My son and I just spent 3 days in Northern Italy learning how to ski.

While it wasn’t my first time standing on skis, I hadn’t skied down any slope in over 20 years. The more I familiarized myself with the ins and outs of this snow sport, the more I recognized all the lessons that learning how to ski holds when it comes to self-love and body image. Why?

Find out in this latest episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast.

In this episode I share:

• • Why the ski slope is a perfect metaphor for the personal journey toward embracing our body image and practicing self-love
  • How skiing is an exercise in vulnerability
  • The importance of patience and self-compassion when learning something new
  • How to find joy in every moment, even and especially when you heal your body image
  • And many more lessons about the impact of (re-)learning this skill has on leadership and personal growth

You know that the journey towards body positivity and self-love is complex and multifaceted. It requires us to embrace our vulnerabilities, practice patience and kindness towards ourselves, and find joy in our personal growth. Learning to ski taught me that every fall is an opportunity to rise stronger and that the true joy lies in the journey, not just the destination.

As you walk the path of learning to accept yourself for who you are, remember to be gentle with yourself, to embrace each fall as a lesson, and to cherish the beautiful, exhilarating journey of becoming your most authentic self. Because you are worth it!

If you have thoughts or experiences related to emotional eating, I’d love to hear from you!

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Love and light,

Anne-Sophie

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Finally Free – Guided Meditations for Freedom from Emotional Eating

Stop the Binge-Diet Cycle for Real

Emotional eating doesn’t fix emotional problems – even if it feels like it in the moment. It only makes you feel ashamed, guilty and, well, stuffed. With meditation, you can learn to stop, free yourself and create inner balance and healthy (= sane) eating habits again.

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In this episode of Escape Diet Prison, I delve into the intricate world of emotional eating. It’s a topic that touches many of you, often shrouded in confusion and misunderstanding. Today, I explore this further, shedding light on what it is, its triggers, the brain’s role, and most importantly, how you can manage it effectively.

What is Emotional Eating?

Emotional eating is when we use food as a way to manage or suppress our emotions. It’s not about hunger; it’s about responding to feelings. Whether it’s stress, boredom, sadness, or even joy, emotional eating is our psychological response to these states, often leading us to seek comfort in food.

Triggers of Emotional Eating

Stress is a major player here, especially evident during challenging. Emotional eating can also surge during holidays and seasonal changes, as these periods can be filled with a mix of stress and celebratory emotions.

The Brain and Food Connection

Fascinating research shows that emotional eating is linked to how our brain reacts to food. Emotional eaters often experience increased activity in brain areas associated with emotional processing and reward, such as the insula and amygdala. This heightened response can make certain foods feel almost irresistible during emotional upheavals.

Effective Tools to Manage Emotional Food Cravings

• Mindfulness: Being present and acknowledging cravings without judgment.
• Physical Activities: Engaging in exercise or hobbies that divert attention from emotional cravings.
• Journaling: Writing down thoughts and feelings to understand and manage emotions better.
• Emotional Support: Seeking support from friends, family, or professionals.

Next Steps

1. Identify Your Triggers: Understanding what drives your emotional eating is crucial.
2. Develop Healthier Coping Mechanisms: Find activities that can replace the urge to eat when emotional.
3. Practice Mindful Eating: Eat slowly and without distraction, and learn to differentiate between physical hunger and emotional cravings.

Emotional eating is a complex issue that intertwines our psychological state with our eating habits. It’s essential to recognize that overcoming it goes beyond simple willpower. With awareness, understanding, and the right strategies, it’s possible to develop a healthier relationship with food and our emotions.

If you have thoughts or experiences related to emotional eating, I’d love to hear from you!

I’d be super grateful if you took a moment to leave a review on iTunes. Simply click this link, click Listen on Apple Podcasts, go to Reviews and Ratings and then Write a Review.

Love and light,

Anne-Sophie

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Note: This podcasts is now also available on Stitcher!

365 Journaling Prompts for more Body-Confidence, Self-Love & Happiness

This self-reflective program will support you in using the power of writing to nurture yourself, connect with your body and replace paralyzing doubts with loving acceptance.

Finally Free – Guided Meditations for Freedom from Emotional Eating

Stop the Binge-Diet Cycle for Real

Emotional eating doesn’t fix emotional problems – even if it feels like it in the moment. It only makes you feel ashamed, guilty and, well, stuffed. With meditation, you can learn to stop, free yourself and create inner balance and healthy (= sane) eating habits again.

Get your meditation album here.

