The Skill You Need in Order to Trust Your Intuition Around Eating

I have a transformational program for ambitious, creative, successful women that want to feel free from emotional eating and the scale, and feel good in their body.

Women are naturally “intuitive” so intuitive eating seems like a no-brainer.

And yet, food and her body feel like a battle to be won even when she is “eating what she likes”.

She hears that she *knows* the next best step- and she probably does- but trusting herself to take it feels totally wobbly.

So she looks to the newest trends in health magazines, doctors, and TV shows hoping to find “the answer” to why her body isn’t responding the way she’d like.

The piece that's missing, keeping Intuitive Eating principles from "working" for her, is her feeling she can trust her intuition.

What she needs is the support of masculine energy- the steady, consistent, disciplined energy she applies in other areas of her life- on the inside.

For many women, their masculine energy is pointed out into the world, helping other people, learning, making her good at her job, using her spare time to volunteer in the community, etc.

These are all amazing ways her masculine serves those around her.

She learned this from an early age and the thought of not doing these things feels “selfish”.

But when a woman’s masculine energy is directed outside of her, her feminine energy will be left trying to “pick up the slack” in getting her needs met.

This logical part of her will also be looking for her questions outside of her as well.

Since she is so principled and hard-working, the safest way to find comfort and relief will continue to be food.

When a woman applies her masculine energy to her health, she will usually “squeeze in” time for an intense exercise and invest in a new diet to help her lose weight.

But what she finds instead is that she is discouraged when the scale doesn’t move even after all her hard work.

However, when her own masculine energy turns inward, supporting her in getting her internal needs met, she will use it to allow her space in her schedule for the things that fill up her tank.

Instead of being vulnerable to putting her own wellbeing behind what everyone else needs from her, she will allow herself to be vulnerable in expressing the support she needs…. And getting it.

Until a woman is able to receive support, actively, from the masculine (her own or others’) it will be difficult for her to feel truly nourished.

Like eating rice cakes versus vegetables, it will fill the space but not provide the vital nutrients to thrive.

When she focuses on allowing her feminine energy to receive support and lead the process, living in (and working with) a female body will intuitively make more sense.

She will be able to *hear* what she needs and feel empowered to take action to support it.

This means instead of “pushing through” her lack of sleep with more coffee and exercise, she will take a nap.

Or instead of running on overdrive in her community, she will say yes to projects that allow her to serve deeper instead of being spread so thin.

The things that are nourishing for her are unique to her, like her preferences in food.

This is why, equally important to what she consumes from the outside, a woman needs to “diet” from the inside out so that she will be able to support the results she wants long term.

This inside-out approach to health is counterintuitive and exactly what we explore in my group program, Nourished.

Learn to recognize masculine and feminine energy within yourself and others to create balance and support with ease outside and internally.

Heal the relationship with the scale, plateaus, and hunger so that you can navigate health with more clarity and less resistance.

Balancing and supporting your masculine and feminine energies to create a healthy internal environment so that you can move toward physical wellbeing with more integrity.

Soothing the inner child- the one that usually creates the most drama when it comes to food, especially “treats”.

Bonus: strategies to support meal planning for your family instead of cooking multiple meals, how to communicate your goals to enroll your family’s support, and mindful eating.

If Nourished feels like the next step for you, head over to the packages page for self-study link or, if you’re hoping for more 1:1 support to address more complex or deeper emotions, send me an email (CSchandNutrition@gmail.com) to let me know what you’re needing and together we will lay our a plan that gets you started right away.