Self-Care Isn't Selfish
How to fill yourself up without food
In order to change your relationship with food, you need to change your relationship with self-care.
For so many, rather than self-care being their primary source of relaxation and unwinding, they turn to food instead.
In order to change your relationship with food, you need to change your relationship with self-care.
Yet, many of the women I work with feel guilty about taking time out for themselves.
They tell me they’re too busy taking care of everything and everyone else, that there’s no time or energy left for them. They’re not sure how to implement self-care into their busy lives.
In this 90-minute course, I’ll teach you how to rewire your brain and learn skills to help you work through the guilt of taking time for yourself. Most importantly, you’ll learn what emotional self-care is and how to get your own needs met without relying on food.
Fiona S
“The benefits of taking Natalie’s course are much more than food. I feel you can apply the techniques taught to all aspects of life. Breathing and grounding calm me in all scenarios. This course has helped me learn many things, like I need self-care/self-kindness/time for myself as when I apply this time I function better in the world. It makes me happier and more grounded.”
THIS COURSE IS PERFECT FOR PEOPLE WHO:
Feel guilty about doing something just for them.
Are drained from doing everything for family and friends that when it comes time for themselves, they have no energy.
Want to work on loving themselves enough to put themselves first.
Turn to food for fast, easy comfort hoping to fulfil an emotional need followed by a lot of guilt.
YOU’LL LEARN HOW TO:
Implement self-care strategies into your busy life that support you without the guilt.
Stop using food to fulfil your emotional, physical or spiritual needs and create a practical, soulful self-care plan instead.
Set boundaries, find your voice and use it in a loving way so you can finally get your needs met.
Build your self-care toolbox so you can implement concrete strategies to make changes in your life right away.
Release the guilt you feel for putting yourself first and recognize that self-care isn't selfish—it's a necessity for healing all aspects of your life—your relationships with family, friends and food.
What you’ll get:
A 90-minute pre-recorded video so you can pause, rewind, and rewatch the video as many times as you’d like.
A resource guide to follow along as you go.
A daily worksheet to practice the new tools you’re learning.
A guided visualization to help you let go of the guilt and learn that supporting your own needs is not selfish.
To learn from past students’ real-life experiences 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.
Sophie W
“The biggest thing I’ve learned is that it’s the little daily actions that add up. It doesn't have to perfect – there's no perfect end point. What keeps me participating is Natalie's incredible knowledge and intuition into somatic healing and working with the heart, not the head.”
How to fill yourself up without food
In order to change your relationship with food, you need to change your relationship with self-care.