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In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast, I share the number 1 alternative to dieting, why it’s important to create a personal mission statement and how I created the life I’ve dreamt in the last 2 years.

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Love and light,

Anne-Sophie

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In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast, I open up about my struggles with severe depression, share some exciting news with you, give you a glimpse behind the scenes of what happened in the last few months and I’m looking ahead toward the future of this work.

I talk about tapping, being boldly magnificent, coming to terms with feelings and situations you don’t want to accept and learning to be extra kind towards yourself.

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Love and light,

Anne-Sophie

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I have super exciting news. I am leading a whole new LIVE round of my best-selling program NEXT LEVEL LIVING.

If you’ve been living a life of disconnection, of fear, of struggling with self-acceptance and body image fears, please know that there IS a different life in the stars for you.

You CAN learn to surrender to your feelings and create freedom around your painful stories, destructive thoughts and toxic beliefs.

You CAN (and yes you will) be happy, full of bliss even if there are moments of despair.

You CAN walk through life full of self-confidence and body-esteem even if you are done with shaping and forming and twisting yourself into a body that was not meant for you.
You CAN create your next level (or – for most of us – first level) LIFE.

A life that is actually worth living.

Check out the details here and be sure to take advantage of the Early Bird Offer! https://www.annesophie.us/next-level-living/

If you need a payment plan, contact me.

If you want to get the ultimate support, choose the VIP option. It’s 50% off for existing clients.

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In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast, I share 5 steps to incorporate self-care into your life and embrace yourself on a whole new level.

When I first began taking the concept of self-care really seriously, it felt quite uncomfortable to me.

How would I be able to take care of myself in a way that was actually nurturing instead of destructive? How could I be kind and loving to myself instead of feeling hateful and ashamed? How could I ever feel at home in my body and soul when all I wanted was to be someone I was not?

I didn’t know the answers but I knew that I needed self-care big time. I was drowning in my guilt and shame and I knew that turning around my view of self-care was essential for me in order to pave a path to more self-love and to a healthier life. So, slowly, step by step, I dipped my toes into the practice of self-care and with it, I began to recover from an almost life-long battle with self-esteem and self-kindness.

Over the years, I learned that taking care of myself was an ongoing practice, but that I didn’t have to put myself into a box (you probably know how much I hate being “imprisoned” in systems) in order to succeed at continuously making sure that I was looking after my needs.

I created a framework for self-love that is not only super flexible but also super effective and today, I’d love to share this framework with you.

Here are 5 steps to incorporating the practice of self-care into your life.

Commit to Self-Care

The first step towards any change is always commitment. A really, effin’ big commitment. A daily commitment, in fact.

You need to make a pact with yourself, promising yourself to do what it takes to take care of YOU.

Now, to be totally transparent, I had to renew this promise many times as I slipped and fell, but with each renewal, my resolve grew.

So, commit to your healing, commit to your self-care, commit to your life. Every single day.

Touch

Don’t be afraid of touching your body. When we lack self-esteem, feel big and too much, we often have no idea where our boundaries are. The more we touch, the more we’ll know where we begin and where we stop.

This creates an unmeasurable level of self-awareness and it also elevates your relationship with your body and weight. You can’t continue to live in your head, but truly need to drop into your body more and more.

Touch will do that for you.

Let go

Part of my self-care practice was to let go of many thoughts, concepts, “realities”, dreams, and people in order to gain life, energy and joy.

I let go of toxic friends who were constantly talking about diets and weight loss. I let go of Facebook pages because of the constant bombardment with “positive thinking” without any research or actual tools behind their words.

Over time, I began to say goodbye to the dream of being someone else, someone my parents wanted me to be (aka. a doctor or a CEO, someone who was suuuuper successful in society’s eyes). I released the desire inside of staying a little kid without female curves or responsibilities of an adult and instead began to take ownership over my life and my heart’s longings.

Letting go, saying goodbye, and decluttering is a big process on the way to cultivating a rock-solid and life-affirming self-care practice. If you do it consciously and courageously, you’ll take huge leaps forward and live a kind of freedom that you may now only dream of.

Use your senses

Walk barefoot and feel the blades of grass touching your feet. Use essential oils and make it a game to become aware of all the nuances in the scent. Feel the rain or the sun kiss your skin. What do you notice? What does it feel like? Massage your hands when you’re at work. Stretch when you get out of bed and allow your body to greet your soul. Close your eyes and listen to the world’s sounds with all of the most incredible details.

The possibilities are endless here.

By using your senses, you drop into your body, which grounds you when you feel flighty and anxious.

