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Body Acceptance and Emotional Eating✨. Body acce

Body Acceptance and Emotional Eating✨. Body acceptance and emotional eating go hand in hand. Body acceptance was something I had to learn on my journey to resolving emotional eating and is key for my clients as well.

As emotional eaters I find we punish and criticize our body.

However, I do believe at the core we all desire to feel good, healthy and vibrant in our bodies.

When you do the diets and exercise to control your body this creates stress mentally and physically which holds onto weight and creates inflammation and other physical symptoms.

Then you use food to soothe you from these uncomfortable emotions and discomfort in general.

So you get sucked back into the emotional eating pattern.

Check out this video where I share more about coming back to body acceptance as the starting point of our desire to feel at ease + confident in our body.

This is why I don’t start with the desire to con

This is why I don’t start with the desire to control weight with clients (even though this has been the number one thing they want.)

What happens when you finally reach the number on the scale and you’re still not happy?

I remember reaching that goal a few times and I was no more confident, happy or enjoying life than before. It was like, “huh, I look better but nothing has really changed”. When the thrill of buying smaller clothes leaves you still feeling like crap you begin to wonder...

I was still full of unresolved issues and when the number on the scale didn’t fix it I was back to my old cycles of numbing because what was the point? Then I’d feel worse and hit up the next diet that excited me. Sound familiar?

Trying to plug one hole and another pops up.

Clients come to me when they have tried it all. It works for a while but it never really solves the deeper issue. The root is still raw and now it’s throbbing.

It’s disheartening that after trying for so long they can’t escape or outsource their confidence, safety or happiness to a number on the scale.

Here we may finally have new questions. I know i did. When I finally realized that the conventional ways had the same pattern and I was frustrated - I had to dig deeper.

This is where I started to connect a lot of concepts. We must transform the trauma held inside, the patterns, as well as the limiting beliefs running the show.

We need to learn a whole new way of nourishing ourselves, body acceptance and emotional wellness. We reprogram and emerge in a way that is authentic to us and perhaps releases the weight ;)

Here we build something that is a solid foundation helping us create the confidence, safety and happiness we’ve longed for in a sustainable way.

We do this inside The Emotional Eating Evolution Program. Check the link in my bio for more info.

Your body is powerful and intelligent. And is a m

Your body is powerful and intelligent.

And is a miracle.

Holding all that you couldn’t feel until you were ready. You protected yourself from this discomfort with emotional eating, criticizing and punishing yourself.

You were able to create a facade of “safety” and now it’s time to heal the root.

Maybe you’re ready now for that next step?

As a teenager I danced for at least an hour a day. It was an outlet but I didn’t know how to just BE and feel good. I didn’t have the capacity to witness myself and validate the anger and sadness I felt.

I couldn’t erect boundaries and had to shrink.

I found some solace/distraction in food, and trying/forcing my body to look a certain way etc.

What I didn’t know was that we store emotions we couldn’t feel. They live in our body until we can integrate them.

When we’re ready and willing to acknowledge them we liberate ourselves.

We free up mental,emotional and physical space to BE.

We’re clear. We no longer hold on to outdated ways of coping, like emotional eating.

We can create from an aligned space and truly meet our needs. Then we’re free to create and live a life from being not coping.

Let me know if this resonates. Leave a ❤️ below.

Emotional Eating + Trauma✨. At the root of emoti

Emotional Eating + Trauma✨. At the root of emotional eating is trauma. It’s something I love talking about and want to share more moving forward.

When I was emotionally eating I realized that my emotional eating was a coping mechanism. And that it was covering up what was really going on for me.

As I dove deeper into my own experience and education I eventually completed a program in Transformational Psychotherapy using a somatic based approach that was trauma informed.

When you have this pattern of emotional eating there is some trauma creating it. Trauma makes us think of extreme events but trauma is on a spectrum.

Trauma is any event that left you feeling unresolved or dysregulated. We were left feeling anxious and not calm at all. You had no way to process the sensations and emotions of that situation.

