As a counselor who specializes in mindful eating and emotional self-care I come across the need for resting, downshifting and finding inner peace when clients first share their challenges and life stories with me. Often exhausted and burnt out, they have reached for food (or drink) to take the edge off, numb and cope with external stressors in their lives. As a culture we have subscribed to a way of life that’s fast and furious, and often quite stressful. To quote Brené Brown

“What if I fail again? I’ve tried so many diets and I always gain the weight back. Am I a hopeless case?” some of my clients ask. NO, they are not and you are not! We are all on a healing journey, we all have lessons to learn, obstacles to overcome, heal old wounds and recreate what was not given to us. The work around ‘emotional eating’ is to create an inner reservoir of self-love, which is yours alone, not dependent on other people or external factors. It takes time to fill