won’t grow back.

Same with unprocessed emotions and tramas that are driving your emotional eating.

Leave a “❤️” below if this makes sense!

A recent client, after one of her 1:1 somatic medi

A recent client, after one of her 1:1 somatic meditation sessions with me, stopped her evening emotional eating. So far it’s been 4 days in a row and counting.

So how did we do that? Read below for the process…

She’s been in The Emotional Eating Evolution Program for a few weeks.

•She getting support and accountability to move through the process

•She’s been tuning into her true and emotional hunger, finding triggers and making sure to nourish her body. Restriction creates binging so we want to make sure she is not binging due to lack of nourishment.

•She been tuning into her body more, checking for true hunger, and noticing her patterns around meals, and how she views her body + what she says to herself

•She had a 1:1 somatic meditation session with me and that got to a root memory connected to her emotional eating. She stopped eating at night since the mediation and feels so much more calm. Her anxiety was causing her to emotionally eat.

Is she done?

No, she is only half way through the program and will receive more support, guidance coaching and another somatic meditation so we can go deeper.

She is also actively creating a foundation for herself to move out of the dieting mentality and get to the root of emotional eating through...

•True Nourishment
•Body Acceptance
•Emotional Wellness

These are the key pillars in The Emotional Eating Evolution Program and are all needed together and are powerful to help move you past emotional eating and to ditch the dieting mentality.

If you’d like to find out more Comment or DM “evolution” below ✨

~Michelle

How Emotional Eating Impacts Digestion If we’re

How Emotional Eating Impacts Digestion

If we’re eating whenever we’re emotionally hungry as emotional eaters, we’re going to be eating when our body is not physically ready to take in food.

And so why is that important?

We need our body to be in digestion mode because we have enzymes and acids in our stomach that are secreted when we’re ready to eat to help break down our food further after we’ve chewed it.

If we’re emotionally eating, our body is not hungry physically so the body doesn’t produce acid and enzymes.

This creates digestive distress in the body -> which impacts our digestion -> impacts our brain via the gut-brain axis -> impacts our mood -> makes us use food to cope with poor mood (that vicious cycle of *screw it*)

Poor digestion impacts our moods and as emotional eaters we go to food to soothe ourselves.

So we want to start off with truly nourishing the body and making sure we’re digesting food. So starting off with true hunger is important.

Of course those emotions under the emotional eating need to be addressed but I’ll just focus on digestion here. Everything is interconnected.

If you’d like to get in touch with your true hunger, download the free guide “What Are You Truly Hungry For?”. Link in bio.

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