Hungry for Love: Lose Weight After Toxic Relationships

One of the biggest reasons I've become a life coach myself is because I've seen how it's completely transformed my life.  ☑️ My relationship with food and body.  ☑️ My emotional awareness and capacity to feel ANY emotion. ☑️ My self awareness, reflection, and ability to learn from missed expectations.  ☑️ My ability to own my emotions and actions, and not take on those of people around me.  And mo...

The Reclaiming is a group coaching experience designed to help you: Release emotional and disordered eating and drinking patterns. Heal from emotionally abusive or neglectful relationships. Lose weight without obsession or restriction.  Rebuild a deep sense of self-trust, self belief, and self authority.  Shift your self-concept at the nervous-system level, so that your new habits become a part of...

The #1 emotion to create any result… commitment.   Stay with me now. I’ve struggled myself with this being the answer and I want to offer a different way of looking at commitment.  Not just when things are going well and you’re succeeding, but commitment in the hard times, after the setbacks, after the binge, after the scale not moving for a month.  This is when we dig deeper and find the convicti...

It's normal to go through times of feeling unmotivated.  Sometimes we simply need to step back and process through emotions.  Sometimes we need little hacks to help us start taking action, even when we 'don't feel like it.'  Join me for this week's episode where I share my super simple hack for helping your brain get on board with taking one step forward, no matter how unmotivated or discouraged y...

Understanding your patterns without being able to change them can feel incredibly frustrating… and quietly shame-inducing. But only because we have unrealistic expectations of how habit change actually works.  Awareness is the first step.  But awareness of a pattern or even a new habit you want to implement doesn’t actually create change.  Keep listening as I explain what will instead.  If this ep...

If the idea of setting big goals this year feels overwhelming, exhausting, or completely out of reach, this episode is for you. For some people, January brings motivation and momentum. For others, it brings heaviness, survival mode, or a quiet realization that they’ve been running on empty for a long time. In this episode, we’re talking about why big goals can feel overwhelming — and what to do in...

Believing in yourself is tough.  Believing in yourself after verbal and emotional abuse is even tougher.  So often we have someone else’s negative words in our head, and it can create a lot of self doubt.  (If you missed it, go back and listen to episode 141. Core 4 Wounds of Narcissistic Abuse: Self Doubt.)  Typically someone dysfunctional (and highly dysregulated) had to put YOU down in order to...

No one likes to feel disappointed, but when you’ve gone through emotional abuse, that fear and avoidance is even stronger.  Growing up, you learned the only way you could have value as a person was by pleasing others and essentially preventing them from experiencing a negative emotion.  So if someone was disappointed in you , that was your fault, and thus, your responsibility to “fix.”  I also thi...

Not knowing what you want is not a failure — it’s a survival skill .” That's why I'm hosting a new workshop: F rom Survival to Desire: Crafting Your Future Vision This workshop is not about pressure or performance;  It’s not even about goal-setting. This is a reclamation.  Reclaiming your voice, your body, your life.  From Survival to Desire Workshop is strategically designed to help you go from f...

For those of us who are (or have been):  emotional eaters,  in emotionally abusive or neglectful relationships,  or struggled with your self-worth,  Food, your weight, and people were never the real issues.  *The key problem was the identity you were forced to develop in order to survive.* You learned to abandon your own needs to stay safe, loved, accepted, or chosen. One of the most profound ques...

As humans, we want life to be easy.  We want results to come easily,  We want to lose weight quickly and easily,  We want relationships to be easy.  And yet we have so much experience with marriage, divorce, and weight loss being hard, that we become extremely skeptical when things feel easy.  I noticed this specifically for myself around love and not needing to work for it or earn it.  Just like...

Have you ever had a craving or urge, but you just couldn’t figure out where it came from?  The day was fine, you weren’t overly stressed…  But you just couldn’t resist that urge to eat.  Today we’re diving into this exact topic and how to allow and process even the ‘low-level’ emotions that still drive your emotional eating habit, even if it comes days later.  Because ultimately the emotions you d...

This ‘all or nothing’ mindset shows up in so many areas of life.  This episode piggy-backs off of episode 81 Busting “All-Or-Nothing” Thinking (from March 2023), and highlights how this is a ‘mindset problem,’ which means we need a ‘mindset solution.’  Keep listening as I share how and why this comes up so much during the holidays.  Plus how to break free.  Do you find yourself wrestling with ‘all...

