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Send us Fan Mail Do you ever feel like giving up?  I sure have. A lot in fact. I’ve felt like giving up on diets, on school, on projects, on crafts, running, and on coaching and counseling. This feeling of giving up is natural and you are not alone.  In this episode I am walking you through how not believing in yourself leads to wanting to give up. I’m sharing how you are not the problem when you...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is focusing on counseling vs coaching and the power of the group dynamic.  As we prepare for the Emotional Eating Revolution that begins Jan 24th, I've been talking with some of you about the program and the following questions keep coming up.  What is coaching and how is it different from counseling? What does that mean for you?  And why are you doing group coac...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to 2022 and the 30th Episode. I believe everything starts with a thought and to change our behaviors, those things we see on the outside, we change our thoughts and thought patterns. This means becoming aware of them, and my job as your fairy godmother is to help you notice these thoughts and see how they are affecting you. This is your key to having the life you want. In...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Friend!! Welcome back to the show!  In this episode I am joined by Ilene Leshinsky, a fellow psychotherapist in the non-diet space. Ilene is the best-selling author of Reflections of a Fat Girl and the founder of Find Body Freedom (formerly BodySense), a program for women who want to change their relationship with their bodies. For twenty-eight years, Ilene has practiced as a...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the show and happy December! I have been sitting on this gem of an episode for 2 months. And today I finally get to share it with you all! This episode I am joined by Marina Maier. What started out as an attempt to heal almost 30 years of her own unhappy relationship with food and body, led her to my training as an Eating Psychology Coach and to starting her Coaching Pr...

Send us Fan Mail  In this episode we are talking about habits. How they are created, how they are strengthened and how we can change the ones we don’t want to keep. Each morning, as part of my routine, I read the memories Facebook keeps for me. There are some from many years ago that have me cringing for how steeped in diet culture I was. But most of the time I enjoy reading about where I was at t...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Friend!  Welcome back! In this episode I got together with my friend and colleague, Vanessa Preston. Vanessa and I met during our professional non-diet mentorship. It was an honor to sit down with each other and discuss our views on the comparison trap, how women can stop comparing to each other, and how shame ties into this. Mentioned on the Show Register for the Mindset Make...

Send us Fan Mail I am so excited for this episode!! I had total fan girl going on with Holly so this was a great experience for me for personal reasons.  Holly Paulsen is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian in private practice. Her practice is focused on providing nutrition therapy for clients with eating disorders and disordered eating. As a Certified Intuitive Eating counselor Holly...

Send us Fan Mail Hey friend! This is another episode I am excited to share with you. Ok, let’s be real, I’m always excited to share episodes with you! Let me tell you why I’m excited for this one, I know there are listeners all over the world, so I’m trying to bring on guests from across the globe. This episode I am joined by Sindi Kachuck, a Toronto based holistic nutritionist.  Sindi is a mom of...

Send us Fan Mail If you've been around awhile you know how I feel about negative thoughts and limiting beliefs. If you're newer you'll soon learn how these two things are holding you back from making change in your life. In this episode I am talking about the negative voice inside our heads. The one that fuels all those negative thoughts and is keeping you stuck and miserable.  I’m...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I am joined by my friend Kirsty Lyon.  Kirsty is one of my favorite humans and any time we get together I walk away feeling so much better than I had at the beginning. We met during a breathwork facilitator training and just clicked.  Kirsty is a trauma informed breathwork facilitator and holistic healing guide. After using holistic modalities and breathwork to ove...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to episode 21: You might be a perfectionist if.... And what you can do about it. Hello. My name is Sabrina and I'm a perfectionist..... it's been 9 hours and 23 minutes since my last need to be perfect.... (brownie points if you email me knowing this reference) These days I say I'm a recovering perfectionist because I no longer feel those urges as much and s...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I am joined by my friend and colleague Kim Hagle. Kim is a certified Personal Trainer, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, mom of four and founder of Radiant Vitality Wellness.  Kim hosts The Joyful Movement Show podcast and through her signature program “Discover Joyful Movement”, she helps women who feel unmotivated to discover what moves them through intuitive mov...

