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10/23/2026

You know those days when nothing is technically wrong, but by the end of it you feel like you’ve had enough of absolutely everything? 😵‍💫

It’s the emails, the texts, the decisions, the interruptions, the noise, the stuff you’re trying not to forget. None of it seems like that big of a deal on its own, but all day long, it adds up. And then suddenly someone asks you one more question and you’re like, “I literally cannot process another thing.”

I know when I feel extra scattered, irritated, or mentally fried, this is definitely part of it for me. Sometimes it’s not one big thing. It’s just WAY too much input and stimulation for far too long. ❤️

10/22/2026

A lot of advice about stress eating jumps pretty quickly to, “Find another coping skill.” 🧘‍♀️

Take a walk. Breathe. Journal. Step outside. Make tea. Put on calming music.

And sometimes those things really do help. Maybe you go from feeling like an 8 out of 10 to a 5, your shoulders drop a little, and you feel less keyed up.

But feeling calmer is not the same thing as changing what keeps stressing you out. 🔎

If you’re overwhelmed because you’ve taken on too much, a breathing exercise doesn’t change your workload. You might feel calmer after a walk, but the conversation you’ve been dreading is still waiting for you.

And 10 minutes of journaling may genuinely help you decompress...while your days remain so packed that you’re right back at your limit tomorrow.

So the stress starts building again...and food starts sounding pretty good again. 😬

That doesn’t mean the coping skill “didn’t work.” It may have done exactly what it was supposed to do and helped you get through a difficult moment.

💡 So instead of only asking, “How do I calm down?” it may help to also ask, “What keeps creating the need for so much soothing in the first place?”

Maybe your days are packed from morning to night. Maybe you keep agreeing to things you don’t really have the capacity for, there’s a conversation you keep putting off, or you’re the one remembering, organizing, and handling a hundred little things for everyone else.

Or maybe you’re in a genuinely hard season that you CAN’T just fix right now, and what you need is more support for getting through it.

Sometimes you need a way to get through the stress. Sometimes there’s something in your life that actually needs your attention. And often, both are true.

That’s a big part of the Stress & Soothing Loop. Food can absolutely help you unwind for a little while. But if you keep ending up back at that same point, handing you a longer list of coping skills may not get us very far.

It’s worth looking at what keeps creating the need for so much relief and what keeps setting the loop in motion for YOU.

And this is only one of the seven binge eating loops I look for. More than one can be operating at the same time, so I don’t want to assume this is the whole story just because food tends to show up when life is overwhelming.

If you KNOW that stress is one of your eating triggers but still can’t figure out why the urges keep coming back, this is the kind of thing I want to understand with you in my Complimentary Binge Pattern Assessment. ❤️

I’ll ask targeted questions about what tends to happen before, during, and after your eating so we can look for patterns and connections that are often really hard to see when you’re the one living inside of them.

The goal is for you to leave with a clearer understanding of what may be contributing to the urges, what may be keeping the cycle going, and where it makes the most sense to focus next.

👉 Comment “STRESS” below and I’ll send you the details for the Complimentary Binge Pattern Assessment.

10/19/2026

Want to know something that’s confusing about stress eating?

Sometimes you reach for food right in the middle of a stressful moment...and sometimes you don’t want it until everything is finally over.

You make it through the workday, answer the emails, deal with whatever your kids need, figure out dinner, finish the last thing on your list. Then things finally get quieter, and that’s when you find yourself looking for something to eat.

Which can leave you thinking, “Why am I doing this now? I’m not even that stressed anymore!” But stress doesn’t always disappear the second the stressful part ends.

Sometimes you’ve been so busy staying focused, solving problems, and pushing through that you barely have time to notice how overwhelmed you are. It’s only once you finally have a little space that you realize how badly you want some kind of relief.

Other times, the eating happens right in the middle of the overwhelm because you need something to take the edge off.

