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Overcoming Self-Sabotage: Running for Your Life

Do you ever feel like after you’ve worked hard at something, you ease up on your eating because you feel like you deserve a reward for working so hard? In this podcast interview Laura and Barry discuss why we self-sabotage, why we lose control around food, and how to stick to your eating and goals. […]

Help! I Overate and I Don’t Know Why

You kickstart your day with a quick and nourishing breakfast, navigate a hectic morning, and manage to squeeze in a healthy lunch. The workday whirls by, and as the clock strikes 5:00, you eat some cheese and crackers before diving into dinner prep. Post-dinner, you settle on the couch, intending to unwind. Yet, you find […]

Break the Diet Cycle & Make a Truce with Food: Midlife Rise + Thrive

Do you feel trapped in the cycle of dieting, losing weight, and then gaining it all back? Laura shares a different approach to weight loss and your relationship with food, so you can get to the root of what’s keeping you stuck and break the cycle for good.

Live Health Coaching Session On Lack of Consistency and Feeling Out of Control Around Food

In this health coaching session with Parvinder, we dive into the reasons we aren’t as consistent as we would like to be around our eating and exercise. We uncover how those habits are protective and why they make perfect sense.   Here’s an overview of what you’ll hear in the session: 0:28-4:02: Main challenge(s) with […]

When Lack of Willpower is a Symptom of Feeling Unsafe

When thinking about getting back “on track” with our eating or ending self-sabotage around food, traditionally we’ve had to resist the food and garner up enough willpower or discipline to make changes. What if the issue isn’t about the food and isn’t because of who you are around food? People often ask me how Truce […]

A Food Transformation Story

People often ask what the Truce with Food process is like and the types of results they can expect. Below is a case study of one client’s journey through the 6-month program. It was incredible to witness the transformation she experienced not only with food, but also with herself. If you’d like to explore how Truce with Food can […]

Prolonged Periods of Stress: Why you “don’t care” what you eat & tips to cope

In the past there have always been stressful periods in life. However, over the last two years, collectively we have been experiencing prolonged periods of stress and uncertainty. When there is a lot of uncertainty (pssst, 2 years of a global pandemic, among many other stressors outside of our control), it can be a trigger […]

Mindless Habits: The Unstuck Podcast

Are you feeling tired, anxious, inadequate, or lonely? In this interview with LaChelle, I share how these feelings can be connected to mindless habits that could be sabotaging you.

Break Free From Self-Sabotage: Soul Food Sunday

Karria and Laura talk about how and why we use food as protection, as well as how you can identify if you’re self-sabotaging.

Is “fat” really a feeling?

Have you ever uttered the words, “I feel fat!”? That statement used to enter my mind on the daily, even after I had lost 60-pounds and was maintaining my weight. I still remember the first time I had the conversation with my health coach when she said, “Laura, fat is not a feeling!” I felt […]

Laura B. Folkes Business Spotlight: Lakeview Roscoe Village Chamber of Commerce

Learn about Laura’s background, why she became a health coach, as well as what she loves doing outside of running her business.

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