Overcoming Emotional Eating

Pacing yourself, knowing when to surge and being consistent. The biggest thing we can focus on in pacing ourselves is our breath. Breathing regularly rhythmically. Eating and breathing are correlated, if you do not breathe deeply you will need to use food to regulate your breathing. If you do not breathe deeply regularly. You will need to use food to help you regulate that breath. The truth is how...

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about having grace with ourselves, having patience, having kindness, having love, having empathy, supporting and nurturing ourselves and why that's so important.

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about how do you sit with your feelings without finding comfort in food. Sometimes our feelings are uncomfortable. Sometimes things we do or say or have to hear are uncomfortable. We have to learn how to sit with and through those things, trusting that innately we will come out on...

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about the feeling that we're all going for. The feeling that makes us feel alive. We all want it. We all seek it. We can seek it in good ways or in bad, in addiction or in health. But we all seek that feeling. And the reality is food can come in the way of that.

"The only limit really is you. And the more you learn about yourself, the more limitless you will be." So why do we quit when we're ahead? Why do we quit when we're winning? One of the biggest reasons why people move into this pattern of quitting when things are going well is because of fear . We tend to not really think about fear coming up when things are working well. We only really think of fe...

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about stress relief and stress relief patterns. So many of us are reaching for a feeling and instead we put food in its place. It doesn't necessarily belong there. It's the feeling that we're striving for.

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down. Make peace with yourself before you move forward. -Roy T. Bennett Things that can help you move forward: Acknowledge what you've done - You have to acknowledge it in a formal fashion. So if it's with yourself, right, that might be using a journal and writing to yourself what you'v...

I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent, caring for myself is an act of survival. -Audre Lorde. Selfcare can look like more sleep . Reading a book can be another way of self-care. But if you use it to distract or isolate, not the right way for you. Having a stress plan .  Finding your creativity. Another great way to care for yourself, whether it's painting, pottery, pl...

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client regarding one of her six human needs and how it's driving or in this case, not driving her to eat. Those six human needs are certainty, uncertainty, significance, love and connection, growth and contribution. And in this episode, you'll hear how a woman puts the pieces together in...

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking a little bit more about human needs, psychology, and the six human needs that are driving forces of why we do what we do now. How do they contribute in our life or what do they contribute in our life.

The human needs that drive the why of what we do:   Certainty An individual who feels that need for certainty can't be happy when things are uncertain around them or with them. People that have certainty as a primary need focus on stability, on habitual routine routines, on looking at that that real routine-oriented thing, as well as the organization and putting their energy into organizing things...

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about living into her new body. When we change our body, our mind needs to catch up. Our mind and body always need to be aligned in order for us to feel settled, grounded, and congruent. It's imperative for our mental and physical health.

“The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life takes place.” ― Barbara De Angelis Two ways to find your way back home: Logistically - where are you going? how did you get off track and what happened? Emotionally - Psychology  

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about hunger patterns and identifying whether you're really hungry. True physiological hunger or are you needing some other kind of stimulation to help with some emotional reprieve.

In today's call, you'll hear me talk about body image distortion and how specifically you can work with it while you're in the change or after the fact. As people lose weight, as we lose weight, or we change our body in whatever way that might be. Our old body image gets stuck in our minds, and sometimes it's really different. To let that weight go. The weight of our old body image, the weight of...

We forget that there is a letting go. Sometimes that needs to happen. In order for our soul, for our life, for our desires, for our psyche, for ourselves to be free. And if we stay stuck. And don't quit. We are only staying imprisoned. In our own beliefs. And never really finding the flight of freedom that our soul, psyche cells, and being want. And we know it from the infinitely right. When we fi...

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about celebration or reward, what heartfelt/heart space/hear opening rewards are really about, finding and implementing it in your life.

"Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways." - Sigmund Freud The difference between emotional hunger and physical hunger. We know that emotional hunger comes on suddenly it hits you in an instant. It feels overwhelming and urgent. Physical hunger, on the other hand, comes on more gradually. Emotional hunger craves specific comfort foods. An...

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a patient about moving towards your why and recognizing its importance.

Working with your own tread patterns. Assess where they are coming into play for you how often and in which direction? does it fuel your eating? Understand where the obstacle is.

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a patient about discovering your stress patterns and where do you hold them in your body.

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a patient about connecting the dots when it comes to your weight, your body, your food, your eating, your relationship with yourself and your food patterns.

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a patient about listening to your body, listening to how we feel, where we hold our stress and where we feel the emptiness.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy - Friedrich Nietzsche

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a patient who is trying to reset their patterns, changing those behaviors that have formed into patterns that disenable us.