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Obsessed with Making a Truce with Food: Obsessed

Tune in to learn how food is typically a symptom when we lack some sense of emotional safety or belonging. You’ll also learn where the gap is between having the desire to reach your goals and being able to stick with working towards them. And you’ll walk away with powerful tips on how to be […]

Chaos and Food Cravings: Calming the Chaos

Learn how to calm the chaos of food cravings, and how to recognize and stop self-sabotage. Right in time for the Holidays (or any time of year)!

Getting to the Root & Overcoming Stress Eating: Practically Well

Stress/unconscious eating–something that so many struggle with! While sometimes we understand that we’re eating because we’re stressed, oftentimes we don’t even know why we’re doing it, making it that much harder to stop. Learn practical steps we can take starting today to facilitate deep healing and sustainable change!

Breaking the Cycle of Self-Sabotage: Empowered Worth

Check out this interview to learn about the root causes of self-sabotage. Laura also shares the results you can expect by gaining awareness and clarity about your relationship with food. You’ll also hear why many of us turn to diets and how you can make them work for you if you choose to follow one.

A Good Relationship with Food: Advantages to Aging

In this interview, Laura breaks down what it means to have a good relationship with food and explains the cycle that leads to unaligned eating.  She also explains why we have good intentions of doing the “right” thing but don’t actually following through with them.

What’s Behind ‘I Need to Lose Weight’ ASAP

Do you ever have days where you look in the mirror and feel good about what you see? You feel confident and comfortable with your body. On the flip side, do you have days where you feel “fat” and start thinking about needing to lose weight ASAP? That rollercoaster used to happen for me frequently. […]

Eat in Alignment with Your Goals: The Self Project Podcast

Kristy and Laura talk about the four triggers that lead to unaligned eating and how emotion gets wrapped up in an inanimate item like food or money and creates stories and beliefs we don’t always realize are there. 

How to Develop a Healthier Relationship with Food: The Real Relationships Show

Tune in to hear why when you reach your goal weight, you still might not feel like you’ve arrived and how our relationships can impact our eating.

A Tool to Feel Empowered: Memories with a Beat

Learn about one of the tools I use with my clients as they’re exploring their relationship with food, why it works, how to use it, and how it helped me as I was going through my journey to heal my relationship with food.

How Fear Becomes Strength and Leads to Finding Your Why

This is a guest blog post from Boudoir & Family Photographer, Shannon Griffin. I wanted to share a piece from Shannon because the work she does with her clients is so much deeper than just a boudoir session. She really gets to know her clients and helps them feel seen. I hope you enjoy this […]

When Mindless Eating isn’t About Lack of Willpower

You wrap up work for the day and start to shift into thinking about what you’re going to make for dinner. If you have kids, you also have to shift from being in the work mindset to the caretaker mindset. You shut your laptop and head straight to the pantry. You’re not really hungry but […]

What’s Underneath the Fear of Losing Weight

Have you ever had a goal you really wanted to achieve but something held you back from committing and taking action? This was a realization a client recently had. She really wanted to lose weight, knew the steps it would take to make it happen and was finally ready. However, after months of sabotaging her […]

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