Both can be part of what I call Loop 2: The Stress & Soothing Loop. 🔎

And it doesn’t have to take one huge stressful event to set the loop in motion. Sometimes it’s 20 smaller things that have been piling up since 8:00 that morning.

💡 Take a look at the graphic and notice the timing of the eating can make the trigger harder to recognize. If you hold it together all afternoon and don’t start grazing until you’re finally sitting on the couch at 9:00, it’s easy to assume the eating came out of nowhere.

But you may have spent the entire day moving from one demand to the next without much opportunity to notice what you needed, let alone do anything about it. By the time you finally stop, food can offer something very quickly: a way to take the edge off, decompress, and come down from the overload.

And for a little while, it works. This is important because food isn’t behaving like the enemy in this loop...it’s doing a job.
Maybe eating helps you settle after being “on” all day. Maybe it quiets some of the mental noise or gives you a few minutes where everything feels a little less overwhelming.

That doesn’t mean it’s wrong to use food to unwind sometimes. But if food has become the thing you rely on night after night to finally feel some relief, it’s worth understanding what role it has started playing for you.

So, this week, instead of only asking, “Why did I eat that?” notice what was happening around the eating.

🔎 Were you in the middle of the stress or had you finally reached the point where you were trying to come down from it?

Then notice what changed once you started eating. Did you feel less tense? Did your thoughts slow down? Did everything feel a little less overwhelming for a few minutes?

Those shifts can give you important clues about what food is helping you manage in that moment. You don’t have to immediately figure out how to stop doing it. Just start by noticing what the food helped change for you, even if it was only for a few minutes.

Understanding the role food is playing is a much better place to start than judging yourself for reaching for it. ❤️

10/15/2026

One of the hardest things about the Restriction–Overeating Loop is that the restriction often feels like the solution.

You overeat one night and wake up thinking, “Okay, I need to get this under control.” So you eat a lighter breakfast, skip the snack, avoid the bread at lunch, or promise yourself you’re going to be “better” today. At first, that can actually feel relieving because now you have a plan.

But by late afternoon or evening, food is taking up more space in your head. You’re thinking about what you can have, what you shouldn’t have, whether you’ve eaten too much already, and whether you can make it to dinner without eating anything else.

Then the thing you were trying so hard to prevent happens again. You eat more than you planned, and because it feels like you “lost control,” your brain comes up with the same answer it gave you last time:

You need to be stricter tomorrow.

That’s the trap. The restriction feels like the thing that will finally stop the overeating, while the overeating becomes more evidence that you NEED the restriction.

💡 Meanwhile, the constant “Can I have this?” “Should I have this?” and “Did I already eat too much?” can keep food feeling mentally loud all day.

That’s why this loop can keep going for years. And this is usually where someone says to me, “Okay...but if I stop restricting, won’t I just eat everything?” 😬

That fear makes sense when every time you loosen the rules, you feel like you eat WAY more than you intended. So now you’re stuck: the restriction may be contributing to the overeating, but the overeating seems to prove that you can’t trust yourself without the restriction.

Getting out of this loop isn’t as simple as throwing every food rule away overnight and hoping for the best. It means understanding where restriction is showing up for you, what happens when you try to loosen those rules, and what makes eating without those rules feel so uncomfortable or uncertain in the first place.
If you’re starting to realize, “Ohhh...I may be restricting a lot more than I thought,” but have NO idea how you’re supposed to loosen those rules without feeling even more out of control, that’s what we can look at in my Complimentary Binge Pattern Assessment. ❤️

You’ll walk me through what’s been happening with your eating, and I’ll help you identify where restriction may be showing up, how it may be interacting with the overeating, and whether any of the other binge eating loops may also be part of the picture.

The goal is for you to leave with a clearer understanding of your pattern, why it may be happening, and what may need to change to start shifting it.

👉 Apply here for your Complimentary Binge Pattern Assessment:
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10/12/2026

A lot of women tell me, “But Jessica, I’m not dieting anymore.”

