Two things can be true at once.
Your body may be asking for more.
If you are not eating enough during the day, especially protein and fibre, your body will come looking for it at night. Under-eating is one of the most common reasons people binge in the evening, and it has nothing to do with discipline. So we look at what and how much you are eating first.
The behaviour is doing a job.
If you are well fed and the urges are still there, past the point of feeling full, the behaviour is meeting a need. It might be soothing, numbing, avoiding, or giving you a moment that is only yours. We work out what that need is, so it can be met in a way that does not leave you ashamed afterwards.
Neither one is a character flaw. Both can be worked with.
The urge is not weakness. It is intelligence. It started for a reason.
Most urges did not begin as habits. They began as a response: the fear of gaining weight, the panic after a binge, hunger from restricting, emotions that felt like too much, or a brain that learned food could soothe. It happened again and again, until it became a habit.
Once you know why it started, you can meet that need in a way that fits what you truly want. By listening with curiosity and compassion instead of resisting and judging, you begin to reconnect with yourself and your body. You remember that your body is your biggest ally, always here to protect you.
What we work on
- Emotional eating
- Eating to feel something, or to stop feeling something.
- Binge eating
- The urge to eat a large amount of food in a short time, sometimes almost on autopilot, followed by shame, regret, and the need to make up for it through restriction, purging, over-exercising, or punishment.
- Food addiction patterns
- Food noise that does not switch off, and a pull that feels bigger than your intentions.
- Food as coping or avoidance
- Using food to get through the day, or to avoid looking at what sits underneath it.
Where the pattern actually lives
Information does not create transformation. You have read the books, maybe done therapy, and maybe you even already know what to do. So we work on why you cannot get yourself to do it.
Food is the training ground for life. We start there, and we do not stay there.
Your biology
We start by making sure you are eating enough of what your body actually needs, without labelling any food good or bad. How you feel around a food, emotionally and physically, is our guide at first. Then we work with your nervous system. What is the urge signaling, and what does your body need in that moment? This is where neuroscience helps us understand how your brain and nervous system create the urge, and gives us practical tools to interrupt the pattern.
Your identity
Every pattern is held up by beliefs about who you think you are around food. Often they sit at the subconscious level: your food identity, your eating identity, your weight identity. We find the story, question it, and build new beliefs about how you see yourself. Working at the root gives the change a strong foundation, so you keep moving forward instead of slipping back into old behaviours.
Your real life
The evenings, the stressful days, the Monday restarts. We practise in the moments where it actually happens. You leave each session with clear, concrete tools to interrupt your habit loops at the moment they begin.
Between sessions, you take what we find into your days, and we look at what happened next. Every woman arrives differently, so we talk through what working together looks like on your clarity call.
I have studied this, and I have lived it.
I understand how loud food can get, and how painful the shame is afterwards. That is why I do not teach willpower. I also do not see these behaviours as something to get rid of. Before anything can truly change, we need to understand the intelligence and wisdom behind them.
In my late teens and early twenties, I struggled with bulimia. Therapy helped me overcome it, but I was left with bingeing, emotional eating, and a painful relationship with my body. Getting to know who I was underneath my eating habits left me fascinated by the human mind and body.
I believe these behaviours often sit on top of some of your most beautiful gifts as a human being. I trust your innate intelligence, I trust the science, and I make room for something bigger than willpower. It would be an honour to help you through this.
- Certified Mind-Body Eating Coach
- NASM Behavior Change Specialist
- Neuroscience training with Dr. Sarah McKay
- BSc, Human Biology, University of British Columbia