Episodes
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You’ve Done the Therapy. You Know WHY You Emotionally Eat. But You’re Still Doing It.
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,...
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Why Emotional Eating Feels Like It Comes Out of Nowhere (And how to heal this pattern).
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...
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How Do You Get to Ease and Peace With Food?
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…
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Why You Keep Hitting the Same Wall With Emotional Eating
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...
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You Can Get “The Body” and Still Struggle with Emotional Eating
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...
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Food Isn’t the Enemy: What’s Really Behind Your Emotional Eating
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…
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Why “Just Feel Your Emotions” Isn’t Helping Your Emotional Eating
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...
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Your Shame Is Keeping You Stuck in Emotional Eating - Here’s How to Get Unstuck
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…
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The Real Reason You Emotionally Eat
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…
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How Being at War With Your Body Is Triggering Your Emotional Eating
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…
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How Avoiding Your Emotions Can Keep You Stuck in Emotional Eating
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....
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If I Had to Heal My Emotional Eating Again, I'd Never Do These 3 Things
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...
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The Diet Lie That's Keeping You Stuck in Emotional Eating
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....
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Can AI Heal Emotional Eating? Here's What I Really Think
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…
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The Real Reason You Can't Stop Emotional Eating: Your Protective Parts (And How to Transform Them)
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...
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It’s not *just* the food you emotionally eat that impacts your health…it’s the emotions you hold in.
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…
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Why You Have Food Noise - And How to Finally Quiet It (For Emotional Eaters)
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...
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Why You Can't Lose Weight Until You Heal the Stress Beneath Emotional Eating
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...
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I Know My Triggers - Why Am I Still Emotionally Eating?
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...
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Why Can't I Stop Emotional Eating When I'm Stressed?
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...
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The Clients Who Get Sustainable Results with Emotional Eating All Have This in Common
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....
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This Is Probably Why You're Still Struggling With Emotional Eating
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…
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Why Weight Loss Surgery Won’t Stop Obsessive Food Thoughts or Emotional Eating
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...
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The Mother Wound, Not Feeling Good Enough & Emotional Eating
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...
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Why Dieting, Fasting, and “Starting Over” Triggers Emotional Eating
Have you noticed that every time you start a new diet, a new eating plan or intermittent fasting, you end up thinking about food so much more? Or even emotionally eating? I know that in these moments, it can feel like you need even more discipline. But what's actually happening has nothing to do...
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Why Acceptance Is the Missing Key to Healing Emotional Eating
If you've been trying to fix your emotional eating by controlling it, stopping it, or just getting rid of it - and it's still there, this might be the reason why. What if the thing you've been resisting is actually the doorway to your healing? Let’s dive in: 1:51 How not accepting yourself keeps...
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Why You’re Still Struggling With Emotional Eating (Even After Doing All the Things)
So maybe you've gone to therapy. You understand your triggers. You're not new to your emotional eating pattern. Maybe you've tried intuitive eating, you've done the work, and you're still feeling frustrated. Even if you've tried some of these approaches and they’ve lessened your emotional eating,...
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What Actually Changes When You Heal Emotional Eating (Beyond Just Food)
So what actually changes when you heal your emotional eating beyond just food and your body? It's not just about stopping bingeing or eating “normally”. It's really about having more ease, peace, inner confidence - and the sense of sovereignty and freedom. Let’s dive in: 2:30 When you’re no…
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Why Your Lack of Boundaries Is Making You Emotionally Eat
If you struggle with emotional eating, this might not be about food at all. It might be about your lack of boundaries. And not having them is exhausting your system more than you realize. So this isn't about blaming you. Most ambitious women weren't taught about boundaries and meeting their…
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Why Intuitive Eating Didn’t Work for Me Until I Healed Emotional Eating
Many women move from dieting to restriction to intuitive eating, and something still feels off about it. They still experience food noise, emotional eating, confusion, and hunger - maybe even weight gain. So intuitive eating works best when you've healed your emotional eating. And I know that…
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Most Common Questions I Get about Emotional Eating - Answered
Emotional eating is something that women struggle with privately, but the same types of questions come up time and time again. So today, I want to answer some of the most common ones I get from clients. So let's dive in. 0:22 Why do I keep emotionally eating, even though I know better? 1:21 Why...
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It’s Not Always What You’re Eating that Triggers Emotional Eating - It’s the Way You’re Thinking
Have you ever eaten something and immediately spiralled? It wasn't really about the food - It was what you were saying to yourself about it after that spiralled you. Emotional eating isn't always triggered by the food you're eating. It's triggered by the thoughts you're thinking about what you're...
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Trauma & Emotional Eating: Why It’s Not What You Think (And Why It Doesn’t Have to Be Scary)
Today we're going to talk about how trauma impacts your emotional eating. So when people hear the word trauma, they often think of something catastrophic, and they don't want to talk about it. But trauma is not a bad word, and trauma is on a spectrum. Yes, of course, sometimes trauma can be…
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Why Emotional Eating Is a Regulation Strategy (Not a Food Problem)
If you've tried dieting, therapy, willpower, intuitive eating and you're still turning to food, then this video is for you. Because emotional eating isn't a food problem. It's a regulation strategy. And once you start to understand that, everything starts to make sense. Let’s dive in 2:00 How...
