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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.

A Holiday Meal That Turned Into Hives

I vividly remember one Thanksgiving when I was 8 years old. Two of my favorite foods were sitting on the appetizer table – pickles and shrimp. Because it was so long ago, I don’t remember how much of each I ate. I do know it was a lot because later that night when I was […]

How Perfectionism, People Pleasing, and Procrastination Influence Your Eating

Do you consider yourself to be a people pleaser, perfectionist and/or a procrastinator? These are common behaviors people use and associate with parts of their personalities. It may even feel like it’s who you are. However, these behaviors aren’t fixed, and you likely adapted them as a form of protection. When I say protection, I’m […]

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 […]

Laura’s Entrepreneurial Journey: Go Solo

In this interview with Go Solo, Laura shares about her weight and relationship with food journey, how she got into her business as a health coach, her biggest accomplishment as a business owner, among many other things that come with running a business.

Why So Many of Us Are Feeling Unsatisfied & What We Can Do About It: Authority Magazine

Do you ever feel like you aren’t enough or don’t have enough? In this interview with Authority Magazine, Laura talks about why so many of us feel unsatisfied, including how marketing and society play a role. She also provides 5 thing you can do to address the feeling of not having enough.

How to sustainably transform your relationship with food

Listen in as Laura sits down with Lowry Olafson to talk about the Truce with Food process and how your “bad” habits are actually a form of protection.

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