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Learning a New Way of Being to Move Past Emotional

Learning a New Way of Being to Move Past Emotional Eating✨. I wanted to share more on why we need to (re)learn a new way of being with our emotional eating.

When clients come to me I sense they think it should be easier to resolve their emotional eating. I mean what’s marketed is to eat a certain way and exercise. It seems simple but when they fail, they feel stuck.

We need to understand what is going on and find a new way to move forward. Because emotional eating is when we use food to soothe ourselves. It becomes a coping mechanism.

Part of the reason we develop this coping pattern is that we learned it from our parents, caregivers or even in society at a young age.
When we are younger, we literally absorb these patterns and they become ingrained and automatic in our brain. So reaching for food in times of stress becomes automatic.

As a society we are taught to suppress our emotions, repress them, think positive or eat something to feel ok. We don’t deal with the emotion and use these bandaids. What we’re missing is true resolution.

Once we realize that these patterns are deeply ingrained we can have more compassion for ourselves and understanding.

This understanding helps us to see we need a new way of BEING. Check out the video for more!

This weekend I failed…a lot This past weekend I

This weekend I failed…a lot

This past weekend I tried a few new things and ended up failing.

I made a recipe that my son hated…

I made a cookie that I mixed up the measurements and it came out as a pie.

I had the crazy idea to work on a video and couldn’t get the camera in the right position. I tried for 3 days.

It was frustrating but I had a vision of what I wanted.

So….

I got better after each failure. I made pasta for my son, remade the cookie and found some guidance on the camera set up.

It felt amazing that I just kept on going until I had what I wanted!

This is how I was with my emotional eating. I kept on trying and tweaking things and going deeper because I knew there was a way out. Of course throughout the journey there are moments you feel like crap but the vision keeps you going.

My clients experience this as well and it’s the most gratifying moment when they just get it!

It all clicks! Ahhhhh

You can tell you grew and there is no going back ;)

So let me know below with a ❤️ if you are committed to your vision of resolving your emotional eating?

Why are you experiencing resistance? Do you keep

Why are you experiencing resistance?

Do you keep coming up with excuses? Or like every step you try to take, it’s like walking through mud?

A common pattern I see with those wanting help is resistance. Resistance seems so innocent until we can’t just do the thing we need to do.

Why are you experiencing resistance? Well when we want to change something and it is not familiar it can make all our defences come up.

We start doubting ourselves, making excuses, delaying, etc.

Why?

This is in an effort to stay safe - but we’re really not safe because this part of us has an old strategy of keeping us safe but with unhealthy coping patterns.

So we avoid, distract, make excuses, emotionally eat.

What is really needed is to integrate this part. If we don't our emotional eating will keep happening. And that is uncomfortable, right?

This is where it can become tricky if you don’t have support. This voice is so loud and has been there for so long.

Because that part of you trying to keep you safe and protected is in effect making you sabotage yourself.

This is not about willpower, it is about integrating this part of you and finding out how to meet your true needs and move towards your desire to feel at ease around food and confident in your body.

Only then will you be able to move forward in an empowered way.

In The Emotional Eating Evolution Program the somatic meditations are key to integrating this part on a deep level in The Emotional Wellness phase. If you’re ready to resolve your emotional eating, book in an Assessment call - link in bio.

Why Commitment is Important in Resolving Emotional

Why Commitment is Important in Resolving Emotional Eating✨. Someone recently asked me what was the main thing that kept me going on my emotional eating resolution journey. When I reflected on it, it was my commitment.

I was committed to resolving my emotional eating no matter what – even though I kept hitting walls and rock bottoms for years!

I had a deep desire to move forward in my life, there was a fire moving me forward and I was not going to give up.

I knew deeply that something more was going on. Even though I kept hearing the message from the world that something was wrong with me or my body, deep down I knew there wasn’t. There was something more that I didn’t know.

My intuition kept me going.

My Journey looked crazy…but I was committed 🙂

Honestly, looking back my journey was quite messy.

Check out the video for more on my journey + what I realized I needed to commit to in order to resolve my emotional eating from the root!

You don't have to like or love your body. I remem

You don't have to like or love your body.

I remember years ago going to a psychiatrist in university and she told me to just “love myself’. Ya know go get your nails done.

I was completely confused how this was supposed to help me. It felt so frivolous and superficial.

It’s hard for me to get on board with surface level solutions and back then I didn’t know the deeper layers but I did know that advice was not going to work. fyi I don’t get my nails done professionally lol

This just made me think about the random advice we get given time and time again from someone that really doesn’t get it.

I couldn’t *just* love myself or even my body for that matter. That’s why when I found body acceptance I could get on board with it.

After years of punishing and criticizing our bodies or ourselves a manicure is just not going to cut it.

Body acceptance is not about liking or loving your body. It is about being more neutral and accepting where you are at. This is the starting point to making a true transformation. This is the starting point to appreciating your body now and going towards your “healthy” body.

It’s also about learning what your body truly needs in terms of rituals and how it functions and fluctuates. This leads to more and more acceptance.

You’ll no longer feel you *should* look, function or be a certain way ALL the time. These shoulds also drive restrict/binge cycles and emotional eating.

From here you connect more and more with yourself, you feel more at ease in your body.

