Feel your feelings
Let’s learn to feel your feelings instead of compressing them with food.
Many of my clients ask why they turn to food when they had a hard day.
Whether you're feeling sad because you've just had an argument with your husband or you're stressed after a demanding day with the kids, you can easily convince yourself why that pint of Haagen-Dazs is a good idea. The only problem is the guilt and shame that comes after the binge.
Many of my clients ask why they turn to food when they had a hard day.
In most cases it’s because they’ve never learned to feel their feelings. They try to rationalize wanting to eat half a chocolate cake and then shame and blame themselves for doing it.
If you're frustrated because you avoid emotions that make you turn to food to cope, rather than processing your feelings and trying to make sense of what your body really needs, I want you to know—it’s not your fault.
We’re taught from an early age to push our feelings away with food. Just like a well-meaning parent who gave you ice cream when you were hurt to soothe the pain instead of allowing you to sit in the discomfort of difficult emotions and experiences. Emotional Resiliency is an under-developed skill that can be taught.
In this two-part course, I’ll teach you how to feel your feelings instead of masking them with chocolate and stop the new diet cycle that comes the next day from the shame of the binge. I will help you to identify your emotions and regulate them so they stop triggering you and you can get off the hamster wheel.
You’ll start to recognize the emotions you feel before a binge and become more conscious about using food to cope with your decisions to turn to food. You’ll feel in control and build a healthy relationship with both food and your feelings.
Holly E
“This course has taught me so much about how my body can help me through intense feelings! I have learned so many tools that I am grateful I don’t have to go even one more day without. They were right here with me all along and they will be right here with me for the rest of my life! Priceless!”
THIS COURSE IS PERFECT FOR PEOPLE WHO:
Turn to food to cope rather than feeling the emotions that make them want to eat.
Struggle with emotional or binge eating and are ready to be empowered around food or over their food choices.
Lack restraint around food and want to lessen the control it has over them.
Have completed course two, How to Manage the Emotional Eating and Binge Cycle which builds upon its teachings to deepen your understanding of why you use food to cope.
YOU’LL LEARN HOW TO:
Identify uncomfortable emotions that make you want to eat.
Stop suppressing painful feelings with food.
Process your emotions so you can start making peace with the feelings you feel and learn to sit with them rather than stuffing them down with food.
Spend less energy avoiding your feelings and start honoring them, so you can regulate and connect with your body.
Separate emotions that cause you to eat versus having a genuine hunger signal.
WHAT YOU’LL GET:
2, 90-minute pre-recorded videos. You'll be able to easily pause, rewind, and rewatch the videos as many times as you'd like.
Written exercises to help you understand what’s happening in your body and why you feel out of control, so you can get back to an optimal state.
A step-by-step guide to help you learn to feel your feelings and connect with your body rather than escape with food.
A daily worksheet to practice the new tools you’re learning.
4 visualizations for you to practice sitting with your feelings to be more in control of them.
To learn from the real-life experiences of past students who’ve attended the live class to help process and apply the material in your own life.
About Natalie
Hey, I'm Natalie, a registered psychotherapist and life coach who's helped hundreds of clients and students get to the bottom of why they use food to cope.
I started this work because of my own struggles with emotional eating which started at the age of seven.
I tried everything from fasting to Nutrisystem, from Weight Watchers to pills, yet nothing worked. That's when my parents decided my only hope was liposuction at the age of seventeen.
You probably know how the story goes. I gained the weight back within a year and was crippled with shame and guilt. I couldn't understand why if I wanted something so badly as being "thin", why couldn't I do it?
Finally, I realized it wasn't about the food. Food was simply my tool of choice for dealing with the uncomfortable emotions I was feeling inside. Once I got to the root of why I was using food to cope, I could start the healing process and begin to see food in a healthy new way.
And that's my hope for you, too.
FAQ’s
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You’re not focusing on the food and trying to control it. You’re focused on connecting to what is underlying your drive for food. This class will support you in releasing the old shame that you have carried so you can start to heal in a new way.
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You’ll have access to ask questions, share your comments and your experiences in a private chat that only enrolled students in Food Is Not the Enemy get to see.
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I believe that when you emotionally eat, it’s because you are using food to cover our emotions. In my experience, you need to learn where there is a void in our lives (usually emotionally) to help us learn why you are turning to food in the first place. Once you learn this, you can learn how to re-establish your hunger signals and mindfully eat since those have been lost along the way.
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This is a self-study course and NOT a replacement for therapy, psychotherapy, or counseling. Therapy involves one-on-one relationships between clients and therapists. This course will help empower you to get to know yourself better, and provide you with tools to implement on your own, in an engaging, self-directed format.
Testimonials
Michele S
“Natalie walked us through how to actually feel our feelings. If you've never done that, it is terrifying but worth it and it gets easier as you go. It changes the game. I learned that I no longer need to shame myself for emotionally eating in any capacity. If you are struggling with food, weight, size, body image, self-esteem, anything really, take this course. If you are looking for another way to approach food, if you are looking to make friends with yourself, take this course.”
Joyce M
Before this course began, I mostly tried to be mindful with food. Since taking the course, I’m aware that the biggest thing for me to do is to connect my body with my brain and to listen to my body. It’s about seeing how the feelings feel in my body and not running from them. What I find so helpful is how calm Natalie is! I want to go go go and think that’s the answer...just go and get it done, when I need to relax...chill...feel my feelings...feel my body with the feelings and breathe! The biggest takeaway from this course was the way it helped me tune into my feelings and to be gentle with them.
Let’s learn to feel your feelings instead of compressing them with food.
Many of my clients ask why they turn to food when they had a hard day.