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- Grief and Emotional Eating: How Unresolved Loss Shows Up in Your Eating Habits (with Dawn Michele Jackson)
Ever feel like your eating habits don’t make sense, even when you’re doing everything “right”? Unresolved grief could be the missing piece.
This week, I’m joined by Dawn Michele Jackson, Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist, to talk about the surprising link between grief and emotional eating.
Grief isn’t only about losing a loved one. Dawn shares the many ways it shows up in life, from divorce and other life and career changes, and why you may be carrying it without realizing it.
We dig into how grief affects your eating habits, why food becomes a way to cope, and why willpower can’t fix what’s really going on underneath.
You’ll also learn how to heal from grief in a way that leads to genuine peace and joy, rather than just “being strong” and burying it.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- The hidden ways grief shows up beyond the death of a loved one
- Why grief can drive emotional eating, stress eating, and overeating
- Why “being strong” keeps you stuck
- How to start healing grief so food stops being your comfort
Discover how Dawn can help you with grief:
Schedule a Discovery Call: https://calendly.com/dawnmichelejackson/30min
Website: https://www.dawnmichelejackson.com
Substack: https://substack.com/@dawnmichelejackson
Heart Healing Conversations Podcast: https://www.dawnmichelejackson.com/podcast
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FREE CONSULT
Finally break free from overeating and emotional eating habits, and lose weight without the willpower battle.
✨Book a Free Consult
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FREE CLASS
Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.
Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself.
🍪Stop the Snacking Spiral
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WEEKLY NOTES
Join 'Lighter Notes' - weekly email notes for a healthy relationship with food and body.
💌 Get Weekly 'Lighter Notes'
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DISCOVER MORE
Learn more about how I can help you.
💻Visit my Website
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FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA
LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me
Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me
Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me
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✨Helping women in healthcare create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....
By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.
Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.
You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.
I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.
Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]
*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.
37 min - How to Stop Overeating Halloween Candy
With Halloween just around the corner, comes tempting treats, sugar cravings, and overeating the Halloween candy. However, imagine that this Halloween is different and you're able to trust yourself around candy, enjoy a treat or two, and move on without food guilt.
In this episode of Eating Habits for Life, I'm sharing how to stop overeating Halloween candy, particularly when it's in the house. I'm also sharing a couple of common strategies I see that fall a little short of being a true solution, and how to build in self-trust so you're not battling with willpower.
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FREE CONSULT
Finally break free from overeating and emotional eating habits, and lose weight without the willpower battle.
✨Book a Free Consult
__________
FREE CLASS
Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.
Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself.
🍪Stop the Snacking Spiral
__________
WEEKLY NOTES
Join 'Lighter Notes' - weekly email notes for a healthy relationship with food and body.
💌 Get Weekly 'Lighter Notes'
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DISCOVER MORE
Learn more about how I can help you.
💻Visit my Website
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FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA
LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me
Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me
Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me
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✨Helping women in healthcare create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....
By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.
Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.
You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.
I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.
Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]
*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.
13 min - 7 Eating Habits You Can Actually Keep for Life
If you're tired of eating habits that only work while you're "being good," this episode is for you.
I'm sharing the 7 eating habits you can actually keep for life - the same ones I help my clients build in Lighter.
These are the habits behind clients who lost weight and kept it off for months and even years, through babies, breakups, and stressful seasons.
You'll walk away knowing exactly what makes an eating habit sustainable so food and weight can finally stop taking up so much space in your head.
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FREE CONSULT
Finally break free from overeating and emotional eating habits, and lose weight without the willpower battle.
✨Book a Free Consult
__________
FREE CLASS
Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.
Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself.
🍪Stop the Snacking Spiral
__________
WEEKLY NOTES
Join 'Lighter Notes' - weekly email notes for a healthy relationship with food and body.
💌 Get Weekly 'Lighter Notes'
__________
DISCOVER MORE
Learn more about how I can help you.