And in some ways, they’re right. They’re not counting points, following a meal plan, or doing Whole30. But once we start talking about what’s actually happening in their head around food, I often hear things like:

👉 “I already had something sweet today.”
👉 “I should probably wait until dinner.”
👉 “I ate too much last night, so I’m keeping it light today.”
👉 “I really shouldn’t keep that in the house because I can’t control myself around it.”

So no, maybe there isn’t a formal diet anymore. But a lot of the rules are often still there.

This is one reason the Restriction–Overeating Loop can be so easy to miss. 🔎

Most women hear the word “restriction” and think it only counts if they’re barely eating, skipping meals on purpose, or following a rigid diet.

But restriction can be much subtler than that.

It can look like mentally monitoring food all day, trying to “be good,” compensating for what you ate yesterday, delaying eating because you think you should have more willpower, or constantly negotiating with yourself about whether you’ve “earned” something.

You may call it being healthy, getting back on track, or trying to feel more in control around food. And because it doesn’t necessarily LOOK like restriction, it can be really hard to see how it connects to what happens later when you overeat.

💡 Take a look at the graphic and notice where the cycle actually begins.

It doesn’t begin with the overeating. Instead, it may begin when you look in the mirror and decide you need to “get it together” or when you wake up feeling guilty about the night before and decide you’re going to be extra careful with food today.

In the moment, that can feel like the responsible response because you’re trying to prevent yourself from overeating again.

But the restriction you’re using to try to prevent another episode of overeating may actually be helping set up the next one.

Then when overeating happens again, it can feel like proof that you weren’t strict enough or didn’t have enough willpower. So another round of restriction feels necessary, and the loop starts again.

This is why you can stop following diets without fully leaving dieting behind.

The rules can get quieter and sound a lot more reasonable, but they can still make food decisions feel high-stakes and take up way too much space in your head.

So here’s something to pay attention to this week:

What food rules are still hanging around, even though you don’t consider yourself “on a diet” anymore?

10/08/2026

You can know a LOT about emotional eating and still have absolutely no idea what to do when real life doesn’t go the way the book, podcast, or Instagram post made it sound like it would.

Maybe you understand your triggers. You know restriction can affect your eating. You’ve learned coping skills and different ways to respond when an urge hits.

But then real life happens, and you find yourself thinking something like this:

You think, “I understand the lesson...but I binged last night anyway.”

Or, “I know I was triggered, but I still don’t know what I’m supposed to do with that.”

Or, “I stopped restricting and now I feel MORE anxious around food. Is that normal?”

This is one of the biggest reasons I created The Finding Food & Body Freedom Formula as a 6 month supported program, not just a library of videos and worksheets.

Yes, there’s a full curriculum. We work on food rules and diet culture, body cues and attuned eating, emotional and binge eating patterns, and body image.

But the curriculum is only one part of the program. You also get 6 months of support from me while you actually put what you’re learning into practice.

I don’t expect you to watch a lesson about food rules and instantly recognize every rule affecting YOUR eating. I don’t expect you to understand what a trigger is and suddenly know why you binge after one stressful day but not another.

And I definitely don’t expect you to do everything perfectly for six months. 😊

That’s why we HAVE six months.

You learn something. You try it in your actual life. You notice what comes up. You bring those questions back to me. We look at what’s happening, make adjustments, and you keep practicing.

Through weekly Q&A coaching calls, individual sessions with me, and our private community, you have places to bring the confusing moments, the questions, and the things that aren’t working the way you expected.

That might sound like,“Okay, Jessica. I understand this in theory, but here’s what actually happened last night...”

Or, “I tried what we talked about, and I’m still confused about what was going on.”

THAT’S the stuff I want you to bring to me because real life does not unfold according to a perfectly organized workbook, and changing your relationship with food usually doesn’t, either.

🔎 The goal isn’t for you to collect even MORE information about emotional eating. It’s for your relationship with food to actually change.

