Overcoming Emotional Eating
333 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsEating with stress, boredom, fear, loneliness, worry, anxiety or happiness are all ways we define emotional eating. The American Psychological Association reports that almost 40% of people have eaten in response to stress in the last 30 days. You are not alone. Each week, you can join Wendi Francis, emotional eating expert, to help YOU overcome your emotional overeating. If you want to finally find freedom from your food, weight, and body this is the podcast for you. Your time to become an OVERCOMER starts now.
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Episodes
The PCOS Dilemma
May 09, 2022 10:00 - 20 minutes - 30.3 MBIn this episode of the Overcoming Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi talks about the PCOS dilemma, the truth about this disease, and how to treat it.
Shifting Generational Expectations LIVE Q&A
May 05, 2022 10:00 - 10 minutes - 15.9 MBIn this episode of The OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about shifting generational expectations, set out by our parents or our grandparents what did they do with their food, what did they expect us to do with our food.
What Reward Fills Your Soul? LIVE Q&A
May 02, 2022 10:00 - 10 minutes - 15.5 MBIn this episode of The OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about rewards that fills your soul, finding the reward that hits your heart center and your brain center in the reward perspective.
The Moments We Store In Our Cells Affect Your Food
April 30, 2022 02:45 - 22 minutes - 32.6 MBIf we do not work on all three levels -- body, feeling, mind -- the symptoms of our distress will keep returning, as the body goes on repeating the story stored in its cells until it is finally listened to and understood. -Alice Miller
Helping your Teenager Through Food Control. LIVE Q&A
April 25, 2022 10:00 - 17 minutes - 19.5 MBIn this episode of The OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about helping her teenager through food control, the rules of engagement around the table, and how do we talk to each other about our food and our eating.
Developmental Stages of Eating and How it Leads to Overeating
April 21, 2022 10:35 - 22 minutes - 24.2 MBThese developmental stages of feeding and eating are really imperative if you're a parent of a young child, but also if you're if you have any issue with your food or your eating. We have been already situated and pre-formatted by the age of five. We also know that there are stages in feeding and eating that radically impact the stages of feeding what happens to us later in life with food. Stages of feeding: We know that between the ages of zero and one, we develop, a stage of feeding cal...
What Happens When You Have Medical Trauma That Impacts Your Food? LIVE Q&A
April 18, 2022 10:00 - 24 minutes - 25.6 MBIn this episode of The OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client who had medical trauma in their younger years and recognizing what that had done to their food and their eating.
Trauma in Your Food Part II
April 14, 2022 11:37 - 21 minutes - 22.9 MB“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton
The Feeling of Being Alive LIVE Q&A
April 11, 2022 10:00 - 12 minutes - 14.6 MBIn this episode of The OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about the feeling of being alive. Those moments that enable us to connect to a deeper part of ourselves.
Trauma In Your Food
April 07, 2022 10:00 - 20 minutes - 22.6 MB“Trauma creates change you DON'T choose. Healing is about creating change you DO choose.” – Michelle Rosenthal Protective factors are social conditions or personal attributes that help lessen the risk of trauma for an individual, family or community. Protective factors are parental knowledge of child development. We also know protective factors can include social connections and social and emotional competence. That's relative to that time period. Trauma impacts brain development as well...
What Does Your Coffee Mean To You And What Can You Do About It? LIVE Q&A
April 04, 2022 10:00 - 17 minutes - 19.1 MBIn this episode of The OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about her connection with coffee, her emotional relationship with coffee or a ritual that she developed over the course of years.
Taking Good Care of Your Body-Immunity and Autoimmunity - Part 2
March 31, 2022 10:00 - 20 minutes - 22.4 MBIn this episode of the Overcoming Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi talks about the emotional and food feeling connection to autoimmunity, the recognition that we know to have happened between science and spirit or physiology and psychology.
Taking Good Care of Your Body-Immunity and Autoimmunity
March 28, 2022 10:00 - 21 minutes - 23.2 MBIn this episode of the Overcoming Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi talks all about taking good care of your body-immunity and autoimmunity. Some new insight evidence research regarding immunity and autoimmunity and what we know is a definitive link.
A Moment Of Inspiration
March 24, 2022 10:00 - 11 minutes - 13.7 MBIn this episode of the Overcoming Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi talks all about inspiration, we all need it. And in order to really get through your emotional eating patterns in order to really change, shift, move where you were to where you want to be, you've got to find the inspiration that pulls your heart and soul towards where you want to soar.
What If You Don’t Trust Yourself? LIVE Q&A
March 21, 2022 10:00 - 18 minutes - 19.9 MBIn this episode of The OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about trusting yourself, how do you trust yourself?
What Are Some Things You Can Do To Love Yourself? LIVE Q&A
March 17, 2022 10:00 - 11 minutes - 13.6 MBIn this episode of The OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about the things that you can actually do to begin to love yourself, a skill we need to function in this world effectively and to be able to have a healthy relationship with our food, our weight, and our body.