Honesty for Self-Care

That is probably the biggest, most scary self-care practice I started and still commit to: brutal honesty with myself. I lied so much when I was caught in the traps of my eating disorder and had zero self-esteem. I lied and cheated and lied some more: to myself, to others, to everyone who threatened to take away my identity of being a sick person.

And even when I began to take my life in my own hands, I still lied. I lied because I was ashamed and the crazy thing is that the more I lied, the more I hurt myself. Lying feels so easy, doesn’t it? But admitting and telling the truth is hard. However, the moment I was really honest with myself, things began to shift. I got help, I accepted support, I began to see that I had to change my ways but that I didn’t have to face this struggle alone.

Honesty is a profound practice that uplifts your life and takes away the shame and fear we often feel.

My journey to cultivating self-love, true, solid self-love, is not over yet. As a Martha Beck Life Coach, I learned to use my body as a compass for walking towards my North Star. That way, my body guides me in making life’s decisions, a level of self-care I never could’ve dreamt of when I was struggling with my inner demons.

The most important lesson I learned while cultivating self-care and choosing life was the truth that our body is so wise. She is wise beyond your mind’s imagination and she knows your truth. Don’t destroy her, learn to love her, trust her, take care of her. One step at a time.

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Love and light,

Anne-Sophie

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The Covid-19 pandemic has the world holding our collective breath and has given birth to a tremendous amount of inner turmoil. Many of my clients talk about waking up in the middle of the night with panic attacks, experiencing major headaches and a general feeling of unease.

There’s the pain of the current situation, but also the fear of the future.

• When is this horror going to end?
• How are our lives ever go back to normal?
• Will I stay healthy or will a loved one be infected?
• What if my gym will stay closed for another for months?
• What’s going to happen after all of this?
• Can I ever go back to work again?
• Will my kid return to school this term?
• When will I see my friends again? My grandma? My sister?

These are just some of the questions we ask ourselves and create major (mostly painful) stories around; an endless loop of negative thoughts that keep us stuck in fear.

I love the dream of past and future. They seem so real. – Byron Katie

Yes, this is an extreme time. Yes, we are afraid. Yes, the future is uncertain.

But it’s never been any different.

In essence, nothing’s changed.

We’ve never been guaranteed a tomorrow or even a life in an hour. Life is uncertain in its essence – whether there’s a pandemic or not.

The worry about the future, the constant creation of horror scenarios inside your mind, the hopelessness and inner terror will not create the outcome you desire and will not change a thing about what is currently happening.

Instead of worrying, begin to allow yourself to be in the present, relax and create the grounds for power and aligned action. How? This is what I talk about in the podcast!

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Love and light,

Anne-Sophie

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In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast, I offer a glimpse behind the scenes of how we are dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic and how I can support you in these extreme times.

From meltdowns to immense gratitude to shame to joy, we’re going through a whirlwind of emotions and every single one of us has a unique experience and we need to make space for all of these emotions to express themselves. And I do mean, ALL fo them – the positive emotions, the expansive emotions, the happiness and love, just as much as sadness and fear.

If it feels super hard for you, please know that you are far from alone.

If you want to have some fun and just not think about the pandemic, it’s OK and you are not alone. 

If it feels overwhelming, if you’re angry, scared, bitter or have the feeling that you cannot breathe, it’s OK. This is how it is right now.

If you feel like crap because you sobbed into your child’s arms, it’s OK. This is how it is right now.

If it’s all too much and you just want it to be the way it used to be, it’s OK. But, yeah, this is how it is right now.

All you can do, really, is take deep breaths, do what you can, be extremely compassionate toward yourself and your loved ones and practice tender, loving kindness whenever possible.

If it gets too hard, reach out. Resource. Don’t believe that you have to do this on your own.

I am making extra space in my calendar for a few more coaching sessions this week, so if you feel called to dig deep and find strategies that will help you to get through this tough time, finding your very own core of peace and living your life from that deep sense of safety and nurture, book your complimentary discovery call with me now: annesophie.us/discovery

Your life is worth it.

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In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast I share my top 10 ways to romance yourself.

1. Have a date with yourself.

Pick a fancy restaurant (one that you usually only go to with a love interest or your partner) and dress up. Wear a sexy dress, do your hair and put make up on. Even wear super sexy underwear.

2. Send yourself a postcard.

I love this because it makes me appreciate myself, makes me chuckle and smirk. And there’s nothing better than coming home to a surprise postcard with a few beautiful and kind words written on them.

You can go a step further and write yourself a letter of appreciation and forgiveness.