Send us Fan Mail Hey there and welcome back to The Emotional Eating Therapist show. I’m glad you’re here.  This episode features my second sleep expert guest.  You might be wondering why I brought on two gals who do similar work. Well, that’s a good question. 1. We learn differently from different people. You may resonate with one person more than another and therefore learn more, even if the two...

Send us Fan Mail I’ve been hearing from you that you aren’t sleeping well. So I thought I’d bring on some guests to talk about sleep and hopefully shed some light on why you aren’t sleeping and what you can do about it. This episode I am joined by Caryl Ayearst. Learning to solve her own insomnia problems actually led Caryl to become a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Certified Sleep Science Coac...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are talking about self care. Which is the starting point for all of my upcoming guests in Oct and November. The term is self explanatory and I hear so often that  you, friend, are not practicing self care regularly because you have no time.  Let's change that! Today! I created 5 simple steps to creating more time in your day to practice self care. Listen in...

Send us Fan Mail Hey! It’s episode 16 and today I am doing something different on the show. As promised I said I’d be mixing things up to add more value to your listening.  In this episode I am joined by Gillian Yuan is an Intuitive Eating and Body Acceptance Coach for Moms. With a background in healthcare, she empowers moms to break free of the mental noise of Diet Culture, so they can eat normal...

Send us Fan Mail I had the idea for this episode many weeks ago. I remember thinking “I should write this or record this right away so I can speak from the moment.”  The thought of that, of sharing how I was really feeling in that moment scared the shit out of me. And so what did I do??  I avoided it. I found all these other things I needed to do first. I had to finish the Intuitive Eating series,...

Send us Fan Mail Friend, let’s chat about movement and gentle nutrition, principles 9 & 10 of Intuitive Eating. In this episode I walk you through healing your relationship with moving your body and your relationship with food. We go over reasons you may have learned to hate exercise and moving your body and how you can learn to move in ways that feel good, increasing your motivation to move....

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are covering principles 7 and 8: cope with your feelings without using food, and body respect. Principle 7: cope with your emotions without using food.  I fully believe you can use food to cope and when it is your only source of coping it will lead to more misery.  I shared with you the continuum for emotional eating: from sensory gratification to using food as...

Send us Fan Mail This episode covers Principle 5 & 6 of intuitive eating. Feeling our fullness and discovering the satisfaction factor. We talk about diets leading to membership in the clean plate club and leading to overeating. One way to address this is the hunger fullness scale.  We then talk about fully enjoying our foods and how to get the most satisfaction out of our meals. Tribole and R...

Send us Fan Mail This episode covers Intuitive Eating principles 3 & 4, making peace with food and challenging the food police. I’m talking about these two together because they go together like Cinderella and Prince Charming.  Raise your hand if you think of foods as good or bad, healthy or junk foods, and if you put the words SHOULD, HAVE TO, or NEED to in front of certain foods. I was there...

Send us Fan Mail This episode dives deeper into Intuitive Eating Principle 1: ditch the diet mentality and principle 2: honor your hunger. I share how diet culture is a sneaky villain, constantly shifting to get you to buy into it. Diet culture does this to support patriarchy’s attempts to keep us small and contained. I’m tired of playing it safe and being small. We were meant for more, friend. We...

Send us Fan Mail Samantha writes: Ok Sabrina, I’m ready to give up dieting for good. But how do I know what to eat if I’m not on a diet or following a meal plan?” Listen in as I discuss how to learn to listen to your body so that you can eat intuitively and NOT follow a meal plan. This may be your introduction to intuitive eating. Or it might help you understand intuitive eating more on a deeper l...

Send us Fan Mail I’ve been hearing from several women how they’d love to put an end to dieting, transform their relationship with food and their body, and finally look and feel like they have their shit together but are concerned about spending more money on another program. Maybe you’re one of them. I get it. I once added up all the money I had spent over the 20 plus years of dieting I had done....