May 13, 2024 | Emotions and Eating, How to Stop Emotional Eating, Nourishment and Self Care
I’ve been a coach for a decade now and there is nothing that surprises me around food. I’ve either done it (picked brownies out of the trash to eat), thought it (schemed on who to blame for the binges I didn’t want to admit to), or seen it (night eating included!)....
Apr 18, 2024 | Emotions and Eating
Meditation and Mindfulness for Binge Eating: Does It Really Work? When I first started getting help with my food struggle, mindfulness was the last thing on my mind. Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach & Binge...
Apr 10, 2024 | Emotions and Eating, Nourishment and Self Care, Overcoming Overeating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC Why I Used to Always Think About Food One of the things I desperately desired when I struggled with food was to NOT think about it all day. Late at night when I...
Apr 9, 2024 | Body Beliefs, Emotions and Eating
Releasing Shame and Finding Emotional Freedom I want to share with you how to release shame based on my own experience of overcoming feelings of guilt and shame. You don’t have to stay stuck in a cycle of shame. I hope my story helps you to release your own...
Mar 11, 2024 | Emotions and Eating
Warm weather is starting to hit and those sneaky little thoughts can creep back in… “I’ve gotta lose weight FASTER” “Summer is coming–you better get in shape” “This isn’t happening fast enough–should you go...
Feb 20, 2024 | Emotions and Eating
I often talk about the diet pendulum in relation to dieting and bingeing. The analogy being the Law of Dieting: for every equal and opposite diet, there is a binge (hence the pendulum swinging back and forth.) But how do we stop the swing? And how can we apply this to...
Jan 22, 2024 | Emotions and Eating, Freedom From Dieting, Holistic Weight Loss
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC My philosophy is always to ditch the diet. Diets are restrictive, rigid, and set up for us to fail. If you go on something, inevitably, you go off, left wondering what was wrong...
Jan 22, 2024 | Emotions and Eating, How to Stop Emotional Eating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC, Emotional Eating Coach Work can be a big emotional eating trigger for many women. In my very first office job, my coworker next door had a candy dish filled with...
Jan 22, 2024 | Emotions and Eating
Wondering how to stop boredom and emotional eating? In this post I’ll cover 10 tips that my clients and I have used to put an end to emotional eating that’s caused by boredom. Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach,...
Jan 22, 2024 | Emotions and Eating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC, Emotional Eating Coach In my own journey, working through emotional eating was a key part of my healing. Addressing emotional eating involves acknowledging the emotional...
Jan 22, 2024 | Emotions and Eating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC, Emotional Eating Coach 5 Strategies to Help You Stop Emotional Eating 1. Slow down and be mindful Practice being present and aware during meals, focusing on the taste,...
Dec 6, 2023 | Emotions and Eating
I used to ache for what food did for me–take away my pain, soothe my heartbreak and comfort my inner emptiness. How do we move forward on this path and deal with the “hard” stuff when we miss what food does for us? I’ve talked to countless...
