YOUR RESULTS ARE IN!
The key emotions that trigger your emotional eating are SADNESS & LONELINESS
WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW FOR A QUICK GUIDE TO YOUR RESULTS
Eating out of sadness or loneliness..? Tell me more.
The day that lies ahead feels like an uphill battle, even though it has not fully begun yet. So many responsibilities that you’d prefer not to have to face.
You feel down and pretty lonely. In days like today, it seems like few people truly care or even understands you. If you could, you would want to just curl up, grab some comfort food, and watch a movie. Read a book. And not respond to anyone’s demands—not the kids, not from work.
But before you know it, you are stopping by your local coffee store and grabbing the extra large Frappuccino with a toasted bagel or blueberry muffin.
Or if you don’t feel like leaving your home, you find yourself in the kitchen so many times trying find the perfect snack that would ‘cheer you up.’ Even though you know it really does not exist.
Eating out of sadness and loneliness do have its drawbacks though..
But as soon as (or even before) you finish eating whatever food was handy and available, you realize what had happened—once again, you tried to drown your sadness and loneliness with food..
Another cycle of shame, and guilt, and disappointment starts. You feel embarrassed of what others might think (if they knew). Tired of the way eating as a way to manage your emotions chips away your confidence, your power, your trust in yourself. What started because you wanted relief ends up being a huge burden.
OK, so I get what is driving my emotional eating. Now what?
Understanding what motivates our desire to eat when not truly hungry is one of the most powerful tools to regain control over our emotional eating.
Here’s a tip that can be helpful—if you can work toward developing the awareness of why is it that you are heading to the kitchen (or stopping by the drive through) when feeling sad or lonely, that’s huge.
A powerful question we can ask ourselves in the moment may be: What void is the one I am trying to fill with food right now? Our sadness or loneliness may run so deep and food becomes a way to alleviate, to lift, the heaviness of these feelings.
It is key to ask these questions with compassion, knowing that there is nothing wrong or bad about what you are doing
Food might have been for us the way in which we try to meet a need. Perhaps the need for feeling engaged and connected instead of lonely or left out.
To get a handle on your emotional eating in a long-lasting way we need to shift the way we relate to the feelings that trigger our emotional eating in the first place— does this make sense?
This may involve relying on new emotional regulation skills that allow us to manage our sadness or loneliness (or any other triggering emotion) without over-relying on food. More on this topic below.
But wait —you may be thinking—who is this lady and why is she qualified to help me with my emotional eating?
Hi, I’m Dr. Claudia
and life has just shaped me this way— drawn to help others in their journeys and with a passion for the mind-body connection.
My life shaped me to be drawn to help others in their journey of life and with a passion toward understanding the mind-body connection. This calling left me no choice other than to become a licensed therapist.
Helping others overcome and conquer their patterns of emotional eating is a significant part of my work in the world—and one that is near and dear to my heart. I help people by bringing awareness and insight into how our emotions trigger our behaviors (in our case, eating).
The path toward freeing ourselves from emotional eating may not always be smooth…
but with the proper guidance it can be not only doable but liberating.
Whether it is having having a contained space to look deeply at how this dynamic is impacting your life, developing insights that can sustain you as you make different choices, or gradually developing the vision of who you can be if food were not to be center stage in your life, I am here to help.
READY TO DELVE DEEPER? GRAB MY 75 MINUTE-LONG ON DEMAND TRAINING ON WHAT SUSTAINS EMOTIONAL EATING AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT.
Deepen your understanding of the complex dynamics underlying emotional eating and learn additional emotional regulation strategies
so that you are better equipped to navigate urges and cravings when they arise.
Price: $27
In this in-depth training, you will:
Gain clarity about the forces that drive your emotional eating and why we often have a mixed feelings in relationship with food.
Understand why it is so hard to leave this behavior behind and let this knowing soften any critical inner voice that may exist in your mind about this behavior
Become more aware of the high price that you are paying for this behavior, allowing this deeper awareness to guide you to consider new possibilities
Learn emotional regulation strategies that you can rely upon to navigate your emotions so that you don’t need to rely on food that much any more.
Start to imagine alternative ways to relate to ingrained patterns of thinking and feeling so that you’d feel less of a need to resort to food to lessen emotional pain
What others are saying…
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“Once in a while you encounter someone who by her personality and skills is truly able to make a difference in the lives of others. That’s who Claudia is—warm, empathic, caring, and impeccable in all what she sets out to do. With Claudia you’ll never have a doubt of whether she will deliver—she is passionate about helping others live fuller, more meaningful lives. Claudia has always been committed to alleviating others’ pain, empowering her clients to blossom into the persons they want to become.”
— Nicole C.
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“Dr. Claudia is a trustworthy source of knowledge and genuine care. Her passion for improving the lives of others comes through in all her work. Claudia gives her all, and is certainly skilled at balancing the appropriate doses of empathy, and working side by side with her clients, with owning a leadership role to help her clients move toward their goals. She is of impeccable character and I feel fortunate to be in her sphere of influence, learning by her example and work ethic.”
— Caroline G.
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“Claudia embodies core values that translate into all the work she does—a deep sense of responsibility, a strong commitment to work toward enhancing her clients’ well-being, and overall a profound sensitivity to the needs of others. The empathy with which she makes contact with clients and the generosity in sharing all she’s got to support them in their path is striking to me. It is this deep commitment what has made Claudia immerse herself over the years in learning about the human condition, knowledge that she now skillfully pours into her work.”
— Magela M.