💻Visit my Website
__________
FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA
LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me
Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me
Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me
__________
✨Helping women in healthcare create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....
By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.
Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.
You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.
I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.
Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]
*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.
20 min - 3 Ways to Still Eat Healthy When You're Stressed or Overwhelmed at Work
Feeling like your work stress or overwhelm keeps affecting your eating and don't know what to do about it?
In this episode of Eating Habits for Life, I'm breaking down the 3 stress eating patterns I see most often in high-achieving women, so you can spot exactly which one is running the show for you.
I'm also sharing some of my methodology for how I help my clients still have healthy eating habits despite the stress and overwhelm in their lives.
Then I'm giving you 3 quick wins you can use starting today, even in the middle of your most overwhelming week at work.
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FREE CONSULT
Finally break free from overeating and emotional eating habits, and lose weight without the willpower battle.
✨Book a Free Consult
__________
FREE CLASS
Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.
Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself.
🍪Stop the Snacking Spiral
__________
WEEKLY NOTES
Join 'Lighter Notes' - weekly email notes for a healthy relationship with food and body.
💌 Get Weekly 'Lighter Notes'
__________
DISCOVER MORE
Learn more about how I can help you.
💻Visit my Website
__________
FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA
LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me
Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me
Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me
__________
✨Helping women in healthcare create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....
By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.
Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.
You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.
I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.
Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]
*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.
16 min - Why You Crave Food When There's Chaos at Home
If you've ever caught yourself craving salty snacks, sneaking bites off your kid's dinner plate , or reaching for ice cream the second the house finally goes quiet, this episode exlains exactly why.
I break down what's actually happening in your brain when chaos hits at home and food becomes the thing you reach for. Whether that's toddlers melting down, a mess in the house, or kids or pets demanding your attention.
You'll hear a real client story that probably sounds familiar, plus a reflective question to help you spot your own underlying reason for these eating habits, this week.
By the end you'll understand why your eating patterns when you come home to chaos aren't about willpower, food, or you as a person, but instead something else entirely.
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FREE CONSULT
Finally break free from overeating and emotional eating habits, and lose weight without the willpower battle.
✨Book a Free Consult
__________
FREE CLASS
Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.
Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself.
🍪Stop the Snacking Spiral
__________
WEEKLY NOTES
Join 'Lighter Notes' - weekly email notes for a healthy relationship with food and body.
💌 Get Weekly 'Lighter Notes'
__________
DISCOVER MORE
Learn more about how I can help you.
💻Visit my Website
__________
FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA
LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me
Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me
Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me
__________
✨Helping women in healthcare create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....
By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.
Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.
You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.
I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.
Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]
*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.
13 min - Failing at Food and Weight? Here's What You're Missing
If you've lost the same 10 or 15 pounds more than once, or you're stuck in a cycle of struggling to feel in control around food, there's a reason it keeps happening, and it's not what you think.
I break down what's actually going on in your head that keeps you looping on food and weight, even when you're doing all the right things.
I share a client story with two specific shifts that finally broke her stress eating and her identity as an overeater.
And I give you one simple action to start today, so you can catch the pattern before it turns into eating.
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FREE CONSULT
Finally break free from overeating and emotional eating habits, and lose weight without the willpower battle.
✨Book a Free Consult
__________
FREE CLASS
Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.
Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself.
🍪Stop the Snacking Spiral
__________
WEEKLY NOTES
Join 'Lighter Notes' - weekly email notes for a healthy relationship with food and body.
💌 Get Weekly 'Lighter Notes'
__________
DISCOVER MORE
Learn more about how I can help you.
💻Visit my Website
__________
FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA
LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me
Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me
Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me
__________
✨Helping women in healthcare create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....
By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.
Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.
You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.
I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.
Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]
*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.
22 min - Overeating at Restaurants (Plus a Powerful Mindset Shift to Stop)
She pushed her plate away, boxed up the rest, and walked out of the restaurant without a second thought, and it had nothing to do with willpower.