Holidays are often a prime-time for overeating, but they don’t have to be.  Tune in as I share 3 new beliefs that will help you stay mindful while eating all your favorite holiday dishes and desserts. Chapters (00:00:02) - Eat Hungry for Love (00:00:24) - 5 Ways to Cope With Holiday Eating (00:01:38) - How to Handle Holidays With a Divorce (00:03:01) - I Can Eat This Anytime (00:05:59) - How to Ow...

One of my core beliefs is that life should be FUN.  Fun to live, fun to work, fun to lose weight, fun to HEAL.  This is the same attitude I bring to business and working with clients.  I’m opening a rare opportunity to work with me privately now through the end of 2025 , PLUS get all of 2026, and join me for a private, VIP retreat weekend that’s fully customized to you . Keep listening for all the...

The Body You Crave Accelerator group coaching program runs Jan 1 - June 1, 2026.  I'll help you heal from Diet Trauma and Relationship Trauma, so that you can create the LIFE and body you crave.  When you sign up before December 15, 2025, you'll receive the following bonuses:   Weekly private coaching through the end of 2025.   Instant access to all online course content within The Accelerator.  B...

I’ve been thinking a lot about “rules” lately…  It started with my desire to put my Christmas decorations out on Nov 1st.  Because seriously - someone just made up a rule, arbitrarily, that you can’t put it up before Thanksgiving.    But this happens often with weight loss, exercise, divorce, dating.  We want a set of rules to follow, hoping that if we can follow them perfectly, we’ll create the r...

The holidays are often full of sweets - cookies, cakes, pies, candy.  You can’t go far without something homebaked and made with love being shoved in your face (and sometimes in your mouth).  But you don’t have to spend this holiday season missing out or stressing out about what you can or can’t eat.  Today’s episode will highlight common pitfalls when it comes to food and maintaining healthy habi...

What if I told you your people-pleasing habit was really just a desire to control others?  Typically, this desire for ‘control’ stems from a place of survival.  You learned you needed to show up a certain way in order to keep other people happy and avoid conflict, so that they would keep meeting your emotional needs.  But this coping mechanism is only holding you hostage.  Keep listening as I brea...

As we head into the last two months of the year, it’s easy to pull back on our goals, as a form of self protection.  Because if you weren’t really trying, you don’t have to feel disappointed when you don’t lose weight or make progress.  And while you may not quit forever, it’s a little ‘q’ quit.  It’s like a football team giving up in the last quarter, because they’re behind.  Or giving up in the...

Most of us are familiar with your basic nervous system responses: fight, flight, freeze, appease.  But you're likely not familiar with the diet habit associated with each one.  Tune in today for more on how different food patterns play out based on our nervous system reponse.  And remeber:  You haven’t failed. You’ve just been trying to heal with tools that were never designed for your kind of pai...

Everyone experiences some form of trauma in their life, but the bigger question is:  “What will you do with it?”    Because the painful triggers will wake you up.   What is your trauma trying to awaken within you?  You hold the pen. Your trauma just handed it to you.   Join me for this very special guest episode where I dive deep into the world of trauma and healing with AnneMarie Tortorigi.    Co...

Today we dive deeper into the world of trauma, and in particular complex trauma and complex PTSD, and what truly blocks you from healing.    Maybe you feel this constant, heavy overwhelm post-divorce.  Maybe you’re frustrated with yourself, because you can’t even seem to do the simple or easy things.  Maybe you feel like you shouldn’t still be dealing with this; like you’ve left the relationship s...

Today we're diving into the difference between three common eating patterns I help clients address:  1. Binge Eating 2. Over-Eating  3. Emotional Eating  It's important we properly identify / diagnose the right 'problem,' so that we use the right solution.  And if by the end of the episode you're struggling to identify which pattern you fall into, simply send me a DM and I'll help. ;)    To learn...

Your best superpower = learning to love yourself just as much when you’re failing, as when you’re succeeding.  So often we think we have to beat ourselves up and internally “punish” ourselves in some way to make up for the mistake… to teach us a lesson.  But this is a toxic pattern.  This one question has the power to change your entire perspective:  What would it look like to LOVE myself more now...