The Emotional Eating Evolution Podcast

Welcome to Emotional Eating trigger season. This is usually the time of year where emotional eating can feel the hardest to manage. I call it emotional eating trigger season for a reason. And if you struggle with emotional eating, you probably know what I'm talking about. The holidays are supposed to be joyful, full of connection, and make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. You're with your f...

So why are you still emotionally eating? Maybe you've gone to therapy. You know your patterns. You know your triggers and your wounds. You understand why you turn to food when you feel rejected, lonely, overwhelmed, criticized, or not good enough. And maybe you can explain your emotional eating, but you’re still doing it. You're still reaching for food when you're not physically hungry...

Have you ever noticed yourself standing in front of the fridge, wondering, “How did I even get here?” Or you started noticing your food noise getting louder and louder? Before you know it, you're heading towards something to eat, and you feel out of control. In these moments, it can feel like something's taken over. You weren't necessarily thinking about food a few minutes ago, and sud...

So how do you actually get to ease and peace around food and in your body? Maybe you've spent years trying to control food to create peace, but it hasn't worked. You thought if you finally got to the certain place physically, you'd finally feel okay. And the noise would stop. One of the things I've learned is that your out of control relationship to food and your body is not necess...

Maybe you've been working with a nutritionist for months, you are trying all the things, you're getting the support, but you keep hitting the same wall with your emotional eating. You're still bingeing at night. You still feel like you're sabotaging yourself at the grocery store. You just can't seem to make things work. So why do you keep hitting the same wall when you feel lik...

You can eat perfectly. You can follow the meal plan. You can exercise. You can lose weight. And you can force yourself into the body you think you're supposed to have. And you can still feel completely out of control with food and emotionally eat. Because eating perfectly doesn't heal trauma. And forcing yourself into a particular body, into the “perfect” box, doesn't heal the reason w...

If you struggle with emotional eating, you may genuinely feel food is the problem. You eat something you didn't plan to eat and you just can't seem to stop. You eat when you're stressed, upset, lonely, or bored. And then you think, “Why can't I just control myself around food?”. So, naturally, food seems like the enemy. But what if I told you something deeper is going on that's...

So they told you to feel your emotions to help your emotional eating. To have compassion for yourself. To stop suppressing your feelings. You sat with your feelings. You sat with yourself. You tried to feel what was coming up. And then suddenly you hear: “What are you complaining about? Your life is great. You've got the job, you've got the house, you've got the car. Other people have...

So what if the shame you feel after you emotionally eat is actually keeping you stuck in your emotional eating pattern? You eat something, you didn't plan to eat. And then the thoughts start. “Why did I do that? I shouldn't have had that. I shouldn't have eaten that. Oh my god, I'm ruining my plan. What's wrong with me? I'll never change.” And underneath all of those though...

So let me guess, you think you emotionally eat because you have no willpower? You have snacks in the cupboard, and you tell yourself, “I'm not going eat them.” But then a stressful day hits, and you beeline to the cupboard. And suddenly, you're eating all the cookies, the chips, the snacks that are in the cupboard. Then this voice comes over you and says, “What's wrong with you? Why ca...

What if your relationship to your body is contributing to your emotional eating? Because if you're struggling with emotional eating and you're unhappy with your body, you might think, “If only I could lose the weight. If only my body looked a different. Then I wouldn't feel this way anymore.” And I used to believe that too. I thought if I could finally change my body, I'd finally f...

What if one of the things keeping you stuck in your emotional eating is your desire to get away from your emotions? So I want to tell you a story about a client of mine who came to me after using plant medicine because she wanted to change the way she felt about food and stop emotionally eating. She had used plant medicine to help her with her emotional eating, and the medicine kept telling her th...

If I had to heal my emotional eating all over again, there are three things I wouldn't do. And if you’ve done these things as well it’s not because you're a bad person or you're failing. It's that we've been sold certain lies. I experienced doing these things, and what I found is that when I was doing them, they kept me stuck in my emotional eating. And I find with clients it&#...

What if I told you one of the biggest reasons you're struggling with emotional eating isn't about the amount of calories you're consuming? It's the way you're thinking about your food. For so many years, we've been taught that food is calories in equals calories out. Control this food. Move more. Eat less. Count everything. Eat this macro. Don’t eat this macro. Essentially,...

Can AI help you heal your emotional eating? Recently, someone left a comment on one of my YouTube videos saying that she had used AI to help her find the root of her emotional eating. As I was reading her message, she mentioned she'd never tried somatic work. What that told me was that, even though she had used a tool like AI to find what she believed was the root, it was still very much a cog...

Have you ever felt like there were two people living inside of you? One part says, “I'm going to eat healthy this week.” Then immediately another part jumps in and says, “Just have the cookies, just do it.” Then another part jumps in and says, “What's wrong with you? Why can't you just be disciplined? Why can't you stick to eating a certain way? Why can't you just have some mor...

So when most women think about emotional eating, they think the biggest problem is the food. Maybe the sugar, the chips, the cookies or the late night binge. But what if I told you food isn't the only thing impacting your health? What if the emotions that are driving you to eat have an even bigger impact? Let’s dive in. 1:11 The effect of food and dopamine on your emotions - it’s a bandaid fix...

Do you ever feel like you're constantly thinking about food? You're planning your next meal. You're thinking, “is this food good or bad”? You’re constantly obsessing about food. There isn’t a moment when something about food doesn't go through your head. You walk past the mirror and think, “oh my god, I need to go on a diet”. And, you think about what you ate at your last meal and...

So have you ever felt like you're doing everything right? You're taking the supplements, working out, you're trying to reduce your stress. And yet your body still feels stuck. The weight won't budge. Your digestion feels off, you're still emotional eating. What if the missing piece isn’t another diet, exercise plan or even talk therapy? What if it's really about the unresol...

Have you ever thought, “I know exactly why I emotionally eat, but I’m still doing it?” You know it's stress, you know it’s loneliness. You know you feel overwhelmed. But why are you still emotionally eating? If you've ever felt frustrated that awareness hasn't created change for you, then this video is for you. Let’s dive in 1:31 Awareness is not the same as healing 2:45 Knowing your t...

Have you ever found yourself at the end of a stressful day reaching for food? You know you're not physically hungry, but you're still grabbing something to eat. You might think, why am I doing this? You've promised yourself you're not going to emotionally eat anymore. You make this promise to yourself, only to find yourself going through the cupboards and looking for something. If...

After helping many women heal from emotional eating, I've noticed something interesting: the women that get the most profound results all have this in common. You might think that these women were perfectly consistent, had no fear, completely trusted the process and were confident from the start. But that's not what I see. Let’s dive in. 1:31 Here’s why fear shows up even after you commit...

If you've been trying to heal your emotional eating for months or maybe even years, and you still feel stuck - this might be the reason why. And it's probably not what you think. It's not that you're not trying hard enough. It’s not that you don't have enough discipline or willpower. It's not that you don't know enough about nutrition. The reason might be that you'r...

A lot of women believe that if they just lost the weight, their obsession with food would stop. And this leads to a lot of women to get weight loss surgery. But what many women are shocked to learn is that while they initially have motivation and momentum after the surgery, and they are losing weight, their emotional eating urges eventually come back. So yes, you can physically eat less, but that...

Sometimes emotional eating isn't about the food. It's about soothing that pain of feeling like you're not good enough - a wound that started in early childhood. Many women who struggle with emotional eating grew up feeling unseen, overly criticized, emotionally unsupported or responsible for everyone else’s emotions. They became the peacekeeper. They learned hat they had to earn love,...