In this episode of Eating Habits for Life, I break down the one automatic thought that keeps so many high-achieving women eating past full every time they go out to eat.
You'll hear exactly how one of my clients caught that thought and flipped it, and why it changed everything about how she eats out now, and broke her overeating habit.
Stick around for a powerful mindset shift you can use today or this week, that makes stopping at enough so much easier.
__________
FREE CONSULT
Finally break free from overeating and emotional eating habits, and lose weight without the willpower battle.
✨Book a Free Consult
__________
FREE CLASS
Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.
Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself.
🍪Stop the Snacking Spiral
__________
WEEKLY NOTES
Join 'Lighter Notes' - weekly email notes for a healthy relationship with food and body.
💌 Get Weekly 'Lighter Notes'
__________
DISCOVER MORE
Learn more about how I can help you.
💻Visit my Website
__________
FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA
LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me
Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me
Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me
__________
✨Helping women in healthcare create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....
By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.
Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.
You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.
I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.
Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]
*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.
18 min - Why You Stress Eat Even When You "Know Better"
You have a habit of eating snacks or sweets when stressed, but even when you're aware, you do it anyway. And the reason why isn't what you think.
In this episode of Eating Habits for Life, I'm shedding light on why you stress eat even when you know better, plus giving you 3 quick steps to start breaking your stress eating habits.
Listen in so you can go from feeling frustrated, discouraged and powerless, to feeling relieved, encouraged, and empowered. Those emotions will help you change your relationship with food, not the negative ones.
__________
FREE CONSULT
Finally break free from overeating and emotional eating habits, and lose weight without the willpower battle.
✨Book a Free Consult
__________
FREE CLASS
Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.
Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself.
🍪Stop the Snacking Spiral
__________
WEEKLY NOTES
Join 'Lighter Notes' - weekly email notes for a healthy relationship with food and body.
💌 Get Weekly 'Lighter Notes'
__________
DISCOVER MORE
Learn more about how I can help you.
💻Visit my Website
__________
FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA
LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me
Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me
Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me
__________
✨Helping women in healthcare create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....
By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.
Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.
You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.
I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.
Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]
*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.
16 min - Being Tired and Your Eating Habits: You Have More Control Than You Think
If your eating habits suffer when you're exhausted, this episode explains exactly why that happens and how to stop feeling like tiredness controls your food choices.
I break down what's actually happening in your brain when you're running on empty, and why willpower isn't as "offline" as you think.
I share a personal example from marathon training nights when I'm completely wiped out, plus a client story of a habit shift that happened in just 1 week.
By the end you'll have a simple mindset shift you can use tonight to make food decisions you actually feel good about, even on your most exhausted days.
__________
FREE CONSULT
Finally break free from overeating and emotional eating habits, and lose weight without the willpower battle.
✨Book a Free Consult
__________
FREE CLASS
Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.
Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself.
🍪Stop the Snacking Spiral
__________
WEEKLY NOTES
Join 'Lighter Notes' - weekly email notes for a healthy relationship with food and body.
💌 Get Weekly 'Lighter Notes'
__________
DISCOVER MORE
Learn more about how I can help you.
💻Visit my Website
__________
FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA
LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me
Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me
Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me
__________
✨Helping women in healthcare create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....
By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.
Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.
You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.
I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.
Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]
*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.
22 min - How Burnout Hijacks Your Eating Habits (And What to Do About It)
If you're in burnout and wondering why you're eating when not hungry, overeating, or snacking on "junk" or sweets, there's definitely a link.
I'm walking you through what's actually happening in your nervous system during burnout, why it makes food feel like relief, and a real client story that shows exactly how this shows up in a busy career and family life.
I'm giving you 3 simple nervous system regulation tools you can use today, plus 1 small action that starts shifting things without taking anything away from your food.
By the end of this episode you'll understand exactly why this happens and have a concrete first step to feel more in control around food, even in the middle of burnout.
