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Why Intuitive Eating is not the Best Approach for

Why Intuitive Eating is not the Best Approach for Emotional Eaters✨

I wanted to share more on intuitive eating for emotional eaters as it can be confusing. It’s not to say that intuitive eating is wrong. It’s where we want to end up but it’s not the best place to start.

I’ve spoken with women frustrated trying this approach and going towards foods that don’t make them feel good. It’s hard for them to discern their intuition from their emotional hunger.

I can totally relate because when I was on my own emotional eating journey I threw the diet rules out the window and ate whatever I wanted. I had just moved to Korea and was eating a lot of fried foods, etc and didn’t feel any better.

This made me realize I didn’t feel good at either extreme. I had to find a better way.

For an emotional eater that has a coping mechanism in place it’s hard to just be intuitive unless you have practical steps to start building up your intuition.

Check out the video for more…

Growth is not linear… My growth looked very up

Growth is not linear…

My growth looked very up and down as I went through my own emotional eating journey. Trying and failing again and again.

When I finally felt I was on track it was not smooth sailing. I still had some emotional eating but was able to catch myself sooner and sooner and had the tools to meet my needs.

I was committed to the journey. I knew it was possible for me because I saw other women had a healthy relationship to food and their body.

This kept me motivated but it also took me many years to figure out the “how”. Now I see clients get to this place in a few months. They finally feel they understand their pattern and have the tools to move past it. The feel at ease in their body and around food along the way as well.

This is because the emotional eating coping pattern is deeply ingrained. Through guidance, learning how to nourish + accept the body and the deeper work in the somatic meditations we are able to resolve and reprogram that pattern so that you are meeting your needs on all levels physical, mental and emotional.

So remember, It is so possible to resolve your emotional eating and with guidance this process can progress more effortlessly :)

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P.S. If you’d like a deeper understanding of your emotional eating and how you can finally resolve it check out the free on demand seminar in the link in my bio :)

Why those self care or self love practices don’t

Why those self care or self love practices don’t resolve your emotional eating.

I love self care and the concept of self love but we can’t just slap together some tips and tricks and feel better and resolve our emotional eating.

This is on the surface and the what needs to be resolved is deeper.

I remember being told to just love myself and get my nails done.

I remember being told to just switch this behaviour for the next.

While I was able to make changes <sometimes> there always remained the struggle underneath.

I was disconnected from myself.

I always teach clients to check in with their body every step of the way. Of course if there is resistance we work with it to integrate it and then check if what they are doing aligns. I ask them if they feel good, and they will know when it all clicks.

We are all different but the guidance and tools I provide clients help them learn more about themselves and their nuances. We’re all different but the same lol

For instance learning to tell the difference between true hunger and emotional hunger or even hunger cues puts the power back in your hands for when to eat, not a schedule.

Accepting your body and it’s rhythms makes you understand how you function and why punishing and criticizing will not work.

Diving deep into unprocessed emotions in the body (which is trauma) and meeting that part of you that needs your presence it not the same as saying I love you in the mirror. But when you do that deeper work you can look in the mirror and say that without force.

My method is about getting to the root because when we get down to that place that needs us there is no pushing or fight. Yes, we need to put in the initial effort but it is so much less than fighting ourselves.

If you’re ready to get to the root of your emotional eating and resolve this pattern check out the links in my bio to get started :)

How your unprocessed emotions are creating ailment

How your unprocessed emotions are creating ailments in your body✨

I wanted to talk about the deeper implications of emotional eating and how it’s impacting your body.

On my own emotional eating journey I had various issues including digestive issues, pain etc. But the biggest pattern to resolve was my emotional eating.

When I work with clients they have emotional eating + a whole host of other issues.

Emotional eating is when we use food to soothe ourselves and distract from uncomfortable emotions.

Unprocessed emotions live in our body.

Emotions are chemicals that are released in the body and when we don’t process them they stay stuck in the body in certain areas. We feel this stuckness as tension, contraction, tightness or aches and pains.

Over time we have deeper issues come up because of this, like aches and pains, tightness, joint pain and disease that becomes chronic.

Chronic stress is perpetuated if we don’t resolve these deeper issues in our body.

Check out the video for more on how to start resolving this.

We’ve been taught to look outside, to run away.

We’ve been taught to look outside, to run away.

To the next diet, exercise plan, pill, surgery, etc.

If we were taught how to truly listen and look inside we would know what to do.

The old ways of a magic bullet and finding the latest trick falls flat.

I feel it happening. We are desiring true change.

But to truly change we must go deeper.

I see this time and time again with clients when the deep root of their pattern comes to the surface, change happens, there is no going back because they can see what was really needed all along.

The pieces start making sense.

It can be very sobering in the best way. We can start to create what we want from a solid foundation not quicksand.

Feel into that, one is sturdy and calm the other chaotic and confusing.

BUT…

We’re taught to listen to how much we should eat, when to eat, this macro is good, this bad. To satisfy a calorie quotient not hunger.

We’re taught to burn x amount of calories and look a certain way because it will make us feel good. Will it?

We’re taught to think positively, or pretend we’re tough and strong because emotions are weak. Are they?

All these contribute to emotional eating, and feeling out of control around food and our body.

