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.

09/06/2026

Willpower and discipline is all kind of like your basic, superficial way of looking at emotional eating or weight gain.

Usually there’s a lot of other factors that go into it.

If you keep outsourcing or looking for something on the outside to create the conditions for safety, for confidence, for security, you’re gonna end up in a situation where it just doesn’t work anymore and you haven’t really built a foundation.

That’s why this keeps happening. You’ve gotta build the foundation, and the foundation is often about understanding you and taking assessment of things around you that might influence your emotions and your behavior.

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You’re the one everyone calls when they need advice. You’re the one holding it together. You go out, you have a drink, m...
09/03/2026

You’re the one everyone calls when they need advice. You’re the one holding it together. You go out, you have a drink, maybe an appetizer. And then you get home at 9 PM and you’re going through every cabinet looking for the sweets and the leftovers.

In the morning you say today’s the day. You mean it every time.

A listener wrote in with almost exactly those words, and what Alana told her had nothing to do with the food in the cabinets. It had to do with the energy she’d already spent before she walked through the door.
That’s one of five real listener questions in this week’s Q&A, and every answer lands somewhere you don’t expect.

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09/03/2026

It’s not the food that has the power. It’s the energy imbalance that’s happening within you.

It’s the way that you’re giving and showing up outside in your life, and you’re not connected to the energy capacity and reserves that you actually have.

So you’re not able to regulate your energy in a way that would stop this from happening.

It’s almost like boundaries with yourself. I call it edge instead of a boundary when it’s related to ourselves. When you know your edges, you can take an action. You can make a choice that preserves the energy so you don’t find yourself in this crash when you get home.

That crash is more energetic than it is about food.

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09/01/2026

A mom I’m working with told me, with complete confidence, that food is never a big deal at her table now.

She doesn’t talk about rules. She doesn’t talk about labels. Everyone eats what they want.

And then she told me she waits until her kids go to bed to eat the things she actually wants.

Her kids may have never once heard her say “this food is bad.”

But they’ve seen her eat one way in front of them, and another way when she thinks no one is paying attention to her.

And kids notice that. They file it away as, oh, this is what eating looks like.

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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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