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From Exhausted & Striving, to Energized & Thriving
My journal used to be filled with self-loathing. I wanted to lose weight and feel healthy, but after dinner, I would eat compulsively. I was constantly eating more food than I needed, then skipping meals, and exercising like a fool to counteract all those late-night calories. I felt powerless to stop myself, AND I thought I was the only person who couldn’t figure it out. I thought I must be crazy or lazy. Of course, […]
Embracing Curiosity to Transform Our Beliefs and Habits
In the gentle ebb and flow of life, curiosity emerges as a guiding light, illuminating paths to self-discovery, healing, and growth. It invites us to question, to explore, and to open ourselves to the myriad of possibilities that lie within and around us. Embracing curiosity can lead us on a transformative journey, changing our beliefs and habits in ways that nurture our well-being and foster self-love. Habit change is often approached with a mindset fixed […]
Transforming Body Image: A Spiritual Journey to Self-love and Healing
It was a spiritual awakening that transformed my body image and the challenges I faced with weight. As I entered seventh grade, the changes in my body triggered a growing unease about my weight. By ninth grade, I found myself caught in a cycle of trying to lose weight. Initially, I thought it would help me improve as an athlete; however, it spiraled into a harmful pattern of calorie restriction and excessive exercise. For me, […]
My Paradigm Shift: From Body Image to Health and Wellbeing
Personal story: At this stage in my life, I’ve turned my focus from body image to health and wellbeing. I spent much of my early life trying to fit into a specific size of clothes or reach a special number on the scale. This was an epic battle that inevitably resulted in self-loathing. Even when I was successful in achieving those goals, it never brought me the peace of mind that I believed it would, […]
A Journey to Food Freedom and Self-Love
For many years, throughout all of my high school and college years, I had a volatile relationship with food and my body. My drive to lose weight and be thin was the most important thing to me, and I neglected all other parts of my life because of this. I wanted to get better and have a healthy relationship with food, but I couldn’t find any good role models to follow. My family didn’t have […]
From Fear to Freedom: Embracing Food as a Friend on My Journey to Self-Love
I started to fear food early in middle school, a time when I acutely felt that I wasn’t as skinny as the other girls, nor could I eat like them without consequences. For nearly three decades, food became my enemy and I lived in terror that food would lead to weight gain, a prospect that paralyzed me. My battle with appetite mirrored this fear. I was convinced that yielding to hunger would lead to uncontrollable […]
Navigating Body Image Challenges: The Catalyst for My Journey as a Coach
I see now, the cycle of self-abuse, self-rejection and self-attack that I was born into. It is clear now how generational it is, being passed down from parent to child like eye colour or body shape. Just like my blonde hair, I accepted this chronic self-hatred without pause, having no idea that this very thing, was the source of my unwanted weight. How could the roll over my jeans not be the issue here? It […]
Whole Body Harmony: More Than a Meal
Once upon a not-so-distant past, my world orbited around my diet. The precision of a scientist with every bite, every calorie. But even with the “cleanest” eating, something was missing. It was a lesson I learned the hard way: true health isn’t just about the greens on your plate. I had developed an eating disorder and it was killing me quickly. Let me tell you, I’ve spent years, yes, years – relearning the language of […]
The Art Of Deeper Listening
My body has been talking to me for years through digestive issues, weight gain and lack of energy. I partially listened by changing my diet and following various diet protocols, little did i know that enrolling for Mind Body Eating psychology was going to take my journey to a deeper level of understanding myself more as a conscious eater and improve my relationship with food, mind and body. I now know there’s something that has […]
Love Is The Answer, Not Hate
I used to hate myself. To cure this, I embraced perfectionism. I was constantly striving for flawlessness. Growing up with loving, but emotionally unavailable parents, I sought safety by avoiding anything that could lead to punishment, rejection or shame. I learned to suppress my emotions, be the “good girl,” and wait for acceptance and love. As I entered puberty, my perfectionism extended to food and eating. A book called “The Low GI diet for kids” […]
I Thought I Knew?
