Be Well by Alana Kessler

Be Well by Alana Kessler Becoming You. A Natural Unfolding of Balance and Equanimity Through Nutrition, Yoga and Inner Welln Be Well.

By Alana Kessler, a Holistic Health Coach in New York City works to integrate your mind & body to receive, incorporate & transform intrinsic & extrinsic information supporting the evolution of day to day living. Holistic Health through Alana's unique Method Mapping technique & The BE WELL ARC System balances wellness with Nutrition & Yoga to refine your health & find your best, most complete self.

08/30/2026

The better question to ask yourself isn’t what you said.

It’s: what has my child watched happen around food?

What have they seen me behaviorally, energetically, non-verbally do?

Because your child is paying attention either way.

A lot of parents assume the kid at the table is locked in on the food. She’s not. She’s watching how you’re behaving and relating and reacting toward it.

Words matter. I’m not saying they don’t.

I just don’t think they’re the most important vehicle for the lesson.

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You never meant to pass down these food rules. But she was watching.Not from anything you ever said directly to her but ...
08/27/2026

You never meant to pass down these food rules. But she was watching.

Not from anything you ever said directly to her but from learned behavior she watched you do.

You said "I skipped lunch today," like it was something to be proud of.

You said "That mom really let herself go," quietly about a stranger to your partner. Now your daughter knows how to judge a body before anyone can judge hers first.

You said "I'm not really hungry," at the table while everyone's watching. Then you waited until everyone went to sleep and snacked in the kitchen.

You never criticized her body, or put labels on certain food but kids are going to file this information for a later date when they are thinking about their own rules around food.

In this week's episode of Emotional Eating Unwrapped I get into why watching your words might not be enough, because she's not learning from your vocabulary, she's learning from what she sees you believe about yourself.

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08/27/2026

Before a child has language for calories, for dieting, for body image, for restriction, for any of that stuff, they can still feel the energy someone has around food. And around their bodies.

They get so much information from a parent’s reaction toward a piece of cake or the way we talk about food.

Even if we think we are good at hiding our reactions.

Kids may not understand and have the vocabulary for this kind of behavior yet, but they will remember it for a very long time.

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08/25/2026

There's usually a moment at Thanksgiving where someone says, "Oh my God, I can't eat another bite. I'm done."

And everyone agrees. And the meal is over.

It's one of the only meals all year that gets to be a full event. Start to finish.

And here's the strange part, it's the meal where people eat the most, and it's the one that actually feels like enough.

People push back from the table, undo the top button of their jeans, and go, "I feel gross and overfull… but I feel done."

Nobody is circling the kitchen an hour later.

The rest of the year? We eat while driving. While answering emails. While waiting for a meeting to start.

No real beginning. No real end.

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08/23/2026

Some women eat until they are completely full and still feel like something is missing.

I hear this all the time.

And then there are women who eat half of what they normally would, put the fork down, and feel completely satisfied.

That second one is what a lot of people mean when they say they want to eat "like a normal person."

That inner knowing. Being able to enjoy something, and then stop when you're finished.

We usually say we want to stop when we're full.

But I don't think full is actually the thing we're after.

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You ate. You were full. And twenty minutes later you were back in the kitchen looking for something else — not because y...
08/20/2026

You ate. You were full. And twenty minutes later you were back in the kitchen looking for something else — not because you were still hungry, but because something didn't feel finished.

I see this constantly. One woman eats until she is completely full and still feels like something is missing. Another one puts her fork down halfway through her plate and feels totally done. The food doesn't explain the difference.

In this week's episode of Emotional Eating Unwrapped, I break down the difference between fullness and satisfaction — two signals we treat like they're the same, and why reaching for more food never closes the gap between them.

If you've ever finished a meal and thought "why am I still not satisfied?" — this one is for you.

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08/20/2026

An unanswered text sitting in your phone will bother you way more than one you already replied to.

A show you stopped halfway through will stick in your head longer than one you actually watched to the end.

You're still holding onto it. The potential of it. What was going to happen.
Your brain holds onto the things that don't get closed, and it lets go of the things that actually did.

And eating? Eating is no different.

A meal that gets interrupted. Eaten in front of a screen. Eaten while you're doing something else.

Something in you doesn't register it as done.

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08/18/2026

So many people want to feel normal around food. They want to enjoy it.

But they're so fearful of the desire they have, and the pleasure they're going to feel eating it, because of all the stories that come in about the dangerous things that might happen.

And I think there's an identity loss in it too.

So many people want to be someone who can have fun, but then you have to let go of the identity of the person who doesn't have fun.

I remember this clear as day. When I said to myself, I'm not going to be that person anymore who goes to the party and just says, I don't want to do this, I don't want to do that.

I have to focus on what I actually want to be. What I want to do. The energy I'm looking to create.
I can't be defined by not being this for the rest of my life.

Instead: I am this. This is what I like. This is how I feel. This is what I want. And I need to go out and create that.
But there's a certain level of vulnerability in admitting that. And then putting yourself out there, where you could get rejected, and feel all of those things, instead of just bitterness.

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08/16/2026

When people go to a party, there's usually something they're hoping to feel there.

And in our culture there are substances at the party, and we get misdirected into focusing on those.
You're not going to the party to consume a substance. You're going to have an experience. The substance will be there, but there are layers and levers you can pull around that piece, depending on what's right for you where you are.

Because a lot of times people go to a party and feel like they have no power over the food or the drink. Like it's there, I have to have it.

That's not true though.

It's there. You might feel a desire for it. But then you get to ask yourself, is this in service of my higher self, my vision for health?

I work on vision a lot with people, and it isn't "I want to lose 30 pounds." It's a whole ecosystem of envisioning a better life.

You'll feel all kinds of pulls. But where you make your decisions from is your vision.

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08/13/2026

When you can start to view food noise as a messenger, rather than something that's going to overpower you.

That's a different thing.

Because when you feel in control of a stimulation, an emotion, that's arising in you, it's not about needing to remove it.

It's about riding the wave of it. Being in the driver's seat of it.

That ability to be with the heat. The heat that comes up in you.

That's honestly my biggest thing these days. Letting myself just feel all that crazy energy that's coming. That compulsive energy to act, or to get mad at somebody, or to be self-righteous about something.

And then going, no. This is just an emotion.

This is very uncomfortable. This is creating a lot of energy in me.

But acting would not be the right thing right now.

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