All About LOVE
March 14, 2022 10:00 - 19 minutes - 21.6 MB“The people who give you their food give you their heart.” -Cesar Chavez “Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.” -Alan D. Wolfelt
When Chocolate Is More Than Just Chocolate LIVE Q&A
March 10, 2022 10:00 - 8 minutes - 10.8 MBIn this episode of The OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about when chocolate is more than just chocolate.
Finding Your Mountains LIVE Q&A
March 07, 2022 10:00 - 13 minutes - 15.5 MBIn this episode of The OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about what her mountains are like on her journey.
Living In The Moment LIVE Q&A
March 03, 2022 10:00 - 13 minutes - 15.9 MBIn this episode of The OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about living in the moment and what that means to her.
The Journey Continues
February 28, 2022 10:00 - 21 minutes - 22.8 MB"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" -Lao Tzu It's not about how we look. It's not really about how we feel. Meet yourself where you're at - to meet yourself, where you're at and identify the real mountains that will be along your path. Understanding that mindset really does matter. Invest in your personal wellness. Reward yourself on your journey without food. Make sure you learn and do the basics the only journey is the one that is within you.
What Feelings Are Coming Up In You? LIVE Q&A
February 24, 2022 10:00 - 11 minutes - 13.9 MBIn this episode of The OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about what feelings are coming up in you. Understand more about what happens when you hear something and it triggers a response in you. And then what can you do with it?
Learning About Yourself LIVE Q&A
February 21, 2022 10:00 - 17 minutes - 19 MBIn this episode of The OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about learning about herself. What eating at night is and what that could bring with respect to further learning.
Are You Disciplined?
February 17, 2022 10:00 - 20 minutes - 22.4 MBThe definition of discipline is to train someone to obey rules or a code of behavior using punishment to correct disobedience. What can you do to really change your behavior? By really using tactics. As opposed to punishments. If you know your cues are, you can start to disrupt those cues. You can replace one behavior with another. Work with your feelings. Feel your feelings. Remember language, feeling behavior. We need to persist. We need to overcome and we need to learn. Discipline i...
The Birth of A Podcast - How Overcoming Came to Be...
February 14, 2022 10:00 - 19 minutes - 21.6 MBIn this episode of the Overcoming Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi talks about how overcoming came to be. How and why it was developed, why sometimes you hear crackles on the line, and maybe not the most perfect quality of sound.
What To Say Instead Of Should LIVE Q&A
February 10, 2022 10:00 - 7 minutes - 9.84 MBIn this episode of The OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about what to say instead of should. What do the shoulds do and how do we get rid of them, Whenever you say should, it is a shame-based response and it moves you into a different element of negativity.
What's Your Minimum To Maintain?
February 07, 2022 10:00 - 20 minutes - 21.8 MBThe more something becomes a ritual, the more likely we are to keep it in our repertoire. And these rituals give us a grounding step to stand upon as the day goes through. We maintain our mindset. "No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you're staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It's very simple when you look at it." - Kevin Hart We create our own environment with our own self-talk. We all have a level of self-care that re...
Recognizing The Underlying Cause Of Your Rebellion LIVE Q&A
February 03, 2022 10:00 - 20 minutes - 22.5 MBIn this episode of The OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about recognizing the underlying cause of your rebellion, what that is, what that means and what you can do with it.
What Feels Right, Isn't Always Right
January 31, 2022 10:00 - 22 minutes - 23.7 MBFeel your feelings and then understand the facts once you read the waves of feeling. So that you can come out on the other side, balanced on the levels that you need to.
Don't Look Back
January 27, 2022 10:00 - 20 minutes - 21.8 MB"Acceptance of the present moment is the only way to move forward." "You just can't keep looking back because you really are not going that way."
Getting Your Family On Board LIVE Q&A
January 24, 2022 10:00 - 11 minutes - 13.6 MBIn this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about how she can help get her family member on board with what she's doing with her food. How do we enable others to be with our cause and our journey with food?
Throwing Your Resolutions Out
January 20, 2022 10:00 - 22 minutes - 23.5 MBThings that really help change us: What if we made a resolution to change our thoughts? What if we made a resolution around the company that we keep Music - what if we kept music around us that brought us joy that made our heart saying that helped us feel calm or relaxed or joyous, whatever that was? What about changing the things you look at? What about changing your visuals? What if you made a resolution? To look at the things that make you feel good, What about changing our atmosphe...
Being Mindful Of What You Put In Your Brain LIVE Q&A
January 17, 2022 10:08 - 22 minutes - 24.2 MBIn this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about guarding the doors to your mind, to being mindful of what you put in your brain.
The Beauty Of Hitting The Bottom
January 13, 2022 10:00 - 19 minutes - 20.8 MBThere is no failure, there's only moving forward if you learn from it. I absolutely feel like if we learn from a mistake, it's not really a mistake. Mistakenly happen when we just do something and don't learn a thing from it and we keep doing that same thing.