Put it in a beautiful envelope and send it to yourself. This will make it even more special.

3. Stand in front of the mirror and proudly proclaim,

“I love my body.  I love my thighs, my hips and my tummy.  I appreciate all the incredible things that my body allows me to do.  I am perfect exactly the way I am”.  For bonus points, do this naked.

4. Buy yourself a bouquet of flowers or pick yourself a bunch of flowers.

Flowers; I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with them. I never really notice them when they’re there, but when they’re not – especially in spring – it feels weird. I have grown to loooove tulips or sun flowers and buying myself a bouquet makes me feel appreciated and taken care of.  Don’t wait for someone else to send you flowers, do it yourself and enjoy the dots of color in your home.

5. Be curious and listen to yourself.

Learn something new about yourself every day. What do you like? What fascinates you? If you were an animal which one would you be? If you were a superhero which one would you be?

Get to know yourself on a more intimate level than you’ve done before. Reduce all the noise of daily life, let go of all responsibilities for a few moments and simple get to know your core. You’ll be surprised at what you find out, I promise!

6. Be irresponsible.

You know the feeling of being in love, right? When you’re newly in love, all you care about is that one person that makes you so happy: you think about him all day long and nothing else seems to matter. Food, your job, your workouts, other friends, family, etc. nothing brings you that high that your boyfriend brings you. And this high makes you do some irresponsible things like, let’s say, get married after 6 weeks, spend more money than you should, skip work or other dates.

Well, you are your own biggest love, so it’s totally fine to be irresponsible in order to court yourself. Buy yourself a pair of new shoes, play hooky for a day to spend it outside with yourself, eat a few pieces of lemon cake and ditch your silly weight concerns. Etc. It’s OK to be irresponsible from time to time and HAVE FUN. Don’t take life too seriously, seriously.

7. Go on a hike with yourself.

Listen to music or an audiobook or simply listen to nature and observe it in all its glory.

8. Sign up for a brutally hard gym class.

This may not seem obvious to you and it may feel counterintuitive, but believe me, you’ll feel awesome after the class and you’ll discover amazing things about yourself.

9. Connect with your inner child: play with legos and color with pencils.

This’ll help you reconnect with your creative side and getting a bit silly will strengthen your self-confidence.

10. Do something you’ve always wanted to do.

What have you been dreaming of for most of your life? Have you always wanted to be a singer? Then do karaoke in a local pub. Have you always wanted to go to Thailand? Book a flight and do it. Have you always wanted to learn knitting? Sign up for a knitting class. Have you always wanted to speak Spanish? Start listening to podcasts or sign up for a class. The possibilities are endless.

BONUS TIP (had to add that to the list!): Smile at yourself. 

Smiling at yourself is one of the easiest, yet most powerful ways of showing love to yourself. Some smile tips include smiling at yourself in the mirror instead of beating yourself up, smiling at yourself upon waking up to great the day in a positive way, smiling through your tears (the single most awesome thing to do when you feel sad) or smiling while doing work you don’t really want to do. A smile makes everything better and shows that you appreciate yourself on a whole new level.

Enjoy this episode!

Love and light,

Anne-Sophie

 When you journal, magic ensues. 

You begin to hear yourself, feel yourself and trust yourself more and more.

Check out my Email Series 365 Journaling Prompts for more Body-Confidence, Self-Love & Happiness. This soul-opening program will be delivered to your inbox every single day for a year. Get the details here.

Want more support? Join the free Escape Diet Prison Facebook group to engage with others who are on the same path as you. We can only grow if we surround ourselves with like-minded people. If you don’t, you’ll stay stuck and that is a promise.

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In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast, I am joined by Melainie Rogers.

Melainie is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian (CEDRD) and Supervisor and is dedicated to supporting others in their quest to achieve long-term recovery. She is the Founder and Executive Director of BALANCE eating disorder treatment center and melainie rogers nutrition, llc.

We talk about:

• how a person knows if they have a problem with food
• weight concerns when going through puberty and what to do about it
• emotional triggers and dieting as a way of self-protection
• her recovery from anorexia and why her upbringing was so important in her healing journey
• her path to study nutrition and how her career evolved
• the immense stigma around binge eating disorders and what providers have to know
• the question whether you can remain vegan (or exclude other food groups) and still recover from an eating disorder
• why mental health issues and eating disorders are on the rise
• and so much more

Where to find Melainie:

Instagram: @balancedtx
Website: balancedtx.com

Enjoy this episode!

Love and light,

Anne-Sophie

 When you journal, magic ensues. 

