Starting Over with Shannon Jenkins

Ep.35 Overcoming emotional overeating & building a positive & healthy self-image w/ Jessi Jean

August 30, 2022 Shannon Jenkins
Starting Over with Shannon Jenkins
Ep.35 Overcoming emotional overeating & building a positive & healthy self-image w/ Jessi Jean
Show Notes

Do you emotionally overeat, struggle with binge eating or know someone who does? Do you constantly critique the way you look? Do you yo-yo diet and feel less-than free and content around food and in your body?

If so, this episode is definitely one for you! Today’s guest is certified mind body eating coach, Jessi Jean, who turned her own decade long struggle with food & body into her business and mission. Now she helps thousands of women all around the world end the fight with food using unique brain-based techniques so they can have a peaceful relationship with food & unshakeable confidence in their skin. 

On this episode we discuss Jessi’s own story recovering from an eating disorder, practical ways to regulate our nervous system, how we should be careful about the siloed virtual realities we can find ourselves living in through social media and so much more in the themes of healing, health and wellness.  

Here are a few of my favourite quotes from the episode:  

  •  “I refer to it as “the known zone” not the “comfort zone” because it's not comfortable to struggle with shame and guilt and impulsiveness with food, but it's known and we often will choose what's known over what's unfamiliar, even when it doesn’t serve us”. 
  • “Healing can be really exciting. I like to look at it as you're deciding what your future is instead of leaving it up to your automatic programming; it's like having a blank canvas and you're painting a new picture for the next chapter in the next season of your life.”
  • “Fear expands when we resist it. You'll be amazed that you can do things scared and that actually the antidote to fear is in action and leaning into it.”

I hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please rate, review and share with a friend! 

You can connect with Jessi and me on the links below: 

Shannon's instagram

Shannon's website

Shannon’s tiktok

Jessi's instagram

Jessi’s tiktok

Jessi’s food freedom program 

TED TALK How to Start a Movement 

Music by: Flood (Instrumental) by RYYZN https://soundcloud.com/ryyzn
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