Mastering Emotional Resilience: A Real-Life Example

In this week's episode, we delve into a powerful real-life example that highlights the connection between emotional eating and our responses to challenging situations.

Join us as Marchelle shares her recent experience that brought her face-to-face with emotional eating, unprocessed grief, and the path to transformation.

Here’s a taste of what you'll discover:

🌟 Marchelle’s real-life example of emotional eating and its impact
🍰 Understanding the significance of acknowledging and embracing negative emotions
🍽️ The role of food as a buffer and its implications
🙌 Strategies to overcome shame and ask for help
💡 Powerful techniques to handle emotional triggers
🍫 Understanding the connection between emotions and food choices
🌱 The journey of personal growth and self-compassion

Ready to take charge of your emotions and reshape your relationship with food? Join us on this engaging exploration of self-discovery and growth.

Stay empowered and make the most of every moment!

Episode Highlights: 

 (18:54)  Ice cream I can have in my freezer. It doesn't bother me at all. But if there's cake around it’s different for me. There are just certain foods, or drinks, maybe it's soda. Everybody's brain responds differently to different things. Just get rid of it. It's such a decision to just say “I’m just getting rid of this”, and then our brain's gonna scream for it, and the answer's going to be no, there's not this possibility, and it just makes it so much easier.

(22:54) This is the underlying problem for so many of us, think about what happened when you were a young child; we were trained from a very young age that our negative emotions were wrong. We are all told big girls don't cry, right? That we shouldn't feel sad, we shouldn't feel grief, we shouldn't feel angry, we shouldn't feel jealous, we shouldn't feel stressed. We were trained that because these emotions are painful, we need to get rid of them as quickly as possible, and we were trained to use food to do that.

(27:12) When I started paying attention to what I was feeling and honoring it, I felt this huge sense of relief. It was a sense that there was nothing wrong with me, I'm a human being. I'm living a human experience, and all of these emotions that I'm feeling are completely natural and appropriate.