Making peace with food
Creating Emotional Freedom with Every Bite
Out of the hundreds of women I’ve coached, they’ve all got one thing in common: they’ve got a lot of rules around food and eating is rarely an enjoyable experience.
From crash dieting to food restricting. Food obsessions to addictions. So many women I’ve coached can’t remember what it feels like to eat and not feel anxious or guilty.
They eat mindlessly in front of the TV or while surfing their phone. They force themselves to finish their meal without thinking if they like it because that was the rule growing up. They’ve spent most of their lives fearing food, learning to control it, or just seeing it as numbers on the plate.
They know that food is fuel for the body but they’ve never taken pleasure in eating it because of the constant binging, restricting, controlling or guilt.
In this 90-minute course, I’ll teach you how to eat with pleasure and awareness, feel deeper satisfaction with your meals and ditch the all-or-nothing mentality so you can have a healthier relationship with food.
Courtney N
“Natalie’s approach has provided a mindset shift for me. It helped make emotional eating “something I’m working on” instead of “something that is controlling me, and running my life, and I’m a terrible person because I have this problem.” Understanding that this will likely be life-long work for me helped me accept myself and where I am at. This in itself has helped me with my emotional eating.”
YOU’RE A GREAT FIT FOR THIS COURSE IF YOU:
Tired of counting calories, weighing and measuring everything you eat and want to feel more joy and freedom at mealtime.
Stuck in a sabotaging food cycle like starving yourself all day then binge eating at night and want a healthier relationship with food.
A slave to food (always planning or thinking about your next snack).
Eating mindlessly without thinking about whether you enjoy it or what it tastes like.
Recovering from damaging diet culture and eating makes you feel guilty or stressed.
In a war with food and you’re ready to finally make peace.
IN THIS 90-MINUTE COURSE, YOU’LL LEARN:
Tools, tips and strategies to help you enjoy your food without fear or judgement.
How to feel nourished and satisfied after a meal without obsessing over calories or any other food drama.
Small tricks and suggestions to help you slow down and eat with awareness so you can savour the experience and tune into your body’s natural cues.
Your beliefs about food so you’re able to recognize and change behaviours that are sabotaging you.
A whole new perspective around your relationship with food so you can experience more freedom with food and your body.
What you’ll get:
A 90-minute pre-recorded video so you can pause, rewind, and rewatch the lesson as many times as you'd like.
Resource guide to follow along and take notes.
A worksheet to help you figure out why food has so much power, and help you practice bringing love, joy, and connection to your food.
Two guided visualizations to help you learn to connect with the food you eat and reframe your relationship with food.
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 (and not feel so alone).
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.