Today I'm joined by Lauren Carlisle Brown, the emotions coach, for a conversation that gets right to the heart of why feeling our feelings is so much harder than it sounds. If you've ever known that emotions were driving your eating but had no idea what to actually do about it, this episode is going to give you a whole new way to think about that.

Lauren shares her Emotions Manifesto: five truths we can choose to believe about our feelings, and we dig into why feeling our emotions is so much harder than it sounds, and what to do instead of going straight to food when something feels too big to handle.

What You'll Discover:

• The five truths about emotions that can change everything. Lauren's Emotions Manifesto and why choosing to believe them matters
• Why we struggle to feel our feelings in the first place and why it has nothing to do with being broken
• The emotional flow map. Four ways we handle emotions and how to move through them with more awareness and less shame
• What your food cravings might actually be telling you and how to use that information as a starting point

If you've ever thought "I know I'm eating to avoid something, but I don't know what else to do", this conversation is for you.

Lauren's free worksheet to go deeper with this work is linked below.

Resources mentioned:

• Lauren's worksheet
• Lauren's podcast: All the Feels with Lauren Carlisle Brown Listen on Apple | Spotify
• Lauren's website: laurencarlislebrown.com
• Lauren's course: The Emotions Crash Course

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If you've ever started a day completely certain it would be different, only to find yourself in the same place again by the end of the day, this episode is for you.

We explore the gap between knowing and doing, why it has nothing to do with willpower, and what's actually happening underneath the surface when that determined morning version of you seems to completely disappear.

What You'll Discover:

• Why the "knowing/doing" gap is a nervous system signal, not a willpower failure
• How the part of you that binges is actually trying to help you, not hurt you
• Why shame makes it nearly impossible to find real answers
• The questions that can actually open something new and the ones that keep you stuck

If you've been asking yourself what is wrong with me? This episode offers a different question entirely, and helps you understand what's really going on.

If you're ready to explore this work with additional support, schedule a Breakthrough Call today.

Want to know why you struggle with food and what to do next? Start watching The Binge Breakthrough Mini Series today.

If you've ever felt like you're either doing it perfectly or completely blowing it, this episode offers a different way to think about your journey with food. We explore what black-and-white thinking looks like around eating, why rigid standards can actually create the very behaviors we're trying to stop, and how learning to look for progress — not perfection — changes everything.

What You'll Discover:

• Why all-or-nothing thinking keeps you stuck in binge cycles
• What progress with food can actually look like (it might surprise you)
• Why small changes are more powerful than big overhauls
• How what you focus on shapes what you create more of

If you've been measuring your days as good or bad, and the bad days keep leading to more bad days — this episode offers a way out of that cycle.

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