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The Pendulum Swing: From Dieting to Intuitive Eating - And Why Emotional Eating Still Remains.
Have you noticed the pendulum swing? So have you noticed the pendulum swing from years of dieting to intuitive eating, where you eat whatever you want but your emotional eating still remains. You might be asking yourself: I stopped dieting, why do I still feel so out of control? This really isn't...
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Why Does Food Feel Like the Only Place I Can Get Relief?
So you might be asking yourself, why does food feel like the only place I can get relief? With a lot of emotional eaters, this is something that comes up. They haven't found something to replace their emotional eating. So today, let's dive into why it feels this way. This isn't about you lacking...
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When Insight Stops Working: The Missing Piece in Emotional Eating Healing
You can analyze your emotional eating. You can know your triggers. You can go to therapy. And yet, emotional eating can still show up. This is one of the most confusing places to be, because you have so much insight and awareness and yet nothing is actually shifting your emotional eating. So you...
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Shame and Emotional Eating: Why You Feel Out of Control and What to Do About It
Have you ever found yourself eating when you weren't hungry and just feeling so out of control around food and just beating yourself up afterwards? If you have you're not alone and the real driver isn't food, it's shame. So today I'm going to unpack how shame plays a role in your emotional eating...
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Why Emotional Eating Persists Even When You’ve Done the Work
So if you're someone who's disciplined, self-aware, who's genuinely done the inner work, and it still feels like you struggle with emotional eating, and then this video is for you. And I just want to say it's not because you're lazy, undisciplined, or failing. There's so much more to this. I…
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Why Weight Loss Drugs Like Ozempic Don’t Stop Emotional Eating (What Actually Does)
So if you struggle with emotional eating, at some point, you might have wondered, would this fix it? Maybe you've seen Ozempic or other weight loss drugs and thought “maybe this is a solution to my issue”. You see these drugs everywhere - on social media, in the subway, maybe even recommended by…
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Why You Feel So Out of Control With Food (What No One Ever Explained to Me About Emotional Eating)
If you've ever found yourself thinking this about your emotional eating: “Why can't I stop going to food?” “Why do I feel so out of control?” “Why do I keep it together in other areas of my life? But food just takes me over and I spiral and I just can't seem to get a handle on it?” And you've…
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Why Quick Fixes Don’t Help You Stop Emotional Eating
So we all want quick fixes, especially when it comes to things that feel really painful, like emotional eating. And I get it. I tried all of the quick fixes I could find when I was going through my own emotional eating journey. I tried the diets, I tried the personal trainers. I tried the…
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Why New Years Resolutions Don’t Work for Emotional Eating
We're heading into the new year, maybe you're thinking of trying a new diet, or starting a new resolution to heal your emotional eating. If you've ever set a resolution to “fix” your emotional eating and you feel like you fail a few weeks later, then this video is for you. Resolutions fail for a...
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Emotional Eating feels like a food problem but that’s just a symptom of something deeper.
If you think emotional eating is about the food, think again. Most women are trying to fix a symptom, and they're not actually resolving it at the root. I get it. I've been there, too. I struggled with emotional eating, and my clients have as well. So emotional eating can feel like it's a food...
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How to Get Through Emotional Eating Trigger Season
If you feel like you're emotional eating intensifies during the holiday seasons, you're not going crazy. There's a real reason why this is happening. This season tends to bring up old patterns and emotional eating is one of those big patterns. Let's dive in and explore why this happens and what…
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Emotional Eating - The Invisible Wall Holding you back from your Goals
Emotional eating can feel like an invisible wall that's holding you back from your goals. And if you're an ambitious woman, you've probably been trying all the things to help you move past this wall. It can be frustrating because you can succeed in many areas of your life, but this one thing…
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What you need to understand about emotions as an emotional eater…
The word “emotional” is right there in the name “emotional eating,” so it’s clear that it’s deeply tied to our emotions. But I don’t think we always recognize just how deeply connected it is. Emotional eating is a coping mechanism. It’s a way we deal with our emotions when they arise. We use food...
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From Daily Emotional Eating Binges to Calm and Ease - Kelly’s Journey
Today I wanted to share a client spotlight. If you've ever felt trapped in your emotional eating and like nothing's working no matter what you do, this is going to be helpful. You’ll see how it’s possible to go from daily emotional eating binges to ease and calm. I'm going to be sharing my client...
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Why Food Was Never the Problem: My Journey Resolving Emotional Eating
If you're an ambitious woman who has spent her life succeeding and reaching for goals and achievements and it feels like emotional eating is something you can't fix, like you can't seem to control food or your body - It’s not that you're broken. It's that you learned that control would get you...
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How Diet Mentality is Triggering Your Emotional Eating
You're not broken because you can't stick to a diet. What if I told you that sticking to diets and having a diet mental is actually triggering your emotional eating? If you've ever told yourself “I'm going to start again Monday, I'm going to stick to the diet”, and you end up eating all of the...
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Helping ambitious women resolve their Emotional Eating from the root so that they can feel at ease around food + in their body sustainably.
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Michelle Lall
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