Influencing Thought & Normalizing Dysfunction
How do you create true freedom from food drama? How do you claim your personal power?
You are allowed, you have the right, you have the freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do and exist how you want to exist – and to want to look how you want to look.
Part of standing in your personal power comes from understanding how other people are trying to influence your behavior, influence your pocket book, influence your mindset – all of those things. When you can stand back and you can really look at a situation eyes wide open, and see what’s going on – then you can decide from a place of empowerment, how you want to engage.
People try to influence behavior all the time. Everyone does it. It’s it’s part of life. What is really important is where it shifts from trying to influence behavior to influence how you think – especially about yourself.
How Diet Culture is Normalized
Are you in charge of your own thoughts and beliefs about your body and yourself?
Are you sure?
This episode illustrates how complex systems – including economic profit motives and slick psychological marketing – influence your thoughts and sense of self like you never imagined.
“Empowered” Emotional Eating and Weight Loss
Why is it so hard to come to a place of peace and acceptance around your body and your weight?
This episode offers a conversation on “emotional eating” like you’ve never heard before.
By the time you are done listening, you will never think of “emotional” eating in the same way. You will have all of the nuanced perspectives and mindset shifts – and perhaps even the skills and tools – to heal this painful issue once and for all!
What COVID Quarantine Taught Us About Our Relationship With Food
When COVID quarantine hit, the internet filled up with jokes about refrigerators and weight gain. But those jokes weren’t really about food. They were about the pain we all carry around our bodies — pain that no lock down created and no diet will fix. Here’s what that moment revealed about our relationship with food and our bodies.
What Do You Eat? Answering the Questions I Get Asked Most
Most questions I get about food and weight loss come from inside the diet-and-exercise model. But my answers come from somewhere completely different. Here’s what that means — and why context changes everything about the answers you’re getting.
Why “It’s Not About the Food” Is Only Half True
“It’s not about the food — it’s about the unresolved emotional stuff.” That’s pop psychology 101 for emotional eating. And it’s half right. Here’s the half nobody talks about — and why eating disorder treatment programs accidentally keep people stuck by making it about the food all over again.
How My Grammy Gave Me the Food Crazies — And the Strength to Heal Them
My Grammy passed last weekend. And I realized that this entire methodology — Happy Calories Don’t Count — grew out of healing relationship dynamics that I learned from her. Here’s the legacy she left me, both the painful parts and the beautiful ones.
Why “What Can I Do to Feel Better?” Is the Only Weight Loss Question That Matters
People are always surprised when I order french fries. They assume Happy Calories Don’t Count is a permission slip to eat whatever I want as long as I’m happy about it. It’s not. Here’s what it actually is — and the simple four-step process that replaces every diet you’ve ever tried.
Why Emotional Eating Isn’t the Problem You Think It Is
Everyone treats emotional eating like it’s a character flaw. But what if it’s actually smart? Here’s why eating to feel better might be the most natural, connected thing you can do — and why the “diet and exercise” model has it completely backwards.
The Emotional Eating Myth That’s Actually Making Things Worse
Everyone thinks they know what emotional eating is — and everyone thinks it’s bad. But the definition most people are working from is based on a completely false premise. Here’s what emotional eating actually is, and why the real problem is something else entirely.