My story might start like yours...

You may not know this, but it’s okay (it's normal!) to feel confused, unsure, or clumsy as hell when we step outside our comfort zones.

When we poke at our blind spots, breakthroughs happen.

For years, struggles with emotional eating, food, weight, and how to eat took up far more energy than I can now quite believe. I’ve binged, grazed, starved, and visited the scale compulsively. I’ve skipped meals and tried to live on crazy diets and food plans until I had no idea whether I was hungry or full or what I should be eating.

My weight was a moving target, but any weight loss never lasted and the final result always seemed to be five more pounds than when I had started.

There was a time when I had four sizes of pants in my closet and I needed them all to be sure I’d have something to wear. There were “good days” and “bad days” depending on how I ate, and bad days always ended in more eating.

Despite success in other areas of my life, the feeling that I couldn’t control my eating or my weight left me feeling ineffective and stupid for struggling with something that seemed like it should be straightforward and effortless.

My struggles with food meshed perfectly with a nagging belief that I needed to do more, that there was always more to accomplish and more to prove. Perfectionism, wanting to please, and the often unrealistic expectations I had for myself contributed to using food to fill voids, provide comfort, numb out, and manage stress.

Thankfully, I found a way out - a combination of help and strategies that let me step sideways and exit the crazy emotional eating roller coaster I had been trapped on. This wasn’t a temporary fix (been there, tried that unsatisfying route). Instead, I found a way to create a permanent, solid, ease and peace with food, with eating and with my weight. I left the crazy overeating madness behind, and I never looked back.

I believe we deserve to be living our best version of our lives, yet over the years, I’ve repeatedly witnessed the way struggles with emotional eating are robbing women of their sense of effectiveness and their confidence in their ability to be successful. I work with busy, high-achieving women all over the world who have had great success in many areas of their lives—they are wonderful mothers, successful business owners, leaders in their professions—amazingly talented women who seemingly can do anything—and yet they are so frustrated with themselves because they can’t figure out why they haven’t been successful with eating less and losing weight.

In many ways, overeating and emotional eating can become side effects of the high-achieving, busy lifestyle many of us are living. Food is an all-too-convenient way to comfort, soothe, and reward ourselves when we don’t feel like we have time to do anything else. It’s always available, we can partake pretty mindlessly, and we usually don’t have to say no to anyone or anything to treat ourselves.

Smart busy women already know that when they are overeating they need to eat less and that emotional eating isn’t helping them. The problem is, it’s not what you know, it’s what you can do, and when you have a lot on your plate, you probably don’t need more rules, more “shoulds,” and more on your to-do list—you need a whole new approach to food that addresses why it’s so darn powerful in your life to begin with.

And this is where the work that I do begins.