Picture this:

You’re trucking along your day – everything’s going pretty well, when BOOM:

You see a picture of yourself, and you’re instantly triggered.

“Is that really what I look like?” you ask yourself.

You can’t believe your appearance. Maybe it’s extra weight, or the shape of your hips or stomach.

But whatever it is – you feel your heart start to sink, and a crushing sadness races in.

Before you know it, you’re spiraling into that incorporeal place made famous on Netflix’s acclaimed series.

(And let’s just say, it’s not “The Good Place.”)

Sound familiar?

Most of us have had the disconcerting experience of getting triggered around our weight or appearance. So in this episode, we take a special look at body image triggers, where they come from, and how to begin healing them.

You’ll hear Marc David work with 41-year old Jen on her triggers with weight and body image.

While Jen is hungering for weight loss – she’d love to lose around 40 pounds – she comes to realize in working with Marc that there’s something she’d like even more:

Being able to love and stand by herself, even if she’s not yet at her goal weight.

Because Jen’s body image triggers have been preventing her from so many things, such as:

• Taking photos of herself with loved ones.

• Role modeling a healthy body image to her daughters.

• Feeling confident in her own skin.

• Living in a state of freedom and joy.

Tired of feeling sad, afraid, and anxious about her weight, Jen is ready for a big shift … even if she’s confused about how to get there.

While her wisdom, self-kindness, and high values have served her well so far, her body image triggers are clearly still blocking the way.

But one thing she’s clear about? It’s time to break the door down.

Nothing is going to stop Jen from doing the inner work she needs to do, so she can finally embrace herself – and the life she so deserves.

Listen in as Marc shares:

• How to understand the root causes behind your weight and body image triggers.

• Reframing the core negative beliefs and old traumas that are often at the root of body image challenges.

• How to recognize and shift how you speak to yourself about your body.

• A powerful exercise for learning to embrace your appearance.

• And much more…

Don’t miss this remarkable eating psychology coaching session, where Marc lays out the path for all of us who are ready to release our body image triggers, and discover just how good life can be on the other side.

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Learn more about us at The Institute for the Psychology of Eating: https://psychologyofeating.com/

Ready to call a ceasefire in your battle with eating, and find peace and freedom with food? Learn more about our newest program, The Emotional Eating Breakthrough! https://learn.psychologyofeating.com/

Interested in becoming a certified coach in eating psychology? Then tune in to hear Marc talk about our Mind Body Eating Coach Certification Training, and download a copy of our School Catalog: https://psychologyofeating.com/info-kit/ Learn our powerful, cutting-edge approach, and discover how you can create a unique career helping others find peace and freedom with food.

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Managing emotions with food, otherwise known as emotional eating, is something that humans have been doing for millenia. And the reason is simple: when we eat, we reliably feel better – no matter how fleeting those “feel-good” feelings may be.

While many people intuitively understand that emotions play a key role in our eating habits, it can often be a lot harder to understand the emotions themselves.

The truth is, our inner emotional world is fantastically complex, and influences our relationship with food in so many diverse and fascinating ways.

Which brings us to guest coaching client Beverley, 70, whose deepest desire is to understand the “dark places” inside herself that drive her to food – and to finally bring healing to the challenging emotions she’s been feeling for over 50 years.

As Beverley shares with Marc David, she’s never really been able to understand her negative feelings, where they came from, or why she has them.

Beverley reflects that she’s had an “amazing life,” with so many blessings. She’s developed a fulfilling career as a theater director, helping young people develop their skills and confidence as an actor. She raised four incredible children of her own, and was, herself, born to a remarkable mother who always inspired and supported her.

And it’s this latter feature of Beverley’s life – her special bond with her mother – that is especially interesting.

As Marc explores with Beverley, her love for her mother runs so deep, and a very real part of her – her Child Archetype, doesn’t seem to want to let go. Even though Beverley’s mom has long since passed away, a part of Beverley still wants to be her mother’s daughter.

Her uncanny way of staying connected with her mom is by continuing to engage in a behavior – emotional eating – that she knows her mom would have always encouraged and supported her to not judge herself for. By turning to food and being childlike when it comes to soothing her emotions with eating, Beverley has found a way to symbolically stay connected to her mother.