So if you’ve read the books, listened to the podcasts, saved the Instagram posts, and learned the coping skills, and you’re still thinking, “I know so much about this. Why am I still struggling?” you may need help understanding what’s happening in YOUR pattern and support while you actually work on changing it.

❤️ If you’re reading this thinking, “THIS is the kind of support I’ve been looking for,” comment FFBFF below and I’ll send you the details so you can see exactly how the program works and whether it feels like the right fit for you.

10/05/2026

A woman can spend years trying to be “good” with food.

She follows the plan, avoids the foods she thinks she shouldn’t eat, promises herself she’ll have more discipline tomorrow, and feels awful when she can’t keep it going.

Then eventually she learns something important: more control over food isn’t the answer. 💡

So she starts approaching things differently. She learns about emotional eating, pays attention to her triggers, and picks up tools for dealing with stress or uncomfortable feelings without automatically turning to food.

Then one night, after a miserable day, she wants ice cream and finds herself thinking:

“Okay, I should figure out what I’m feeling first. Maybe I should journal. I probably need to sit with the emotion for a while. I’m not physically hungry, so I really shouldn’t eat the ice cream.”

And without even realizing it, she’s created a whole new set of rules about how she’s “supposed” to handle wanting food.

You learn a helpful tool and start wondering whether you’re using it correctly. You learn that food may be doing something for you in that moment, and now you feel pressure to figure out exactly what that is. You sit with an emotion, then get frustrated when you STILL want the food.

And when you eventually eat anyway, the thought becomes:

“I know all of this stuff. Why am I STILL doing it?”

Sometimes the issue isn’t that you need another coping skill. It may be that the same right/wrong framework you’ve applied to food is now getting applied to how you think you’re supposed to respond to an urge.

Instead of asking, “Did I eat the right thing?” the question becomes, “Did I handle the urge the right way?”

That can turn helpful tools into new rules, such as:

• “I should be able to figure out what I’m feeling.”
• “I should regulate myself before I eat.”
• “I should be able to sit with this urge.”
• “If I know what I need, I shouldn’t still want the food.”

Journaling, regulating, and understanding what you’re feeling can all be useful. But they don’t have to become another way to measure whether you handled the moment “correctly.”

You can understand exactly what you’re feeling and still want the ice cream. You can use a tool and still eat afterward.

Neither means you failed because the goal isn’t to become really, really good at responding to every urge “correctly.” It’s to move away from the idea that there’s one correct way you have to handle food, emotions, or yourself.

And if you’ve learned SO much about emotional eating but still find yourself wondering, “Why am I still doing this?” pay attention to whether the tools you’ve learned have started to feel like another set of rules.

That may be part of what’s keeping you stuck. ❤️

10/02/2026

There’s something about fall that feels like an invitation to slow down a little. 🍂

Maybe it’s the shorter days, the cooler weather, or just watching nature shift gears, but it feels like a good reminder that we don’t always have to be pushing, doing, and accomplishing. And I think we spend too much time giving ourselves rules about what we should be doing, how productive we should be, what we should say yes to, and when we’ve finally “earned” the right to slow down or enjoy something.

So consider this your permission slip for the season. 💛

What would YOU add to the list?

10/01/2026

Megan came to me because she wanted help with binge eating.

She was tired of thinking about food, feeling out of control, and waking up the next morning ashamed and promising herself she was going to “get it together” this time.

But as we talked, she started telling me about other things too.

She told me about trips she wanted to take but kept putting off because she didn’t want to be in a swimsuit. She avoided pictures and dreaded shopping for clothes because of how she felt about her body. She had pulled back from friends and spent experiences that were supposed to be fun thinking about how she looked instead of fully enjoying what was happening around her.

At one point she stopped and said:

💬 “I didn’t realize how much this impacted other parts of my life besides what I was eating.”

She had known about each of those things individually. What she hadn’t seen was how they connected to the same struggle that had brought her to me for help with her eating.

🧩 This is a huge part of the work I do with women: helping them see the PATTERN underneath what’s happening with food.