What if…

What if we could satisfy our hunger, know when we were using food to soothe, and eat in a way to support our mind + body + mood?

What if we could accept our bodies and tap into it’s wisdom, and know how to feel good in it?

What if we could feel safe with emotions, process them, resolve them and hear their wisdom or the limits we have and then use that information to truly meet our needs?

Life would look very different. Life would feel different. There would be no need to emotionally eat to soothe ourselves anymore.

I see this with clients all the time, things start making sense and they start feeling at ease in their body and around food.

And it’s possible for you too! If you’d like to dive deeper check out the resources in the link in my bio.

Your Fear of Emotions is Getting in the Way of Res

Your Fear of Emotions is Getting in the Way of Resolving Your Emotional Eating✨

I wanted to touch in on emotions and our fear of feeling them. Emotional eating at the core is really about emotions. We forget this because we are sold the diets and exercise and willpower.

I was the same way – I thought I had to control my body to control my emotional eating and everything I tried was an external solution.
But what I found as I dug deeper was that at the core of emotional eating are emotions. (Duh!)

We were set up…

Our society is set up to distract us from our emotions. To not know what emotions are, to not be with them, and to dismiss them. And one of our distractions is food!

BUT Emotions are information and data about our environment, experiences and can give us insights and limits we have.

When we shut them down they get louder. And then we go towards food to soothe and distract from them.

This fear of our emotions is keeping us stuck.

Check out the video for more on how to finally feel safe with emotions and resolve your emotional eating.

Are you resisting change because you don’t want

Are you resisting change because you don’t want to be “that” woman?

I had a client recently ask me how to deal with this - if you’re out w your partner - you don’t want to be high maintenance right? You want the burger and fries, right?

Maybe, if that makes you feel good. But what’s really going on here?

Well, this is more about shrinking, being nice and dishonouring your needs which can lead to emotional eating.

I used to go out to dinners w friends ignoring my body’s need for rest. So I’d over eat and feel like crap.

When I started to change…

I was made fun of for my work lunches day in and day our because I loved how huge dense salads made me feel.

I was mocked for eating vegetable crudités at a wedding before dinner and asked if I was on a diet.

I would ask the kitchen to give me all the veggies if I couldn’t find something on the menu that would make me feel satisfied.

Noticing a pattern here lol

Why? Because I am “that” woman. I am that woman because I hated feeling shitty in my body, feeling deprived and bloated at dinner, and emotionally eating.

I changed because I live in my body and I know how I feel. The way I eat makes me feel good whatever the external label. I like nourishing myself, I love veggies and I know the difference I feel physically, mentally + emotionally when I honour that.

It’s not to say don’t eat the burger and fries but if you do it to accommodate others or the “shoulds” in your mind you reinforce that you are not worthy of your needs of nourishment.

And sorry (not sorry) but needs are needs for a reason - they are vital to you thriving and feeling good.

You’re also teaching others it’s ok to neglect your needs.

We work through these boundary issues in The Emotional Eating Evolution Program. Sometimes you shift by hearing my perspective and experience and sometimes we dive deeper with the somatic meditations if need be. The goal is to get you to a clear empowered place where you choose what is right for you ;)

Are you afraid of being “that” woman but ready to change? Let me know below👇🏽

How Emotional Eating Starts + Why a Multifaceted A

How Emotional Eating Starts + Why a Multifaceted Approach is Needed✨

I wanted to share with you the deeper pattern of emotional eating so that you can understand why we need a different solution to what is conventionally told to us.

As I’ve worked with clients I’ve seen that this pattern usually comes from childhood. We learn to soothe ourselves with food.

Emotional eating is when we use food to avoid or distract from uncomfortable emotions. It is a coping mechanism and is an addictive pattern.

So, we need to understand the deeper roots so we know how to resolve it.

Check out the video for:

-more on creating a coping pattern in childhood
-how we start using food to cope
-solutions that don't work
-what we need to resolve our emotional eating from the root

“I haven’t emotionally eaten in 5 days and if

“I haven’t emotionally eaten in 5 days and if I have a piece of chocolate I can stop. It’s like it doesn’t interest me anymore…”

I had a session with a client this week and after lat week’s somatic meditation session she didn’t have the urge to compulsively eat chocolate and candy in the evenings even with Halloween this past weekend.

Of course there was more we did behind the scenes but I find these somatic sessions to be so powerful. Here we get into the root and use inner child work, parts work etc to help resolve the pattern.

BUT

This client also worked on truly nourishing her body, discerning true from emotional hunger, noticing her digestion and how her body felt with certain foods. She was not bingeing out of restricting food.

She didn’t blame and criticize herself when she didn’t like the number on the scale because she was committed to the deeper process of understanding her body and implementing rituals to help her with her mood and hunger levels.

She started to feel more calm and happy in her day to day life even with her emotional eating and she could discern when she was emotionally eating more and more.

Of course we have had a few somatic meditation sessions to really move through the stuck emotions and resolve this coping mechanism and her progress is amazing!

She still has a few sessions but I know she is on track and I’m so excited to see her how her ease increases🤗

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If you’re committed to resolving your emotional eating with support + guidance - book in a complimentary Emotional Eating Assessment call - link in bio.

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