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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.

10/25/2026

Some of these mindset blocks are just FOMO, or people pleasing.

There's a party, so I have to eat this way. There's a vacation, so that's vacation eating.

And then there's the big one. Week versus weekend.

This is how I eat Monday through Friday. Then Friday night hits and I'm gonna let my flag fly. It's the weekend. Let it all go.

We say these like they're facts about us. They're not. They're blocks.

And they've decided how the whole weekend goes before you've made a single choice.

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A client of mine goes hiking with her family most weekends. Afterward they all end up at the same diner, and she orders ...
10/22/2026

A client of mine goes hiking with her family most weekends. Afterward they all end up at the same diner, and she orders the greasiest thing on the menu, the platter, the sandwich, whatever's heaviest. She gets back in the car feeling like garbage, and that feeling shapes how she eats for the rest of the day.

When I asked her why, she didn't say she was hungry. She said, "This is what we do when we go on a hike."

That's a mindset block. And it sounds so much like a fact that it never gets questioned.

You've got your own versions of it. This is how I eat on vacation. It's the weekend, so… I burned 600 calories this morning, so I can have this one. They feel like preferences but really they're closer to rules.

The new episode is about how to actually see them, and why that's the uncomfortable part.

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10/22/2026

It took me a long time to get here, but food is neutral. It isn't good and it isn't bad.
Food was never the part that needed fixing.

Food is a substance. Eating is an experience. Those are two different things, and most of us have been treating them like one.

And the experience of eating is the one we learned to lean on. Not as adults. As babies. We cried, we got the bottle.

So by the time you're grown and standing in the kitchen at nine at night, you're not doing something new. You're doing the oldest thing you know.

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10/20/2026

Essentially emotional eating is the action of using food to fix discomfort.

Or sometimes it's mindless.
We emotionally eat and we don't even understand why.

You're standing there. The wrapper's already open. You don't remember deciding anything.

So we kind of just retrospectively look back and we're like, "Yes, that was emotional eating."
"Wow, I just binge ate."

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10/18/2026

We spend our time scrolling through social media.
Binge-watching the latest TV shows.

And we really train ourselves.
We almost get addicted to this constant sensation.
We sort of become like sensation junkies almost.

And when we're consistently metabolizing that sensation from the outside world, we really get left feeling depleted.

Not tired the way a long day makes you tired. Emptier than that.

And that depletion takes the form of overwhelm.
Disconnection.
Emotional exhaustion.

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I've been practicing yoga since the late '90s.There's a point in a long hold where the sensation builds. The front leg s...
10/15/2026

I've been practicing yoga since the late '90s.

There's a point in a long hold where the sensation builds. The front leg starts shaking. And everything in you wants to quit the pose.

The whole practice is learning that you don't have to.

You stay in the pose. You breathe. And the sensation goes somewhere on its own, without you doing anything about it.

It took me years to connect that to my food habits.

Because it's the same moment that happens at nine o'clock in your kitchen.

Something builds all day. The texts you answered between meetings. The scrolling you did while you were half listening to someone. The commute home.

None of it disappears when the day ends. It sits in your body. And by night it feels like it has to go somewhere.

So it goes into food. You open the cabinet you already opened twenty minutes ago. You're not hungry and you know you're not hungry.

We think the food is the temptation. Most of the time it isn't.

That's what I'm breaking down in today's episode of Emotional Eating Unwrapped.

10/15/2026

We think the food is the temptation.

A lot of times it's not.

Especially when it comes to emotional eating.

It's usually the environment.

It's the energy we're metabolizing.

The room you walked into. The conversation you had before it. What you were carrying when you opened the cabinet.

That's the trigger.

That's where our system needs to turn to food to relax.

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10/13/2026

Healing a dysregulated nervous system does not mean you will never get dysregulated again.

It just means that you notice that you are dysregulated, you have the tools to regulate yourself, and you more quickly and efficiently can get yourself back into rest and digest.

Never being dysregulated is likely never going to happen, as long as we are living our lives.

We are trying to find a way to regulate, and to feel confident that we can regulate ourselves efficiently.

That is one of the biggest anchors that I instill and install with my own clients when I am supporting them in healing their relationship with food.

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10/11/2026

Anxiety. Irritability. Edginess.

That is usually what is there first, before you start to overeat.

And what your fight or flight mechanism is going to want you to do is find a coping mechanism to deal with it. That is how emotional eating plays a part here. Emotional eating often is that coping mechanism, especially if you are listening to this podcast, that you go to when you feel dysregulated.

So instead of getting caught up in the coping mechanism, and then how we feel about ourselves afterwards, we can interrupt ourselves earlier.

Right when we start to feel anxious or irritable, we can stop and say: "Wow, my nervous system is probably dysregulated. What trigger in my life is happening around me right now that might be causing that?"

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You are not failing because you reach for food when you are stressed.The urge often starts before you are standing in th...
10/08/2026

You are not failing because you reach for food when you are stressed.

The urge often starts before you are standing in the kitchen.

You feel anxious. Irritable. Edgy. Overwhelmed. Maybe you cannot even explain what is wrong. Your nervous system is activated, your body wants relief, and it starts looking for something that has helped soothe that feeling before.

For a lot of women, that something is food.

And then we make the mistake of focusing on the eating. We tell ourselves to have more discipline, more control, more willpower.

But the opening to change the pattern happens earlier.

It is the moment you notice the feeling and pause before automatically responding to it.

That space between "I feel this" and "I need to eat" is a skill you can actually build.

In this week’s episode of Emotional Eating Unwrapped, I am breaking down how nervous system dysregulation can lead to emotional eating, how to recognize when it is happening, and what you can do before food becomes the coping mechanism.

The goal is not to never feel dysregulated.

It is to notice it sooner and know how to support yourself when you do.

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