37: Trauma, Our Inner Critic, and Emotional Eating with Lynn Louise Larson

Speaking of Hungry

Do you have past trauma or an inner critic in your head that dictates who you are today and driving you to eat emotionally?

Lynn Louise Larson is talking to me about how past trauma and our inner critic are shaping the landscape for how we live. We talk about her past relationship with food and running. A running injury changed her story and how she was able to approach food and her body, as well as her career.

Women have been struggling with diet culture for generations. Lynn talks about how our inner critic is trying to protect us, yet it’s demeaning and relentless, and there are ways to change this inner critic.

This one’s all about habit change!!! Lynn Louise works with women so that they don’t have to struggle for years the way she did with her body image. We discuss:

• The power of community in a group program to help the healing process.
• How she guides women through the process of letting go of trauma so they can embrace and design the life that they deserve.
• Her past life obsession with running and diets that made her look fit on the outside but on the inside, she was falling apart.
• How calorie-counting led to binge-eating at night followed by shame, and then the use of running as a compensatory coping strategy.
• A running injury stopped her in her tracks, she gained weight, and then realized diets weren’t helping and that she needed to start her healing work on the inside.
• Why emotional eating is NOT a food addiction.
• How generations of women have been struggling with diet culture's body shaming, restriction, and lack of self-worth.
• How diets and exercise as a response to “fix” emotional eating are external and none of this looks at us internally.
• How your inner critic is there trying to keep you safe but it can be nasty and relentless.
• How she recovered from rape but her identity was that she was a rape victim. This identity held her back from trying to move forward in her life.
• When we are surrounded by so many wonderful things in our life we don’t realize how a past traumatic experience is still holding us back.

Lynn Louise is a NY-based NASM personal trainer, aromatherapist, meditation guide, and reflexologist. She privately coaches women of all ages, shapes, and sizes through her Stop Emotional Eating training program. She helps women trust themselves around food and live the life they’re meant to live free from food rules and body hatred.

Please note, Lynn Louise mentions a free training in this episode that has already passed. Scroll below to find a link where you can access the replay up until May 3, 2020.

Mentioned in this episode:

Lynn Louise’s podcast

Work with Lynn Louise

Lynn Louise on Instagram

Lynn Louise on Facebook

Healing Your Body Through the Power of Your Mind - a replay of free coaching event mentioned in this episode available until May 3, 2020

Alison's group online intuitive eating program - Register by April 30th to save $100!

Alison's 1:1 or group coaching options

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