As Marc reflects, sometimes our “dark places” aren’t actually what they seem. They aren’t actually dark, or sinister, or even flawed.

They’re just young parts of ourselves that hold onto a pattern out of fear of letting go of something – or someone – we love.

So be sure to tune into this powerful, wise, and heartfelt session that highlights the mother-daughter connection when it comes to food, and how we can continue to learn, grow and transform at any age in life.

Episode highlights:

✅ Why “going dark” with food isn’t always what it seems.

✅ Key transformational tools to bring consciousness to your own unique relationship with food.

✅ Why overcoming emotional eating often requires us to “graduate” from our parents house.

✅ Learning to see yourself as equal to your parents – and why that matters when it comes to food.

✅ How to forgive yourself around food and emotional eating.

✅ And much more!

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Learn more about us at The Institute for the Psychology of Eating: https://psychologyofeating.com/

Ready to call a ceasefire in your battle with eating, and find peace and freedom with food? Learn more about our newest program, The Emotional Eating Breakthrough! https://learn.psychologyofeating.com/

Interested in becoming a certified coach in eating psychology? Then tune in to hear Marc talk about our Mind Body Eating Coach Certification Training, and download a copy of our School Catalog: https://psychologyofeating.com/info-kit/ Learn our powerful, cutting-edge approach, and discover how you can create a unique career helping others find peace and freedom with food.

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When it comes to body weight, most of us are focused on one thing: losing it!

But many people aren’t prepared for what happens after weight loss.

Any thoughts we may have about post-weight loss life are pretty dreamy. We imagine we’ll feel uber confident, accomplished, and ready to boldly move forward in life.

But all too often, that simply isn’t the case.

For many, the striving and struggle for weight loss ends up getting replaced by an equally unwelcome visitor: WEIGHT WORRY.

That can look like constant fear that we’ll gain the weight back, or nagging anxieties that we really should lose another few pounds.

Our food worries continue, and the voices in our head never stop criticizing. We judge our body, we shame ourselves for having body fat, and we belittle ourselves for not having absolute control over food.

While weight worry might fit into that box called a “1st world problem” – it can nevertheless be pretty debilitating.

So what do we do when losing weight doesn’t stop us from worrying about weight?

Tune into this episode to find the answer.

You’ll hear from guest coaching client, Armine, 51, who has dieted for most of her life – and recently lost weight after a gastric sleeve operation. Armine thought she’d feel happier, but instead is often consumed by intense anxiety that she’ll gain the weight back.

How can Armine shift into a new relationship with her body, where she’s not constantly worrying and fretting about her weight?

As Marc David helps Armine see, it’s a question of how she finds peace with herself and her body. Through a powerful new approach focused on personal growth, embodiment, and self-compassion, Armine discovers how to reframe her lifelong struggles with weight – and forge a beautiful new path forward.

Some of the key episode highlights include:

✅ How to send the body the unmistakable message that it’s a safe and welcome place, and why that matters when it comes to weight worry.

✅ Using a favorite form of “embodiment” to quiet the mind.

✅ Let go of perfection through the power of the Queen archetype.

✅ A key breathing technique to shift energy out of the mind and into the body.

This fascinating session demonstrates that weight loss by itself doesn’t guarantee inner peace and happiness. Freeing ourselves from weight worry ultimately comes down to living in joy – which is a daily practice we devote ourselves to, no matter how we look or what we weigh.

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Learn more about us at The Institute for the Psychology of Eating: https://psychologyofeating.com/

Ready to call a ceasefire in your battle with eating, and find peace and freedom with food? Learn more about our newest program, The Emotional Eating Breakthrough! https://learn.psychologyofeating.com/

Interested in becoming a certified coach in eating psychology? Then tune in to hear Marc talk about our Mind Body Eating Coach Certification Training, and download a copy of our School Catalog: https://psychologyofeating.com/info-kit/ Learn our powerful, cutting-edge approach, and discover how you can create a unique career helping others find peace and freedom with food.

Follow us on social:

- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Psychologyofeating

- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IPEfanpage

- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eatingpsychology/

- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/eatingpsych

#weight #weightworry #dieting #yoyodieting #weightlossjourney #selfawareness #personalgrowth #marcdavid #psychologyofeating #foodpsychology #positivepsychology