This leads to coping mechanisms like emotional eating – using food to soothe yourself.

You may have picked up this pattern from parents, caregivers and society because as a society we don’t know how to be with emotions. We tend to sweep them under the rug where they fester.

We are sold the diets and exercise plans but we need to dive deeper. You need to understand where this pattern is coming from and how it’s related to trauma.

I find with clients that these patterns go back to childhood. So when you do a diet or exercise plan you get a surface level solution that is not looking at the deeper issue.

In this week’s video I share more about:
🔅why you don’t have to cope with emotional eating the rest of your life
🔅how your pattern of emotional eating is formed
🔅why you are not sabotaging yourself
🔅Resolving the pattern with emotions as a focus
🔅feeling safe in the body and having guidance and modelling
🔅your highest self and navigating the emotional eating pattern
🔅transformation of the pattern and meeting true needs

In the Emotional Eating Evolution program we cover processing this pattern through a trauma informed lens, true nourishment and body acceptance. All 3 are powerful together and needed to resolve this pattern and move forward in a way that empowers you around food and in your body.

Emotional eating and cravings🍫🍰🍪🍕 I l

Emotional eating and cravings🍫🍰🍪🍕

I love chocolate, like LOVE it but when I was emotionally eating I would inhale a box of cookies, 5+ chocolate bars, 5 servings of cereal cereal in a binge . I loved sweets so much. It was my Achilles heel.

As an emotional eater you usually have cravings for a specific food. Is there a reason?

So chocolate might mean love, cheese might mean you need a change of state, crunchy foods might mean anger, spicy foods mean excitement etc.

I’ve seen and shared that certain cravings can mean we are having certain emotions but what I’ve found is that this is still super general.

If you have a certain craving for these foods, they can give us an indication of what you might be needing or missing in your life. But if you just say, “oh, I’m going to add more excitement into my life because I’m craving spicy foods” that’s kind of a band aid solution. There may be a nuance for you.

So why do we have cravings as emotional eaters?

We usually crave processed foods whether they are “carbs”, or have a lot of fat. These processed foods give us a “high” in that they stimulate or excite our brain. So this makes sense if we are using food to distract or avoid feeling those low or uncomfortable emotions. This becomes a habit and we instantly crave these foods.

So what can we do to really resolve this issue is get to the root. This needs a multifaceted solution because there are many factors.

1.Start with true vs. emotional hunger to see if you are even hungry (guide in my bio)

2.Start to Truly Nourish your body with a focus on strategic digestion so that you are not binging out of restriction or poor nourishment!

3.If you’re emotionally hungry, get to the root of the emotion, process, resolve and integrate it on a body level so you can move out of this pattern powerfully.

It's nuanced. In my program, The Emotional Eating Evolution Program we work through this in a step by step process. We work through the steps above along with a few other things that keep you in the emotional eating cycle.

If you’re ready to get a handle on your emotional eating apply and book in a complimentary assessment call. Link in bio.

How Fear Is Holding you back from Resolving Your E

How Fear Is Holding you back from Resolving Your Emotional Eating✨. I wanted to share about fear because it is what is under all of your doubts keeping you from resolving your emotional eating. Fear is the thing holding us back from creating change. We all have fear and we need to navigate life with it.

It’s only with moving forward will fear dissipate. I see fear coming up a lot with potential and current clients.

Why does this happen?

We live our lives in a comfort zone. We have patterns in our day to day life which let us know what to expect.

As emotional eaters using food is a type of comfort zone. It feels “safe” even though it is not helpful and even harmful to our health.

When we look for a solution that is out of our “comfort zone” our fear comes up. Fear is “trying” to protect us and is a smaller part of us.

The bigger part of us wants growth and to move past this.

To evolve.

This fears inhibits us from our true desires.

As humans we are meant to grow, expand and evolve. There will always be a bigger (more authentic) part of us wanting to move out of this pattern. Isn’t that true for you?

This part wants a solution.

Check out the video for more on how to move through your fear and how you can guide yourself!