I have been in the fitness and nutrition fields for almost half of my life now. I have also been an athlete for almost all of my life (except a handful of years in my late teens and early 20’s where I found partying to be more important.) What I thought I knew about myself and my body, as it turns out, was only just a cover. It wasn’t until beginning my journey with the […]
The Gift of Transmuting our Compulsions
An idea passing by: The time has come to quit smoking… My body: This feels right. Let’s do this. My uneasy mind: Wait, What?! NOW? But what if you go back to binge eating and gain weight?! Quiet voice from I-dunno-where: Whatever is behind compulsive eating or smoking, it’s the same. You can face it. You have the whole Mind Body Eating Coaching Training to figure out what it’s about and to prepare yourself to […]
Starting A New Year Can Be Overwhelming
Sometimes we focus on doing and achieving things, instead of learning, accepting or growing. Every new year and actually every new day is an opportunity to live! We can start every day with thankful thoughts that can help us grow and focus in what we have and what we are. When giving thanks we can focus on the bigger picture, and not only a small aspect of our lives. When you learn to love yourself […]
Relax Into Your Journey
Nothing can quite prepare you for hearing the three words “You have cancer“. Even worse, to then learn that your particular disease is incurable. Looking back, there were clear signs and symptoms that I had been ignoring for several years, but I was simply too busy with my life as a wife, mother, and a fast-paced corporate employee. I was literally running exhausted from one task to the next: from work commitments, grocery shopping, food […]
Overeating to Cope with Overworking
Everything we do in life, we do to feel or not feel something. And I, my dear friends, until reaching my 40s, have been the Queen of using food emotionally. But now, I have finally begun to feel my feelings instead of overeating and overworking. And as a certified food psychology coach, it’s my joy to teach other professionals and entrepreneurs to do the same. We spend a third of our lives working, supposedly. But […]
Food and Stress were Synonymous
I spent years punishing myself for feeling my feelings. Often when I would run, I felt I was running away from my life but had nowhere to go. I would refuse to buy clothes because I hated my body. I dieted constantly – moving from diet to diet, trying to find the one I could stay on and that my body liked. I would exercise 1-2½ hours, five days a week, and then find something […]
The Power of Letting Go of Body Shame and Weight Bias
I’ve undergone a lot of transformation over the last 7 years. I’ve stopped dieting, made huge breakthroughs in overeating, binge and emotional eating, lost a ton of weight (from my body and mental/emotional weight) but to be honest, I didn’t do much work around body shame. I mean, I remember being at my heaviest weight – 225 lbs – and feeling an enormous amount of shame, the “please God, no one look at me” kind […]
My Body Reflects My Story
Why am I showing you this? In our beautiful and complex world nowadays there is a general culture of insecurity around our body, what a sadness, seems is never enough. Can it be a lifetime learning of how to love ourselves? Can it be about maturity? Between the ages of 15 and 26 years old I think was the time I criticized my body the most, just in the “golden age”. My shoulders, my nose, […]
Adriana Zangarini | Coach Especializada en Pérdida de Peso
¿Quieres perder peso y te saboteas? Yo también. Fue gracias a mis herramientas de crecimiento personal que me ayudaron a tener claridad y constancia en descubrir que pasaba. Te cuento un poco de mi. En un principio organizaba cursos de crecimiento personal en Venezuela: meditación, física cuántica, constelaciones familiares, ángeles, geometría sagrada, flores de Bach, entre otros. Todo eso me llevó a aprender muchas cosas, entre ellas cómo podía ayudar a las personas a que […]
New Tools to Empower Healing
I came into the IPE program eager to transform a life-long unhealthy relationship with food and body image and fuel my passion to help others. Despite years of self-education in the diet and nutrition world, I would describe myself as having a love-hate relationship with food and body built on fear, control and a masculine mindset. I did not trust myself around food. I did not know how to “handle” my appetite. I was afraid […]
From War To Peace
What is meaningful to me in this phase of my life is to be true to myself and my dreams. In the past, I often put my aspirations on hold for the way that I looked or sadly, due to how the media or others said I should look. I have come to a point in my life where I value my life and want to make sure that other women learn to value theirs […]
Look Inward to Rise Upward
Like a caterpillar to a butterfly, it can be hard to identify what all takes place as we evolve into our own – it just happens naturally. We start out with little consciousness, go through what seems like some very long, dark, and confusing experiences of self-discovery, and then we begin to see the light as the chrysalis begins to split. This is when we can look back and thank the struggles, both influential and […]
Redefining Beauty
For the first time in my life, I am not afraid of living in my body. I don’t wish I had another body and hopefully I never will. The feeling of not being good enough, or thinking that you will not be accepted the way you are, has been a subconscious voice for the longest time. With the help of the Mind Body Eating Coach Certification Training I learned that I AM ENOUGH just the […]
We Can Only Heal From A Place Of Love
One day, after walking around Whole Foods for a half hour, with nothing in my cart, I went home and had a complete breakdown. After spending 18 months committed to a gut-healing diet that wasn’t working, I felt torn between surrendering and persevering. I was afraid that if I stopped the diet, my digestive symptoms would get worse. And, yet, I didn’t think I could go another day of eating such a strict, boring and […]
Finding My Self-Worth
I have been called an overachiever my whole life. As a child, I continually sought the approval of the elders in my life. My greatest fear was disappointing them. It never occurred to me that having my own dreams was even a possibility. I have collected degrees, certifications and extra trainings to make me feel worthy. I have also struggled with weight and body image issues since childhood. My mind and body seemed to be […]