Episodes mentioned to check out next:
The Biggest Misconception About Stress Eating Habits That Keeps You Stuck
5 Ways to Avoid Stress Eating
Why Burnout Makes Food Feel Out of Your Control
__________
FREE CONSULT
Finally break free from overeating and emotional eating habits, and lose weight without the willpower battle.
✨Book a Free Consult
__________
FREE CLASS
Stop the Snacking Spiral with 3 easy steps to start today.
Plus a bonus tool to prevent food guilt, shame, frustration and quitting on yourself.
🍪Stop the Snacking Spiral
__________
WEEKLY NOTES
Join 'Lighter Notes' - weekly email notes for a healthy relationship with food and body.
💌 Get Weekly 'Lighter Notes'
__________
DISCOVER MORE
Learn more about how I can help you.
💻Visit my Website
__________
FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA
LinkedIn: Follow & Connect with Me
Facebook: Follow & Connect with Me
Instagram: Follow & Connect with Me
__________
✨Helping women in healthcare create a healthy relationship with food and lose weight for life....
By breaking free from eating habits like overeating, stress eating, emotional eating, mindless snacking, and cravings.
Plus, forming healthy weight loss habits.
You're ready to finally feel at peace with food, confident in your body and lose weight sustainably.
I'm your Eating Habits and Weight Loss Coach, and I'm ready to help you achieve that.
Take the next step and explore 1:1 coaching with me. [Explore Now]
*The content in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or psychiatric advice.
23 min
About Eating Habits for Life
From the publisher's feed
Eating Habits for Life is for women who have it together everywhere else, but struggle with food, eating habits, and weight.
You’re disciplined and successful at work. You manage a demanding schedule. You’re capable of following through on the things that matter to you.
But when it comes to food, it feels frustratingly hard.
Maybe you struggle with emotional eating, stress eating, overeating, binge eating, mindless eating, cravings, or eating when you’re not physically hungry.
Maybe you know what’s healthy and understand portion control, but still find yourself stuck in the cycle of “starting over Monday.”
You want to build healthy eating habits and a calm, sustainable relationship with food that supports the life and body you want.
And you can.
Hosted by Kate Johnston, a former Physician Assistant of 15 years and now an Eating Habits & Weight Loss Coach, Eating Habits for Life explores what’s really driving your eating habits and why knowledge, willpower, and knowing what to eat aren’t always enough to change them.
You’ll learn how mindset, emotions, stress, perfectionism, your nervous system, and deeply ingrained habits can influence cravings, emotional eating, overeating, and weight loss struggles, along with practical, science-backed ways to change those patterns at the root.
You’ll learn:
✔️ What’s really driving emotional eating, stress eating, cravings, overeating, and mindless eating
✔️ How to stop blaming yourself for struggling with food
✔️ How to build consistent, sustainable eating habits without relying on willpower
✔️ How to change the patterns that make weight loss harder
✔️ How to manage emotions and stress without automatically turning to food
✔️ Mindset and behavioral science tools that make healthy eating easier to sustain
✔️ Why restriction, calorie counting, and an all-or-nothing approach can keep you stuck
✔️ How to create a healthier relationship with food while working toward sustainable weight loss
Each week, you’ll get practical tools and a deeper understanding of why you eat the way you do, so you can stop feeling out of control around food, build eating habits that actually fit your life, and work toward sustainable weight loss without constantly starting over.
If you have it together everywhere else but food feels harder than it should, you’re in the right place.
🎧 New episodes weekly. Subscribe so you don’t miss an episode, and send this podcast to a friend who could benefit from it.
And if you’re stuck in eating habits you’d love to break and want personalized support, I can help.
It starts with a free consult where we’ll:
✅ Uncover what’s really driving your eating habits
✅ Get clear on your deeper goals
✅ Map out the next steps to break the habits for good and move toward those goals
Book your free consult: https://katejohnston.com/consult
*The content in this podcast and my coaching services are for informational purposes only and do not replace medical advice or consultations with a healthcare or mental health provider.
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