The author of When Food is Comfort, Julie M. Simon will be joining us today to discuss the following:

▪How we can develop self regulation, or the ability to manage emotions, moods, thoughts, impulses and behaviors.

▪Seven skills that make up your “Inner Nurturing” – plus the insight, tools and tips that will help you practice self- connection and self-nurturance.

About the Book

If you regularly eat when you’re not truly hungry, choose unhealthy comfort foods, or eat beyond fullness, something is out of balance. Recent advances in brain science have uncovered the crucial role that our early social and emotional environment plays in the development of imbalanced eating patterns. When we do not receive consistent and sufficient emotional nurturance during our early years, we are at greater risk of seeking it from external sources, such as food. Despite logical arguments, we have difficulty modifying our behavior because we are under the influence of an emotionally dominant part of the brain.

The good news is that the brain can be rewired for optimal emotional health. When Food Is Comfort presents a breakthrough mindfulness practice called Inner Nurturing, a comprehensive, step-by-step program developed by an author who was herself an emotional eater. You’ll learn how to nurture yourself with the loving-kindness you crave and handle stressors more easily so that you can stop turning to food for comfort. Improved health and self-esteem, more energy, and weight loss will naturally follow.

About our Guest

Meet Julie!

Julie M. Simon, MA, MBA, MFT is a psychotherapist and life coach, and the bestselling author of The Emotional Eater’s Repair Manual—A Practical Mind/Body/Spirit Guide for Putting an End to Overeating and Dieting. Her new book, When Food is Comfort: Nurture Yourself Mindfully, Rewire Your Brain and End Emotional Eating is available to pre-order now. Julie is an inspirational speaker and for the past 27+ years, Julie has been helping overeaters and imbalanced eaters heal their relationships with themselves, their bodies and food, stop dieting, lose excess weight and keep it off. Julie is the founder and director of The Twelve-Week Emotional Eating Recovery Program, an alternative to dieting that addresses the true causes of overeating and weight gain: emotional and spiritual hunger and body imbalance. She is also a certified personal trainer with twenty-five years of experience designing personalized exercise and nutrition programs for various populations. Julie has been a featured expert on numerous TV and radio shows and she loves to light up the stage at events, wake people up about their phenomenal mind, body and spirit signals and help them learn to nurture themselves mindfully without turning to food. Learn more—> .