Different Way To Show Up LIVE Q&A
January 10, 2022 10:00 - 10 minutes - 12.6 MBIn this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about how do we show up different in our lives and what does that mean for us.
Is This “Enough” Of A WHY? LIVE Q&A
January 06, 2022 10:00 - 7 minutes - 10.1 MBIn this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about the core of why we do things.
The “Right” Motivation LIVE Q&A
January 03, 2022 10:00 - 10 minutes - 13.1 MBIn this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about the right motivation. What is motivation and how do we get it in the right way to move us away from shame or guilt and move us into the direction that we want to go into.
Recognizing if you are in shame or guilt pattern LIVE Q&A
December 30, 2021 11:00 - 18 minutes - 20.3 MBIn this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about the difference between shame and guilt and recognizing if you are in a shame or guilt pattern.
What do you know about Shame and Guilt?
December 27, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes - 23.9 MBDifference between guilt and shame. Guilt is a feeling of responsibility or remorse for an offense, crime or wrongdoing. The reality is when we do a behavior that is not what we want. Recognizing that forgiveness is really the only option and learning to forgive yourself and then let things go is imperative. Shame basically is a feeling of inferiority. It involves a perception of oneself as a failure. Or feeling unacceptable to others. Start by recognizing the distinct difference between...
The Meaning of Merry
December 23, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 21.8 MBBeing intentional with your food and focusing on how it really makes you feel in your body can help you really become true navigators of healthful eating. There are lots of things that we learn as we get older that don't only serve our body in the right way. So during this Christmas week, focusing on the term memory and thinking about what really makes you in your body feel light-hearted about you then enable you to feel joyful about yourself. The more joy we feel in life, the less comf...
Bringing respite to our everyday life LIVE Q&A
December 20, 2021 10:00 - 10 minutes - 13.2 MBIn this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about bringing respite to your everyday life and the joy that can abound from it.
You only get one body! Honor it! LIVE Q&A
December 16, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 10.7 MBIn this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about our bodies and how to honor them because they really do everything for us.
What Goes on Your Holiday Plan? LIVE Q&A
December 13, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 10.3 MBIn this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about the holidays, what goes on your holiday plan and how do you make that happen.
You Made The Plan, Now What Happens?
December 09, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 22 MBHow do we keep ourselves accountable? “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.” -Peter F. Drucker. How do you speak to yourself in the area of life that you have success in implementing a plan? Ask for help. That's why you do the plan so early. Ask for help from the people around you. Be willing to change your behavior if you keep doing what you're doing. You'll keep getting what you're getting.
Repair, Recovery and Resourcing
December 06, 2021 10:00 - 19 minutes - 21.2 MBRecover and repair. Get back to basics whatever basics are for you. That's what repair and recovery are about. Get off at the next exit and get back to basics. Resourcing is about bringing ourselves back to the present moment in time. When you're not in the moment with your food. Your trip up and fall back into the past. You got to stay present and oriented in order to really be empowered in this time. Not only to enjoy your holidays and to enjoy other people but to keep the connection...
Planning Tips for the Holiday Season LIVE Q&A
December 02, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 11 MBIn this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about some specific tips for planning for the holiday season. Tips, strategies and specifics can help us make and design plans for the holiday season in order to get through it and still reserve those moments and energy for ourselves.
Making "The" Plan
November 29, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 22.3 MBBy failing to prepare you are preparing to fail. -Benjamin Franklin How to make some plans that actually help you to succeed. One of the best ways to prevent the letdown effect from happening is to have a plan. Once you lay out all the things you have to get done for other people and for other things. Now you've got to make sure that you plan for your self-care. Where can you get some movement in so you can release and reduce that cortisol? Can you pre plan your meals or pre-prep those...
Creating Boundaries: An Insightful Interview with Janie Sterling
November 25, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 30.8 MBBoundaries are super important, and it's really the way that we create safety and sanctity in our world. Creating a boundary with our busyness or distracting with technology, so we don't feel connection out of fear. Creating that inadvertent boundary between us and others. Is not always helpful or healthy. “Every woman that finally figured out her worth has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” - Shannon Alder When we kn...
What you CAN do on Thanksgiving
November 22, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes - 23.5 MB“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.” ― Meister Eckhart One of the initial elements that comes into play is the social element of Thanksgiving. Who are you going to be with on this day? Do you love who you're going to be with? And can you be intentional in who you surround yourself with? The emotional or psychological element of Thanksgiving. These holidays can be fraught with emotional pitfalls. They can also be fraught with emotional mountain peaks, Thin...
Changing Your Breathing Patterns LIVE Q&A
November 18, 2021 10:00 - 7 minutes - 10.4 MBIn this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line talking with a client about how breathing affects how we feel, how we think, how we move and how we eat.