Thinner Peace in Menopause

Whether you feel you have enough or not enough willpower around food, here's the truth: willpower DOESN'T work. So long as you continue to desire any food, your willpower will give. So in this episode, I provide two ways that will help you in lessening your urges around food through one key idea - by allowing it.

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Butterflies undergo an incredible transformation from the caterpillar stage to the chrysalis stage to the butterfly stage, and it's similar to the transformation that I take my clients through. Listen in today to find out what happens in the Thinner Peace Process and how it could be exactly what you're missing from your journey. I'm sharing the three phases of this process and how the power of self-compassion enables you to build trust and confidence in yourself!

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When it comes to our weight loss journeys, oftentimes our goal is to simply lower those numbers on the scale. But the beauty of weight loss coaching is that you can come out of it with more than what you were expecting. When my client hired me, it was with the intention to stop dieting and how to eat between the two's. Little did she know she would discover just how much her own thoughts were creating her urge to overeat.

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Did you know that trying to please people puts both emotional and physical weight on you? This was a challenge a client of mine struggled with. She was trying so hard to please her mother, she ended up going against herself. Tune in to discover how she gained the confidence to stand up for herself and changed her relationship with herself and her mother for the better.

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An important aspect of coaching is learning to have faith in yourself that you have the strength to put in the hard work. Joining me on the podcast today is Jill, one of my beloved clients. In this episode, Jill shares why coaching became the X-Factor in her weight loss journey and how she's been doing 1 year after working with me.

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When people regain weight or don't lose weight fast enough, they often tell themselves, "I'm a failure. I'll never be able to do this." In another installation of the Most Valuable Podcast episodes, we dive into the two most basic tools for permanent weight loss: massive action and failure. If you are able to understand and apply both these tools, then you will be able to develop a successful mindset to get the results you want.

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In the midst of finishing up my latest Thinner Peace Group Program, I ask my clients, "Why is this the last time you'll ever need to lose weight again?" When my client, Nancy, came into the group session, she said that her biggest goal was to make peace with her body and with food. Today, I have the pleasure of sharing Nancy's answer to that all-important question with you all.

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According to Buddhist philosophy, there are two states of emotions: the healthy state and the unhealthy state. For many of you, food is used as a way to create joy. But my Buddhist mentor, James Baraz, takes a different angle on this. So for this episode, I want to share James' teachings on the many ways you can create joy and sustain it through three simple steps.

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Last week, I talked about urges and the detrimental impact they can have on you when you choose to resist them rather than feel them. And I want to continue that discussion but from a more emotional perspective this time. In this episode, I want to share a real story from one of my beloved clients who struggled with pushing away her emotions and how allowing herself to process that emotion brought freedom and inner peace to herself in the end.

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One of the questions many people still ask me to this day is: "What do I do when I feel an urge?" So in this week's episode, I want to dedicate the time to define what an urge is, what it would feel like, and how you can manage them using a simple exercise by taking a page out of Pema Chödrön's book that will teach you how to manage those urges in three simple and easy steps.

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