by Michelle | Oct 4, 2024 | Blocks to Emotional Eating, Body Image, Emotional Eating, Emotional Eating Triggers, Emotional Health, Holistic Nutrition, Trauma Informed
Hello love, If we go back to the beginning and think about what Emotional Eating is – it’s a coping mechanism. We use it to cope with discomfort, distress and uncomfortable emotions that come up. The reason we cope instead of processing and resolving these...
by Michelle | Sep 13, 2024 | Blocks to Emotional Eating, Body Image, Emotional Eating, Emotional Eating Triggers, Emotional Health, Trauma Informed
Hello love, When you emotionally eat it is the tip or the iceberg. You see your out of control behaviour with food, the obsessive thoughts about food and your body, and just feeling out of control and think it’s about food and your body. But it’s so much more than...
by Michelle | Sep 6, 2024 | Blocks to Emotional Eating, Emotional Eating, Emotional Eating Triggers, Emotional Health, Healthy Tips, Holistic Nutrition, Trauma Informed
Hello love, When I was on my journey to resolving my emotional eating the main desire I had was to *just* feel normal around food. I would longingly look at women around me who seemed to not have the same battle I did. They seemed so “normal” around food. They had...
by Michelle | Aug 23, 2024 | Blocks to Emotional Eating, Emotional Eating, Emotional Eating Triggers, Emotional Health, Holistic Nutrition, Trauma Informed
Hello love, I wanted to share more about why tactics like dieting don’t work to help Emotional Eating. When I was on the mission to get a handle on food, I remember being able to stick to this diet plan for a whole year through willpower. But it didn’t give me the...
by Michelle | Aug 16, 2024 | Blocks to Emotional Eating, Emotional Eating, Emotional Eating Triggers, Emotional Health, Holistic Nutrition, Trauma Informed
Hello love, It might seem really obvious why we emotionally eat – we might be feeling rejected, not seen, or heard, validated or understood or accepted. And this creates this discomfort. This shame and rejection that we then go to food to soothe us from the pain...
