The Comfort of Struggle: What You Might Be Afraid to Let Go Of w/Danya Douglas Hunt (Part 2)

If you've ever felt completely obsessed or out of control around certain foods and wondered “am I just addicted to this? Is this something I'm going to have to manage forever? Is cutting it out the answer?” This episode is for you. I was listening to a podcast about alcohol addiction this morning and it hit me so hard I scrapped my planned episode to record this instead. Because the parallels between how people describe their relationship with alcohol and how my clients describe their relatio...

"No eating after 7pm. Protein at every meal. Never eat carbs on their own. Stop when you're 80% full. Only eat when you're actually hungry. Don't keep chips in the house. If you had dessert yesterday, skip it today." Your head is FULL of rules - how you “should” eat. What’s right, and what’s wrong. And as a result… → You’re overwhelmed, frustrated, and confused when it comes to food → The mental chatter about food is CONSTANT and debilitating → You can’t trust yourself and...

"I know what I need to do. I just can't do it." If you've ever said that about food, this episode is for you. This week's Coaching Over Coffee is with Linda - a scientist who came in asking how to stop the autopilot trips to the chocolate, break the evening eating habit, and convince her brain she doesn't actually need it. And in the first ten minutes, we uncovered something she hadn't considered: that trying to convince your brain is exactly the wrong approach, because the urge isn't coming ...

"Eat when you're hungry, stop when you're full." Ok, wonderful… But what if you genuinely don't know what full actually feels like? Not stuffed and uncomfortable. The quieter signal. The one that comes before the pain. For a lot of women, that signal has gone basically silent. And this episode is about why, and how to start reconnecting to it. In this episode I discuss... →Why years of eating by rules and numbers trains your body to stop sending signals →How living "from the neck up" d...

You already know about the binge-restrict cycle. That's not why you're still stuck in it. In this episode I'm going 10 layers deep into what's actually keeping the cycle running - including the real reason "just stop restricting" advice doesn't work, and the three things that actually have to happen to break free for good. In this episode I discuss... Why "just stop restricting" advice can make things worse - and what it's missingThe invisible straitjacket: why some people can't stop re...