Everyone is different when it comes to emotional eating. There will be a variety of causes underlying your relationship with food, and you will respond to different approaches and tools depending on your personality, symptoms and way of perceiving the world. You can check out the various techniques on offer and consider what sounds best to you.
FREEdom: Finally Release Emotional Eating
In order to stop emotional eating, there are a number of different factors you need to know about (knowledge). Then, it's relevant to understand how they affect you (insight). And the third (and arguably most important) element is to create change (transformation).
I've been through this myself, and can guide you through it, too. And I have distilled down all my learnings, both professional and personal, to do just that.
You might prefer an online course, so you can go through things at your own pace, whenever you have a free moment. With lots of information, exercises to gain insight, and meditations for change, this is a plug-and-play process that is easy to use and profoundly effective.
Quick Emotional Eating Fix
This short course looks at the six most common emotions that have you reaching for food. You will build insight into your personal triggers and emotional patterns. And there are 18 different practical, science-backed tools to guide you in transforming your emotions, so you can feel calmer and be in control of your eating.
Working through this 1:1, we'll have four one-hour sessions where you can explore which emotions are your particular issues, and what situations trigger them. I'll guide you through meditations and visualisations tailored to you, efficiently getting to the root of problems quickly and thoroughly, so you can respond differently to food.
FREEdom: Finally Release Emotional Eating
There are three different elements that make a huge difference to your ability to control your eating, rather than feeling controlled by food.
The first is the emotions behind your emotional eating, and you'll gain insight and tools to manage these.
The second are the cravings you get around food. These are partially emotional: when you feel low your cravings increase. They are partly physical: if you haven't nourished your body appropriately, it will cry out for nutrition. And they are partly behavioural patterns hard-wired into your brain. Fortunately, there are tools to re-wire your brain, so you can calm cravings and get in touch with your real needs and desires.
Thirdly, we'll explore motivation. This has to go beyond just wanting to lose weight. Instead, the focus is on who you want to be, and acting in ways that align with this. This is about purpose and meaning and relationship, the things that matter most. Shedding excess weight is just a happy side effect!
If you choose the 'personal' option, we'll explore your current situation and how to make changes in a way that feels inspiring and achievable to you. You'll get about 30 'designed-for-you' meditations and visualisations, as well as over 100 ready to use videos. With these tools, you can be bulletproof now and in facing whatever life throws at you in the future.
Trauma
Much of my work focuses on trauma. This can be big T traumas, such as the suicide of a friend or loved one, severe accidents, and more targeted physical, emotional or sexual abuse. It can also be litte T traumas, experiences which may seem minor from the outside, yet especially when repeated can lead to high levels of stress. These can include issues such as parents divorcing or separating, repeated humiliation, parents who abuse drugs or alcohol, domestic violence, and neglect.
Trauma, of whatever kind, can easily lead to stress and anxiety, as well as complications of these. And a big complication is emotional eating! Multiple studies have connected ACE's - Adverse Childhood Events like those mentioned above - with eating disorders. And while your emotional eating may not be 'clinical', it can still have similar roots.
So often people find that beliefs you developed about yourself and the world in childhood are showing up in your adult life, and making it harder to manage your emotions. And when emotions feel difficult to handle, many of us learned to use food as a crutch. Breaking this cycle, and resolving the childhood issues at their core, is something both Matrix reimprinting and EMDR can be especially effective at doing.
In cases of trauma, big or small, I often recommend doing one-to-one work. This can make the process far more gentle and targeted. It feels good to have someone walking the path with you who has already been down this road, who understands, and who can guide you gently to release these old beliefs.
What this looks like
I always offer a brief initial chat, to help you decide if I am the right person for you to work with. I can clarify anything you are uncertain about, and make suggestions based on your preferences. I always offer you a personalised approach, adapting the techniques I’m trained in to find a combination that will work best for you.
My signature Journey to FREEdom course can be offered as a tailored-to-you series of one-to-one sessions. That way, you get all the information of the online course, and also personally adapted meditations on the day, and to use again between sessions and after the work is complete, to support you in making lasting changes.
If you prefer to have a standard session, perhaps to just focus on a single particular area, these are £120/hour, to be paid in advance.
I am also happy to invoice monthly, should you decide that on-going support would be helpful for you.
If you are a student, single parent, pensioner, or on benefits, please do get in touch to talk about discounted rates. Contact me for more information, on chloe@chloemccracken.com, or call 07561 231 281.
