You’ve had success with reaching your health, weight or wellness goals before, but it never seems to last.
You know what you could be doing but it’s challenging to gear up and get started again. This cycle of stopping and starting feels never-ending and you don’t know why since you want it so badly. You know food plays a big role, but you also realize it isn’t just about what you eat. There’s something else that keeps getting in your way, but you’re just not sure what.
Many diets and weigh loss programs focus on your "why." In this session, we get clear on your "why not."
Why do you know what to do but struggle to stick with it?
Why do you want to work out more but don’t consistently go to the gym?
Why do you tell yourself to stop at just one handful of chips but then finish the whole bag?
In Truce with Food, your “why not” is what we call a story. Feeling out of control with food is a sign that there’s a story driving your actions, often rooted in rigid beliefs of what it means to be “good” or “bad.” (e.g., anything less than exceptional is complete failure.) Through this session, we’ll work on evolving those rigid ideas for more flexible thinking and self-trust that we can work through our emotions differently than we could in the past. And in turn, you no longer need to stuff down the uncomfortable emotions with food.
By identifying your underlying story (aka the why not), you’ll gain a new perspective on how these “bad habits” are trying to protect you. Once you have clarity and get to the root of what’s driving those behaviors, it’s empowering that it’s something that can change beyond just needing more willpower or discipline.
What we'll cover:
See how your "bad" eating and exercise habits are protective and how they keep "bad" emotions and identities locked down
Understand the real root cause of why you "fall off track"
Shift the focus away from more tactics to resist food to you and who you have to become to not battle food
Clearly identify your 'one big thing' goal and how it would improve your life immediately when you reach your goal. (This is not just another SMART goal!)
Diagnose your story so you can see your story as something outside of yourself that can be changed
You will learn new things about yourself during this intensive and jam-packed session.
How others have felt after the session:
“I’m making a conscious effort to take care of myself and fill my emotional and mental cup. I feel like doing the deep dive session allowed me to peel back the first layer of the onion and think about some things that I hadn’t been aware of that were contributing to my out of control eating. I’ve been able to let those things keep simmering in the back of my head while taking better care of myself.” ~Katie M.
"I have never been able to put into words what's been weighing on me. It really helps to separate the feeling of what I've been holding. I feel lighter and a little bit of the "weight" has been lifted." ~Anonymous client
Details:
*Session length: 90-minutes
*Homework to start connecting your story with your unaligned eating
*2 weeks of email support after the session to make further connections between your story and your eating in real life