You begin to hear yourself, feel yourself and trust yourself more and more.

Check out my Email Series 365 Journaling Prompts for more Body-Confidence, Self-Love & Happiness. This soul-opening program will be delivered to your inbox every single day for a year. Get the details here.

Enjoyed this episode? Share it with others in your life who MUST listen to it right now. YOU are a change maker in this world and your voice needs to be heard.

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In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast, I am joined by Victoria Welsby.

Victoria is a world-leading expert on body image and confidence, TEDx speaker and best-selling author. She went from being homeless, abused with self-esteem that was achingly low into the courageous fat activist and change maker she is today. Victoria helps people fall in love with themselves and is dedicated to shifting the way society views fat bodies.

We talk about:

• how she lived what a belief that her fat body was the cause of her misery
• why and how her mission in life has changed
• her experience on the BBC documentary “Who Are You Calling Fat?” and the intention behind her appearance on the show
• how she dealt with being around people who were convinced that it’s not OK to be fat
• body-image and self-esteem triggers and doubts
• the idea of fat being a disease and why health not being black or white
• why it’s so normal to feel body-shame and what you can do about it
• her journey from not having self-esteem to being the FIERCE fatty
• the processes behind EMDR and CBT
• why she believes that everyone should go to therapy
• you have to do scary things in order to get confident
• Anorexia in fat people and why eating disorders are more frequent in people who have bigger bodies
• the way that we eat as a society is deeply disordered
• it’s possible to deeply believe/know that you don’t need to be thin to get what you want!
• and so much more!

Where to find Victoria:

Website: www.fiercefatty.com
Instagram: @fierce.fatty
Facebook: @fiercefatty

Other resources we mention:

• Ragen Chastain

Previous episode with Victoria:

You Don’t Need To Punish Your Body Because You’re Fat

Ready to change YOUR life? Book your 30-minute discovery session with me here and start living a life free of diet prison today.

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Love and light,

Anne-Sophie

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“The feminine principle is here, she’s arrived. Women are waking up and they’re finding their voice and they are signing.”

In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast, I am joined by eating psychology pioneer, storyteller and author Dr. Anita Johnston.

Anita Johnston, Ph.D., CEDS is a clinical psychologist and certified eating disorder specialist and supervisor, working in the field of women’s issues and eating disorders for over 35 years.

She is the author of the best selling book, Eating in the Light of the Moon and co-creator of the Light of the Moon Cafe, a series of online interactive courses and women’s support circles, and Soul Hunger workshops. She is currently the Clinical Director of Ai Pono Hawaii eating disorder programs with out-patient programs on Oahu and the Big Island of Hawaii, and an ocean-front residential program on Maui.

We talk about:

• how her interest in disordered eating began and what she learned along the way
• what it’s like to have an uncanny ability to see the invisible
• why we’re all naturally metaphoric and what we can learn from the world of metaphors
• what happens to other areas of your life when you begin to restrict food
• the origins of why women question the experience of being female in our world and the patriarchy of the female body
• the meaning of archetypes as described by Carl Jung
• how to learn to trust the instincts of your body
• appreciating the value of your intuition
• the gift of your disordered eating
• how we can rebalance the feminine and masculine energies in our world
• what recovery from an eating disorder actually requires
• the deep connection between the menstrual cycle and the onset of eating disorders
• why the moon is such a powerful symbol for the Feminine
• the metaphor of the log
• the idea that there is a great amount of joy in the recovery process and that it can actually be fun!
• and so much more!

Where to find Anita:

Instagram: @lightofthemooncafe
Website: lightofthemooncafe.com and dranitajohnston.com

Other Resources we mention:

• Discover the Meaning Behind Your Food Cravings or Phobias
• Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling by Anita Johnston 

I’d be super grateful if you took a moment to leave a review on iTunes. Simply click this link, click Listen on Apple Podcasts, go to Reviews and Ratings and then Write a Review.

Enjoy this episode!

Love and light,

Anne-Sophie

 When you journal, magic ensues. 

You begin to hear yourself, feel yourself and trust yourself more and more.

Check out my Email Series 365 Journaling Prompts for more Body-Confidence, Self-Love & Happiness. This soul-opening program will be delivered to your inbox every single day for a year. Get the details here.

Want more support? Join the free Escape Diet Prison Facebook group to engage with others who are on the same path as you. We can only grow if we surround ourselves with like-minded people. If you don’t, you’ll stay stuck and that is a promise.

Enjoyed this episode? Share it with others in your life who MUST listen to it right now. YOU are a change maker in this world and your voice needs to be heard.

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