inviting curiosity to the table

What if the words you’ve been using to talk about emotional eating are the very reason it keeps coming back?

You’ve tried beating it. Conquering it. Controlling it. Managing it. Tackling it. And yet—here you are.

If you’re a woman in midlife, ... PLOT TWIST!!! In addition to all that, your hormones are shifting, your hunger signals are getting louder (and stranger), and the strategies that used to work … well, they just don’t anymore.

This is not a personal shortcoming but a literacy problem: your body is sending you messages in a language you were never taught to read.

here’s what I know

You eat for reasons that have nothing to do with physical hunger. You reach for food when you’re stressed, bored, lonely, angry, overwhelmed, celebrating, or simply because it’s 3pm on a Tuesday and that’s what you do at 3pm on a Tuesday (or maybe 3pm every day).

You probably have a word for what you’re trying to do about it. And I’m guessing it’s something like “stop,” “control,” “conquer,” or “manage.”

Here’s the thing: those are war words. And if you’ve been at war with your emotional eating for years—how’s that working out for you?

introducing a new language

As a former teacher of Mandarin Chinese and student of seven languages (I know, what?!?), I learned early that language doesn’t simply describe our world—it has the power to create and change it.

The words you use to talk about your relationship with food are wiring your brain for how you experience that relationship.

So here’s a new word to try out: stewardship.

Stewarding means the responsible, loving care of something entrusted to you. And your emotional eating is your body’s way of entrusting you with a message that something isn’t quite right.

If you're shezausted from the battle, join me for a mini program in which we’ll explore in more detail a new vocabulary—and a new framework—for understanding and responding to your emotional hunger.

this is for you if…

• You’ve been “managing” your emotional eating for years, and you’re tired of the battle.
• You’re in perimenopause or menopause, and your body feels like a stranger.
• You eat when you’re stressed, lonely, bored, angry ... or simply because.

what you'll get

• Permission to put down your weapons and take off your armor—your battle with emotional eating is over. 
• A chance to get to know and love your estranged body again.
• The tools to decode your hunger and reframe your relationship with food into a kinder, more sustainably healthy one.

what we’ll cover

• The difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger—and why midlife makes this distinction even more important

• How to identify the triggers that send you straight for the kitchen … and oh yeah, midlife seems to have more triggers than any other season, doesn’t it?
• How to name the emotion underneath the hunger (and if you said, “rage,” it’s okay, really.)
• How to decode what your body is actually asking for
• The 4-stage framework you can use again and again, every time emotional eating comes calling