06/10/2025
Yesterday, I had a call with a coach who told me,
“I don’t think I can join the Emotional Eating Coaching Academy… I’ve never struggled with food like my clients do.”
I want to share what I told her because it might help you too.
We need all kinds of coaches in this work.
We need coaches who have lived through binge eating and emotional eating themselves.
And we need coaches who haven’t.
Because your value isn’t based on your body, your past, or your relationship with food.
It’s based on your ability to see what others can’t.
When I first started recovery, I could never have worked with a coach who looked like me back then.
I was over 500lbs, ashamed, and angry at my reflection.
I thought people who hadn’t lived it could never understand.
But one of my early mentors hadn’t been through it.
She wasn’t an emotional eater.
She wasn’t living in a larger body.
She was calm, grounded, and she didn’t judge me.
She helped me stop fighting food long enough to start listening to it.
She showed me how to feel safe in my own body.
And she gave me permission to believe that I wasn’t broken, I was just stuck in a cycle that made sense once I understood it.
That experience changed everything for me.
It proved that skill, empathy, and emotional safety matter more than shared experience.
That’s what I teach inside the 𝗘𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆 𝟯.𝟬.
You don’t need to have “been there” to guide a client through it.
You just need the right tools to hold the space safely.
We go beyond nutrition and willpower.
You’ll learn:
• How to recognise emotional and disordered eating patterns.
• How to coach through shame, guilt, and all-or-nothing thinking.
• How to help clients rebuild trust with food without falling into diet culture.
• How to support clients coming off GLP-1 meds who’ve lost their “food noise” control.
Whether you’re a PT, a online coach, or a wellness professional this work belongs to you too.
And your clients need it more than ever.
If you’d like to explore whether the Academy is right for you, let’s book a call.
We’ll go through how it works, what’s inside, and how it can fit into your existing coaching model.
Reply “EECA” and I’ll send you all the details.