This is a key phase in The Emotional Eating Evolution Program along with true nourishment and emotional wellness. These keys together help you resolve your emotional eating from the root. If you’re ready to resolve your emotional eating from the root - book in a call. Link in bio.

Food is not just for soothing... I was looking ba

Food is not just for soothing...

I was looking back at some old blog posts I did when I started having a healthy relationship to food.

Food became interesting, flavourful, a way to create a healthy body.

For so long food was the enemy, how may calories, how much I couldn’t eat.

It was restrictive. I was trying to control food as a way to control myself, control my emotions but of course that doesn’t work.

Control only makes the thing you want to control grow bigger.

I want to let you know that you can have a healthy relationship to food and your body. I’ve done it myself and so have my clients...

Recently a client of mine went to her friends house and enjoyed the food without guilt. This is a win. She is progressing. In the past she would have felt guilty ashamed and like something is wrong with her.

That’s the beauty of this journey. You make progress.

It’s not about making food only for fuel or only for comfort. Here we find a new way. Food absolutely should taste delicious and be health giving + pleasurable and sometimes it is for mostly just for pleasure.

Of course our relationship to food is healed when we get to the root of our emotional eating by truly nourishing ourselves, accepting our body and doing the emotional work.

We do this inside of The Emotional Eating Evolution Program where we resolve emotional eating at the root so you can finally feel confident in your body and around food. Link in bio for more info.

The Root Solution to Emotional Eating✨. I wanted

The Root Solution to Emotional Eating✨. I wanted to share more about the difference between treating symptoms vs. the root cause of emotional eating.

Most emotional eaters want to get a handle on their emotional eating but use surface level solutions to treat the symptoms.

Symptoms like:
•feeling out of control of your body
•feeling out of control of your hunger
•not enough will power
•weight gain
•inflammatory conditions (like pain, diabetes, etc.)
•digestive issues, etc.

You might think diet and exercise is the solution. They are surface level solutions but they don’t get to the root.

When you use these surface level solutions and they don’t work you feel defeated + like a failure and your willpower runs out. So you give up and start the cycle all over again. This was my story too.

Check out the video for the roots you need to address to resolve your emotional eating so you can finally feel confident around food and in your body!

Emotional Eating and Digestion I remember one inc

Emotional Eating and Digestion

I remember one incident of feeling so gross, stuffed, bloated and greasy after another binge that I sat in the shower trying to find some relief. My body was sick of this pattern again and again. I felt ashamed and like such a failure.🤦🏽‍♀️

The after effects of emotional eating is usually guilt, shame, and digestive issues like bloating, feeling stuffed and like there is a rock in your stomach.

Digestive issues and emotional eating go hand in hand. When we emotionally eat we are eating when our body is not physically hungry and also going for more processed foods. This doesn’t give our body the right circumstances to secrete digestive juices in our stomach or enzymes.

When this happens we create digestive issues like bloating, gas, constipation, etc.

To add insult to injury poor digestion impacts our mood. We create neurotransmitters in our gut. Poor digestion > poor mood > more emotional eating and the cycle continues.

So what can we do?

1.Learn the difference between true and emotional hunger.

2.Eat in a way to nourish the body and is strategic for digestion to rebuild our gut health (which helps with mood).

3.Process and resolve the emotions under the emotional eating from a body level. We do this with somatic meditations with psychotherapy tools in The Emotional Eating Evolution Program.

These steps help with removing (in)digestion as a cause of emotional eating. You’ll start feeling at ease in your body and around food✨

How is your digestion on a scale of 1-10? Let me know in the comments below!

If you’re ready to resolve your emotional eating and finally feel confident around food and your body - book in an Emotional Eating Assessment call. Link in bio.

Are you committed or looking for the next quick fi

Are you committed or looking for the next quick fix?

Someone asked me a while back - what was the “thing” that helped me with my emotional eating. All I could think of was that I was committed.

There was a part of me that just knew there was more to this...

IF you commit to the deep work you will get the lasting results you crave.

But you must first be willing to let go of all the quick fixes.

Maybe you’ve already discovered that they don’t work. The results don’t last.
Your motivation runs out and you need another hit.

You think you know all the diets and maybe you do but still nothing lasts to help your emotional eating. No matter how much fat you eat, protein or carbs you cut.🤯

Here in this disheartening space an insight might come to you - that perhaps these quick fixes and the avoidance of committing to deep healing are the real issue.

When I hit this point in my journey I realized I had to commit to the deeper inner work. I let out an exhale, I knew deeply this was what I needed.

I had to move past that part of me that wanted a quick fix, that agitated part.

I found mentors and books to help me along the way. To remind me to come back to my commitment. I learned ways to navigate and integrate the part of me that was anxious for the quick fix or magic bullet.

If you’ve been here for a while, I used to share more quick tips, recipes and routines but I’ve found that I am just feeding the part of you that wants the next “hit” without a sustainable change or a container to guide and hold your growth in.

I am here for your evolution, for that version of you that is confident around food and her body and feels grounded and safe. That’s why I created The Emotional Eating Evolution Program.

Because that version is what will go beyond food towards her truest desires.

Let me know on a scale of 1-10 how committed are you to moving past your emotional eating? Comment below or DM me!

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