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10/14/2026

Overthinking can feel productive because technically your brain is doing something. You’re analyzing, replaying, preparing and trying to understand.

But eventually it’s worth asking whether all that thinking is actually producing any new information.

If you’ve replayed the same conversation twelve times and keep landing in exactly the same place, ask yourself whether there’s an action you genuinely want to take.

If there is, decide what that is.

If there isn’t, you might be allowed to let the conversation end, even if your brain would really prefer to schedule one more meeting about it. 😂

If your brain has a lot of these files open at once, the Closing Your Mental Tabs guide is free and linked in my bio.

Sometimes you eat past comfortable fullness. Thanksgiving is a pretty understandable time for that to happen.There’s lot...
10/13/2026

Sometimes you eat past comfortable fullness. Thanksgiving is a pretty understandable time for that to happen.

There’s lots of food, socializing and distractions, plus foods you may only have a few times a year.

Sometimes you want the pie even though you’re already fairly full because the pie is delicious. That is also part of eating.

The physical discomfort usually passes. What can keep the experience going much longer is deciding afterward that it means you lost control and now need to make up for it.

You can notice, “Okay, I ate more than felt good,” without turning tomorrow into a compensation project.

10/09/2026

If you’ve ever tried to “save calories” before a big meal and then wondered why you felt completely out of control once the food arrived, it’s worth looking at what happened earlier in the day.

Going into Thanksgiving dinner ravenous can make it considerably harder to notice hunger, fullness and satisfaction because your body has been waiting all day for you to feed it.

You don’t need to prepare for one larger meal by eating as little as possible beforehand, and you don’t need to compensate for it afterward either.

Have breakfast. Eat lunch. Have the snack if you’re hungry. Then go enjoy Thanksgiving dinner.

If food tends to take up more room in your head than you’d like around the holidays, I wrote about that on the blog. It’s linked in my bio.

10/06/2026

There’s something about being around family that can bring out a version of you that doesn’t seem to show up anywhere else.

You might be confident, independent and perfectly capable of making your own decisions, but suddenly you’re explaining why you made a certain career choice or trying to make sure nobody is annoyed at Thanksgiving dinner.

If that happens, get curious about the role you automatically step into. Are you keeping everyone happy? Avoiding conflict? Proving you’re doing well? Making sure nobody has to worry about you?

You don’t necessarily have to change the entire family dynamic this Thanksgiving. Just notice the job you keep volunteering for, and whether you actually want to keep doing it.

I wrote a bit more about family stress around the holidays on the blog. It’s linked in my bio if you want to keep thinking about this one before the long weekend.

09/29/2026

The “I already screwed it up, so I might as well keep going” feeling is VERY real.

But what exactly did you screw up?

You ate a cookie. Or chips. Or pizza. Somewhere along the way, your brain learned that eating certain foods means you’ve been “bad,” lost control, or ruined the day.

When eating becomes something you can succeed or fail at, it makes sense that one choice can quickly turn into “screw it, I’ll start again tomorrow.”

We’re much more interested in taking away the meaning and urgency around these foods, so eventually chips can just be chips.

Imagine that. 😂

Having structure around food isn’t a bad thing. In fact, for a lot of people, it’s really helpful.The question is what h...
09/26/2026

Having structure around food isn’t a bad thing. In fact, for a lot of people, it’s really helpful.

The question is what happens when life doesn’t follow the plan.

Can you eat earlier because you’re hungry? Have dessert even though you already had something sweet? Change dinner plans without feeling like you’ve messed something up?

Structure can make eating easier. It becomes a problem when those routines turn into rules you’re afraid to break.

We want food to fit into your life, rather than your life having to fit around food.

09/24/2026

A pattern I see all the time with pregnant clients is that the people who are usually the planners, researchers, and very “on top of things” people can find the uncertainty of pregnancy especially hard.

Your body is changing on its own timeline, your appetite and energy can feel unpredictable, and there can be a lot of waiting without really knowing what is happening in between appointments. When so much feels outside of your control, it makes sense that your attention starts looking for something it CAN control, whether that is food, weight, the number on the scale, or Googling the same question five times hoping the next answer will finally make you feel better. 🙃

This is part of why I created Is It Normal To Feel This Way?, a free guide that answers 12 common questions about food, body image, and control during pregnancy, along with practical ways to work with these thoughts when they show up.

If this sounds familiar, you can download the free guide through the link in our bio. 🤍

09/22/2026

If food takes up WAY more space in your brain than you want it to, your first instinct might be to try harder to control it.

But all those rules, negotiations and mental calculations around food can actually give your brain more reasons to keep paying attention to it.

When we work with food noise, we’re interested in what’s keeping food so important to your brain in the first place. Are you eating enough? Do you trust your hunger? Are certain foods still off-limits in your head, even if you technically “allow” yourself to eat them?

Because I don’t want you to spend the rest of your life winning arguments with yourself over a cookie. I want the cookie to become significantly less interesting. 😂

Maybe you ate out more this summer, had more drinks, travelled, skipped workouts, ate past fullness sometimes, or just a...
09/18/2026

Maybe you ate out more this summer, had more drinks, travelled, skipped workouts, ate past fullness sometimes, or just ate differently than you normally do.

And now your brain wants to fix it.

Eat less. Exercise more. Cut something out. Get “back on track.”

We’re more interested in what feels so uncomfortable about simply moving on.

What are you afraid will happen if you don’t compensate? What does eating “well” mean about you? What does eating “badly” mean? Why does more control feel like the solution?

Because when food carries this much meaning, September can quickly become another round of rules, guilt and trying harder.
Summer happened. You ate differently. Now you get to keep living your life without turning it into something you need to undo.

09/17/2026

Do you feel guilty when you’re not being productive?

You finally have nothing you HAVE to do, but instead of enjoying it, your brain immediately starts looking for the next thing you should be doing.

For a lot of high achievers, productivity becomes tied to feeling responsible, successful, or like you’re doing enough. So slowing down can actually feel uncomfortable.

That uncomfortable feeling when you slow down doesn’t mean you should be doing something. Sometimes you can let the laundry sit there, ignore the voice telling you to be productive, and enjoy your afternoon anyway. 😉

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