In this episode, Meg shares how she was diagnosed with anorexia at just 13 years old, and spent the next 16 years in and out of treatment before finally reaching full recovery in her late twenties.

You'll hear Meg talk candidly about what it was like to be a dangerously underweight teenager caught in a cycle of perfectionism and control.

Meg describes what treatment actually looked like for her, and the gap she found between learning coping tools in a clinical setting and applying them in real life.

You'll also hear how her eating disorder evolved into emotional eating in her early twenties, with cycles of bingeing and restricting, and the moment on her living room couch that finally pushed her to seek a different kind of recovery.

If you've ever turned to food to cope with anxiety, boredom, sadness, or even excitement, you'll relate to so much of what Meg shares.

Meg finally found freedom through her concept of the "seven bodies", and she explains how emotional eating often comes from trying to fill the wrong kind of empty.

We also talk about intuitive eating, and how it's possible to eat "whatever you want, whenever you want" including choosing not to eat sugar, flour, or other foods that don't make your body feel good.

Find Meg here.

To get personalized guidance to stop emotional eating and break free from sugar cravings, plus support and accountability... join the 90-day program, Freedom from Cravings Formula TODAY.

For step-by-step guidance toward freedom from cravings, get your copy of my new book: "Break Free from Sugar Cravings". Available on Amazon now!

For free resources, Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings!

Download your 5 tips HERE to discover how you can get rid of cravings... even when you feel tired or stressed.

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What if the thing standing between you and your "life after sugar" isn't sugar at all?

What if it's the way you think?

In this episode, you'll learn about a trap so many women fall into: a habit of overcomplicating things until failure feels inevitable.

You know the pattern.

You set an impossible rule, break it by lunchtime, throw in the towel, and reach for the sugar because... well, you already "messed up."

You'll also find out why a sugar-free life may be perceived as being complicated, when the truth is the opposite.

It's the processed food industry that's selling you convenience, but you're paying for it later in energy crashes, brain fog, and blood sugar spikes that leave you hungry minutes after eating.

So in this episode you'll get some time-saving strategies to simplify food prep.

You'll also hear a real clip from a coaching call with one of my Freedom from Cravings Formula clients about how she's learning to make her life much simpler... and how you can too.

To get personalized guidance to stop emotional eating and break free from sugar cravings, plus support and accountability... join the 90-day program, Freedom from Cravings Formula TODAY.

For step-by-step guidance toward freedom from cravings, get your copy of my new book: "Break Free from Sugar Cravings". Available on Amazon now!

For free resources, Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings!

Download your 5 tips HERE to discover how you can get rid of cravings... even when you feel tired or stressed.

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Cassandra grew up on a classic American diet, sugar included.

It wasn't until her 20s that she started noticing the connection between what she was eating and how she was feeling. As someone with ADHD, the moment she cut out sugar and experienced real mental clarity for the first time, there was no going back.

In this episode, Cassandra explains what mindful eating is: It means bringing awareness to what you eat, how you eat it, and how it makes you feel.

We talk about why North American food culture works against us, how to set yourself up for healthier choices without overhauling your entire life, and why developing mindful eating habits is more powerful than any food or diet rule.

Today Cassandra is a mindful eating coach and author of The Mindful Table.

Find Cassandra here.

To get personalized guidance to stop emotional eating and break free from sugar cravings, plus support and accountability... join the 90-day program, Freedom from Cravings Formula TODAY.

For step-by-step guidance toward freedom from cravings, get your copy of my new book: "Break Free from Sugar Cravings". Available on Amazon now!

For free resources, Do the Cravings Quiz and take the first step to get rid of your cravings!

Download your 5 tips HERE to discover how you can get rid of cravings... even when you feel tired or stressed.

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