Any aha’s? Let me know in the comments!

What emotional eating is really about… When all

What emotional eating is really about…

When all the conventional systems failed me at resolving my emotional eating I had to, HAD to find a better way. I was just in too much pain to give up and I felt defeated for years.

But there is a part of me that keeps on going because I could see others having the relationship to food and their body that I wanted.

Little did I know about how deep rooted emotional eating can be. I wish I could just slap a diet and exercise plan on and be done but that brought me a lot of resistance, pain and feeling like a failure. Time and time again.

When I dug deeper into what was going on and started to understand emotions, patterns, the gut-brain connection as well as our inner dialogue things started to make sense to me.

I put the things I found into practice and over time found that my emotional eating had resolved itself. But I started with one step at a time.

So if you’ve tried everything and still haven’t succeeded, then you haven’t tried everything ;)

Take a look at the image and let me know what is missing for you in the comments!

This is just a snapshot of what may be holding you back from resolving your emotional eating as we dive deeper into this and more in The Emotional Eating Evolution Program. Link in bio.

I used to be the opposite of this quote when it ca

I used to be the opposite of this quote when it came to my emotional eating.

Looking outside of me for the right diet and exercise plan to control the inside. Once I started diving deeper into what was going on I realized…

The only way out is in (with guidance of course!).

Emotional eating is a pattern you developed to help meet your needs. Going all the way back to childhood when you weren’t able to regulate your emotions and found food as a way to cope.

Coping got you this far but to truly heal you need to resolve this pattern. It is only then you will move forward in your life powerfully.

This is not about distraction, positive affirmations, or avoiding with the latest diet trend. This is where you do the deeper work and give yourself what you have always wanted.

I’ve found there are 3 main areas you need to address to powerfully move past this pattern into resolution.

👌🏽True Nourishment to connect your body with true hunger and move past dieting and restriction

👌🏽Body Acceptance to start appreciating your body’s rhythms and ability and to move away from criticism and punishment

👌🏽Emotional Wellness to process and resolve the traumas in the body keeping you in the food to soothe pattern.

Gaining awareness and embodiment of these areas will help you resolve your emotional eating. Are you ready to dive deeper? Leave a ❤️ below.

Why *these* Strategies Don’t Help with your Emot

Why *these* Strategies Don’t Help with your Emotional Eating. This week I wanted to share about advice I was given and that is typically given to emotional eaters in order to stop going to food to cope.

Strategies like walking, journalling, running, talking to a friend or the laundry list of things to distract yourself

While this is well meaning advice it doesn’t get to the root and resolve your emotional eating.

On my emotional eating journey I did all the diets and also went to cognitive behavioural therapy was over a 1.5 years.

I learned to rewrite my thoughts and changed my behaviours but even after over a year I was still using food to cope. My binges actually became worse with stressful situations because I had no real tools that resolved the issue.

I was only able to distract myself. As emotional eaters we use food to distract from our uncomfortable emotions.

Talking to a friend, journalling, running etc is another way we can distract ourselves and we are just moving away from the emotion.

BUT

The emotion is calling out to us to resolve it.

Emotions are produced in our body and if we don’t process them they remain stuck in the body. Each time they are triggered and we distract they grow bigger like a volcano waiting to explode or binge eat 😉

Using distraction tactics is like putting ice cream on top of poop.

We need to validate our emotions and using these tactics we are ignoring our need to be seen, heard and validated.

Maybe you were taught this by your parents? Caregivers or even found this to be a reprieve from getting in trouble…

What is the solution?Check out this week’s video for more on:

•We need a way to get into the body and process these emotions

•What I found that was missing on my journey; feeling safe, modelling to feel our emotions

•How these tactics just repeat the cycle of disconnection.

•Our needs as a human

•Why these tactics leave you feeling numb or agitated and NOT at ease in your body

•more about the modality we use in the Emotional Eating Evolution Program to resolve your emotions in a compassionate way so you feel at ease in your body and around food.

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