In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Eating, Wendi talks more about inflammation, how its impact is underreported in the country, what it can cause to our bodies, what ultimately causes inflammation, and some things to do when you experience it.

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Eating, Wendi talks about how our connection with ourselves and other people is where our relationship with food begins and ends, how loneliness, guilt, and shame move you towards food, and a few solutions to change these.

Wendi talks about the concept and inspiration of overcoming, its literal definition, Wendi's past about it, and her meaning of overcoming.

In this episode of the Overcoming Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi talks about the PCOS dilemma, the truth about this disease, and how to treat it.

In 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.

In 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.

If 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

In 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.

These 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 called trust versus mistrust.
• We've got ages 1 to 3, and this is the stage of autonomy, machine, and doubt.
• 2 to 5 initiative versus guilt.
• Ages 5 to 12. So now we're in kindergarten, we're in first grade, we're in second grade. And this is where we look at the stage called industry versus inferiority.
• Ages 12 to 18, we have identity versus role confusion.

 

 

In 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.

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

In 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 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 as physical health.

"What we don't repair we absolutely repeat."

 

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Eating, Wendi talks about the impact on our food, weight, and bodies when we experience stress or even emotions, how some of us unknowingly have reactive-based patterns, and dealing with the triggers that we may have.

In 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.

In 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.

In 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.

In 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.

In 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?

In 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.

“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

 

 

 

In 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.

In 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.

In 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.

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Eating, Wendi is on a live prerecorded line with a client talking about using love as the motivation for a change instead of changing because we dislike our bodies, and accepting what our bodies are first before anything else.

"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.

In 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?

In 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.

The 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 is not the key to success with food. Learning love and growth is.

 

In 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.

In 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.

The 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 really is our duty to take care of ourselves. Self-care is giving the world what is best for you, not what is left for you.

Maintaining weight.

You've got to take care of yourself. Your mindset. And your rituals and your habits in order to maintain any shift or body change that has occurred for you.

 

 

In 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.

Feel 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.

"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."

 

In this episode of OVERCOMING Emotional Eating, Wendi talks about how we are treating our bodies, recognizing what the body does for us, and numerous ways to love your body when you don't.

In 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?

Things 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 atmosphere or our environment?
• What if you made a resolution with a word?
• Gratitude. What if you made a resolution to be grateful?

"If all we ever did was say thank you. It would be enough."

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end."

In 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.

There 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.

In 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.

In 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.

In 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.

In 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.

Difference 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 guilt and shame. And then recognize which one you weaponize if you weaponize any. And then how in fact, that could be helping or hindering you.

That's how you get underneath behavior patterns with food. And it can help make you free from this aspect of your life forever.

 

Being 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 comfort we seek in our food.

Some day is not a day of the week. 

 

In this episode of the OVERCOMING Emotional Overeating podcast, Wendi talks about caffeine, its presence in certain beverages, how people tend to develop a dependency on it, and what to do after consuming high amounts of caffeine.

In 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.

In 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.

In 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.