If you’re bingeing at night, I don’t only want to know what you ate or how much… I want to know what happened during the HOURS before you ended up in the kitchen.

Did you eat enough that day? Were you restricting because of what you ate yesterday? What was happening emotionally? What were you telling yourself about food?

And I want to know what happened afterward… did you wake up ashamed and skip breakfast? Promise yourself you’d “be good”? Become even more determined to control your eating?

🔎 Because when we connect those pieces, what looked like separate problems can reveal a pattern that’s been reinforcing itself for YEARS.

Maybe you restrict because you’re worried about gaining weight. By nighttime, you binge. Then you feel even worse about yourself and wake up determined to regain control, so you restrict again...and the cycle keeps feeding itself.

If you don’t recognize the whole pattern, it’s easy to spend years learning about emotional eating and trying different things without understanding what’s actually keeping YOUR cycle going.

🔎 That’s where another set of trained eyes can be incredibly valuable. During a free Binge Pattern Blueprint Assessment, we’ll map out what tends to happen before, during, and after your emotional or binge eating, what may be driving and reinforcing your pattern, where the things you’ve already tried may be missing the mark, and what I believe you need to work on first.

We’ll also look for connections between your eating, food rules, emotions, body image, past experiences, and the other pieces that may be contributing.

And you don’t need to figure out which of those things applies to you before we talk. That’s my job.

I’ll listen to what you’ve been experiencing, ask the questions you may not have known to ask yourself, and help you connect the dots so you can understand why you keep ending up in the same cycle.

My goal is for you to leave with something you may not have after YEARS of trying to solve this on your own: clarity about what’s actually keeping YOUR pattern going and what I would recommend working on first to change it.

💛 If you’re tired of trying one more thing and hoping THIS will finally be the thing that works, comment CLARITY below.

I’ll send you the link to book your free assessment so you can stop guessing at what you need and leave with a clearer path toward feeling calm and in control around food.

09/28/2026

“I mean...it’s not THAT bad.”

I sometimes hear women say this when they’re talking about their emotional or binge eating.

And I understand why because they’re still going to work, taking care of their families, paying bills, answering emails, making appointments, and getting approximately 4,000 things done every day. From the outside, life looks pretty normal.

But then we start talking about some of the smaller decisions they’ve been making because of how they feel about food or their body, such as…

They take the family photo instead of being in it. They don’t get in the pool because they don’t want anyone seeing them in a swimsuit.

They turn down dinner because getting dressed and figuring out what to wear feels awful that day. They put off a doctor’s appointment because they don’t want to be weighed or have another conversation about their body.

Or they go on the vacation, attend the party, take the kids to the beach...but spend so much of it thinking about their body, what they ate, or what they’re going to eat next that they’re not really getting to be fully there.

💡 Sometimes the biggest cost isn’t what your struggle with food is making you DO. It’s everything your struggle with food and your body is convincing you NOT to do.

And it usually happens gradually. It happens one dinner, photo, swimsuit, appointment, or “No thanks, I don’t really feel like going” at a time. Eventually, you can get so used to accommodating the struggle that you stop noticing how much you’re accommodating it.

Of course, not wanting your picture taken or skipping a dinner with friends doesn’t automatically mean it has anything to do with food or your body.

🧩 But when you look at the pattern as a whole, you may realize that your relationship with food and your body is getting a vote in WAY more of your life than you realized.

We spend so much time focusing on the eating itself: How much did I eat? Why did I eat that? Why couldn’t I stop? How do I make sure I don’t do it again tonight?

But I also want to know…what is your struggle with food keeping you from?

Because what you want may be much bigger than “I just want to stop bingeing or overeating.” You want to get in the picture, be present on vacation, wear what you want, enjoy dinner, get in the pool, be close to your partner, and say YES because you actually want to.

You want food and how you feel about your body to stop determining the boundaries of your life.

💛 What’s ONE thing you wish food or your body didn’t get a vote in anymore?

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