Emotional Eating Solutions:

About your feelings

Were you taught not to feel your feelings? Perhaps you didn't feel safe enough to feel anger. Perhaps you were not permitted to feel joy. Likely, if you have issues with food, you have learned to use it instead of feel whatever you're feeling. Feeling your feelings a really important skill to...

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Emotional Eating Solutions, Overcoming Overeating:

Why Triggers Matter

Why Triggers Matter

The last two posts have focused on why understanding and managing your triggers aren't crucial to changing your behaviour with food. If you missed them, you can read them here and here. Today I want to talk about why triggers do matter. I can boil it down to 2 words: You matter. You are more than a...

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Emotional Eating Solutions, Overcoming Overeating:

The Gift Beyond Your Triggers

The Gift Beyond Your Triggers

My previous post was about why triggers don't cause your overeating. I explained that there are potentially thousands if not millions of triggers - and you would drive yourself nuts if you tried to isolate and resolve each one. It would keep you trapped in thinking about food and your body forever. In...

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Becoming a Peaceful Eater:

Goals, imperfection, falling & learning

I'm so delighted today to share with you a guest post, from Liatt Granott - thank you, Liatt! We all have goals for ourselves, which is great. Having goals motivates us to better ourselves, to strive for more for ourselves. But often, these goals such as “I won’t binge any more” do not leave room...

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Becoming a Peaceful Eater:

One question to transform your relationship with food

One question to transform your relationship with food

This is a very simple, yet very profound idea - and it's one that, if asked consistently has the potential to transform your relationship with food, and indeed yourself! What if you were to ask yourself this one question before you eat something. What might happen as a result? Here's the question: Do...

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