Have you been struggling with your weight forever?
Do you eat based on your emotions, when you’re stressed, overwhelmed or upset?
When you turn to food for comfort, don’t believe you’re alone… and most of all, don’t blame yourself.
Feeling lonely, misunderstood or unloved is painful. Being weighed down by anxiety, depression, sadness or low self-esteem can be overwhelming.
Often you feel powerless and empty and just want those hurting feelings to go away… so you turn to food.
Before you know it dieting, obsessing, weighing, bingeing and overeating have become your way of doing life.
And it works, because you eat and you don’t feel awful anymore. You feel good and you feel full and you actually feel ok again… for a little while…
But as you know, those good feelings are very short lived.
It doesn’t take long before you start beating yourself up. Soon your mind is racing with criticism:
What’s wrong with me?” “I’m such a failure!” “I’m always going to be “fat”". ” “I just want to hide!”
Now you find yourself feeling guilty, ashamed or hopeless.
Beverly’s Healing Journey: Overcoming Depression and Emotional Eating
I came to Ina for healing because I was very depressed and felt totally out of control of my eating habits. She has been a real lifesaver.
When I first came to Ina for counselling I could barely get myself out of bed and to work each day. In fact I was calling in sick more and more often. I was really scared that I would ruin my whole career because of feeling so depressed. I also had been slowly gaining weight and feeling less and less attractive, less and less worthwhile. The worse I felt, the more junk food I craved… it was a vicious cycle. With Ina’s guidance I was able to understand that my depression was actually linked to emotional eating.
Ina helped me understand how feeling bad about myself and being depressed was connected to the emptiness I always felt in my belly. Under her guidance, I discovered that I wasn’t craving food but to be loved and appreciated. My hunger was about self-love and self-esteem.
As I started to open up and share my fears and anxieties with Ina, I noticed my depression was lessening. Being able to really trust someone is so important to me and Ina has a special way of helping me feel safe, supported and never judged.
Ina has counselled me for over a year now and I am no longer feeling depressed. With my growing awareness of my emotional eating issues I’ve started to look at food differently and have even lost some weight. Sometimes I ‘fall off the wagon’ but now I can usually recognize what I’m feeling by what is actually going on in my body. I can stop myself from bingeing. I’m grateful to Ina for her wisdom and support. Finally I’m starting to feel in control of my life again.
It’s easy to get trapped into thinking that you could be happy if only you were slim and had control over your disordered eating.
The “dilemma” with food addiction is, you’re a human being… you have to eat to survive. Furthermore, there are temptations and invitations to eat seemingly everywhere… especially when you are trying not to…
Before you know it, dieting, obsessing, weighing, bingeing and overeating become your way of doing life. You get locked into an uncontrollable cycle.
So… how can you escape the clutches of the diet mindset and be free from disordered eating? How can you beat your food addiction?
You already know that diets don’t work….usually there’s no permanent weight loss or help with how to cope when you’re feeling overwhelmed and hopeless.
Do you want to stop bingeing and emotional eating?
I would like to offer you my counselling expertise and passion as well as my years of experience in the arena of Food Addictions and Addictions.
I would like to offer you my counselling expertise and passion as well as my years of experience in the arena of Food Addictions and Addictions.
- Identify how you can respond in a healthy way when you get triggered
- Take back your power by practicing how to set boundaries – with food and your environment
- Reprogram damaging coping mechanisms you learned in your family of origin
- Step into your power so you can say NO before you get overwhelmed and lose the connection to yourself
- Develop constructive behaviours, motivations and habits
- Boost your self-esteem and love your body
- Break the connection between your relationship problems and your emotional eating
- Take steps to heal past trauma and abuse that you may have experienced
- Substitute old negative tapes running in your head with positive, empowering self-talk
- Discover your personal new antidote to stress and anxiety
- Acquire tools to manage “moments of crisis” and prevent relapses
My specialized holistic approach will teach you specific body-mind skills that will allow you to be present, grounded, balanced AND connected to your body in your daily life.
By healing your addictive and compulsive behaviours, you give yourself the chance to live your life’s purpose.
There is hope! You CAN recover and heal from emotional eating!
Release yourself from your disordered eating and diet prison today!
Consider making positive life changes and email me or call me at 778 558 8207 to set up a free 30 min info session where we can discuss how I can help you.
Can you imagine what a relief it will be, to finally enjoy food and eating without stress?
You will have more time and energy to dedicate to loving relationships, healthy connections, your creativity, your dreams and your personal evolution. So why wait?
Call 778 558 8207 now or email info@positivelifechanges.ca to schedule a FREE, 30-minute consultation with no commitment required. Together we can talk about your problems and see how I can help you make positive life changes today.
For general inquiries regarding my fees, services, or appointments, please email me at info@positivelifechanges.ca
Counselling – Therapy Services with Ina Stockhausen
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