Former Out of the Cave client and licensed therapist, Jeff Ortiz, MA, MFT, sits down with Lisa to tell his story of going from a guy who helps others but couldn’t get a handle on his own relationship to food and emotional eating, to his holistic, mind-body transformation.

Topics Include:

Feeding unmet emotional needs with food

Life as an overweight child

Radical Responsibility

Coping with emotions in place of emotionally eating

[6:29] Jeff discusses how asking himself one very simple question changed everything for him, from his relationship to food and beyond

[9:40] Jeff shares about his relationship to his mother and how food and sweets became safety and comfort during his challenging childhood and what it was like growing up as the “fat kid”

[11:50] Jeff faces bullying and fighting due to his size and looking different and how anger became a big part of his life

[15:42] Jeff recounts his history with dieting, restriction, and relationship to exercise and how his wife’s breast cancer journey helped him come to terms with his own struggle around his food and body

[16:50] Being a “fat athlete” and trying to avoid being picked on

[20:07] Jeff becomes consciously aware that he his not expressing his emotions around his wife’s cancer and treatment and rather, is turning to food and decides he had to do something, and joins Lisa’s group coaching program and an exercise program

[23:20] Embodying the idea that you don’t have a problem with food and finally developing peace and freedom around eating

[27:05] The secret ingredient that allows you to move from knowing you’re an emotional eater to finally deciding you deserve better

[31:14] Jeff recounts his time in Lisa’s group coaching program and connecting with people with a shared experience from all over the world

[32:50] It’s not about the weight - how the work in group coaching helped Jeff in so many areas of life including his marriage

[39:30] Jeff accepts food is not the problem, coping with his emotions is the real issue and explains what he did with that information to heal his mind-body connection

[46:20] The power of the pause and meeting yourself with love

[52:34] How Jeff copes and expresses his emotions after having gone through group coaching

[1:00:36] The power of self-love and grace in the healing process, you matter, you’re important

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