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Take a listen to learn if weight loss will happen faster for you through fear or through love. Learn the practical strategies you can implement today to get the weight to come off quicker & how to keep it off for good. https://heatherheynen.com/ Follow me: @heynencounselingandcoaching & @peakproteinrecipes THE AMINO CO. Shop 100% Science-Backed Active Aging Amino Acid Supplements. Use my link and...

Do you find yourself (often at the end of the day) overeating when you had planned to “be on target today” or telling yourself “I’m not going to overeat today….I have a goal for some weight loss so I’m sticking to it today”?!! But, for some crazy reason, as much as you are desperate to lose weight or get healthy in your body, you find yourself in the pantry eating the whole bag of chips or eating...

As a therapist, I use “talk therapy” often and, we talk a lot in this podcast about “thought work” but its important to also understand we have another way that we approach behavior change as well. This is through mind-body exercises and physical techniques to help move healing along quicker as well as help to make desired changes quicker for my clients. If you are a very “in-your-head” person, a...

This episode is going to give you a renewed sense of hope for the ability to get to any goals you may have set this new year and in particular a weight loss goal or new healthy habits goals. If you are listening to this episode right when it was released then you are listening towards the end of January/beginning of February. And this is the time of year where many of you find yourselves having ha...

Today’s episode is all about what to do when your weight starts creeping up. We’ve all been there…we’ve lost a few pounds (or maybe a lot of pounds) and everything seems to be going great! And then over a little bit of time, we notice our pants feeling a little tighter, or if you watch the scale, your average weight is slowing going up each week by a 1/4 pound, 1/2 pound a pound….And often this is...

In this episode we talk about written coaching, what it is, how it works, how it’s different from verbal coaching and if you might be someone who benefits from written coaching. I talk about how journaling, writing and self-coaching through writing can be such a powerful tool along with regular coaching or written coaching for much quicker weight loss and the ability to sustain that weight loss an...

Do you eat to fulfill an unmet need you have? Do you find yourself wanting to lose weight, improve your relationship with food but continue to over eat or binge and not follow through on the behaviors you really want to be doing to get into the body you really want to be living in? When we get clarity around what needs we have that are not being met, we then have the key to unlocking what we need...

Future-you-work is some of the most satisfying when it comes to working with clients trying to lose weight and gain a healthier relationship with food and their bodies. It can be a powerful journey for many of us to dig into this sort of self-reflection. In this episode I’m going to talk about what “future-you-work” is and how to apply it to help you get to your weight loss goal or really any goal...

In this episode we are talking all about aging. How we think about aging & what we tell ourselves about aging can really effect our weight loss and/or health goals. Take a listen to learn if your brain is telling you things about aging that create resistance to weight loss, make it difficult to lose weight and keeps many of us from a “normal”, healthy relationship with food. I help you identify if...

Take a listen to get practical strategies (behavioral & thought-work) on how to follow through on your New Year’s goals once and for all. You will learn specific ways to help yourself follow through on what you really want to be doing every day in order to reach your goal more quickly and create sustainability for life!

The fear of failure is a “core fear” for so many of us. When we hold the fear of failure as a “core fear” we will have a very difficulty time finding success in any change or goal we are trying to attain. This particularly can be applied to weight loss or trying to make changes for better health. Fear of failing is often at the core of self-sabotage and why we so often can make changes and see pro...

This episode leans a little bit more to a practical side of weight loss and weight maintenance and how certain ways of exercising or movement can work better for quicker weight loss, for weight maintenance and for building a healthy relationship with your body. I particularly focus on strength training and how it effects the body in a way that can be weight-loss or weight-gain focused. I talk abou...

Our inner critic is that voice in our head that is always saying critical, often mean, really unkind things to us as we go throughout our days. You will learn from this episode a little bit more detail about this inner critic, as well as why our relationship to this part of us is often the key to quicker weight loss. I also give you practical ways to shift your relationship with this part of you i...

In this episode, I talk about how binging behavior and over eating behaviors is not about excess pleasure or gluttony (which is often told to people who use excessive food or binge with food). But instead these behaviors come from not being able to experience pleasure fully. The belief that society tends to hold is that overweight people (or maybe not even overweight) but people who overeat or bin...

Most people gain weight over the holidays (from Halloween through New Years). I’m guessing you’ve experienced this in the past and would like to keep that extra weight off this holiday season. There are ways to handle the holidays with less stress, less overeating and zero weight gain (and even weight loss if you choose.) Take a listen to learn how. This episode is sponsored by Amino Co. and their...

Take a listen for an easy to understand break down of how the dopamine pathway influences that desire or need or urge to continue to overeat and/or binge. You’ll learn how to lessen the influence of the dopamine response in order to create less of that urge to overeat or binge which in turn leads to weight loss, peace with food and the ability to eat “normally”.

Creating an abundant mindset vs a mindset of deprivation and restriction is a key to getting off that “diet rollercoaster” or “yo-yo dieting” and finding sustainable weight loss. I find that when I can teach and coach my clients on how to start adopting a mindset of abundance, weight loss becomes much easier. When we come from a mindset of abundance, losing weight and our relationship with food an...

When it comes to building optimal health, including losing weight, there is one way that works and works for life and that is coming at it from a holistic approach. A holistic approach to weight loss takes into account nutrition and fitness but it includes so much more. And this “so much more” is what helps us figure out how to actually engage in new food and fitness behaviors and habits that feel...

Taking responsibility for our bodies is often key to get us moving in the right direction for permanent weight loss, food freedom and health. Taking responsibility means really “owning” what the positive and negative consequences of our choices and behaviors are rather than blaming them on external factors or others’ actions. It’s paradoxical but practicing taking responsibility and “owning” our d...

I know that many of us (probably most of us) have experienced feeling excessively guilty after eating something indulgent or eating something that is “not on my diet” or overeating or bingeing. In this episode I talk about GUILT and how this emotion around food and eating directly leads to weight gain. I will explain how this happens as well as give you practical ways to release the guilt so you c...

In this episode we’re getting a little practical and talking about real life, weight loss plans and how realistic plans are what will actually help you lose weight and keep it off for good. This episode is sponsored by Amino Co. and their precise blends of amino acids to help you become stronger, heal faster, reduce age-related declines and improve your overall metabolic health. Use the referral l...

One of the best skills that work for my clients for quicker weight loss as well as for permanent weight loss is learning to stop negotiating with their emotions. Negotiating with our emotions is the habit of feeling an emotion we don’t want to feel and then on top of the uncomfortable or painful emotion telling our self we shouldn’t be feeling that emotion. We then try to “negotiate” out of the un...

Did you grow up being told to clean your plate or have you restricted often enough where now you just “have to eat it all” in rebellion? Or if you go out to eat and pay for meal you think, “Well, I paid for this food so I need to eat this all.” Or maybe you have the thought, “I have to eat it all or I’m wasting food” or simply just “but it just tastes so good”. If any of these ring true for you, t...

So what is a weight loss coach? And what's the difference between a life coach, weight loss coach and a licensed professional mental health therapist or counselor? And how do I know if hiring one could be beneficial for my weight loss goal? Take a listen to find out!

Understanding the components of the framework that produce lasting weight-loss (as well as any changes we are trying to make in life) is important as you give up diet culture and move into this new system of permanent weight loss, food and body freedom and that healthy relationship with yourself! Listen to hear practical examples of changing/pivoting thoughts to create quicker, lasting weight loss...