What if the biggest obstacles to lasting weight loss aren’t physical at all... but emotional patterns hidden deep in the subconscious mind?
In Part Three of the Close Your Eyes, Lose Weight series, we move even deeper, into the emotional and unconscious habits that often quietly sabotage our best intentions. Grace walks you through Weeks 5 to 8 of the proven 12-week protocol, helping you recognize and release the emotional blocks that can keep you stuck.
We’ll explore why emotional eating is never really about the food, how to heal the cycle of using food to cope with emotions like boredom, sadness, and stress, and why true resilience comes from feeling your feelings rather than numbing them.
You’ll also learn how boredom eating develops, why it’s so tempting, and three powerful antidotes to replace it with nourishing, joy-filled habits. Plus, Grace reveals how using food as a reward is a subconscious pattern learned early in life, and how to create healthier, more empowering ways to celebrate your wins.
This episode isn’t about willpower or restriction. It’s about compassionately understanding yourself at the root level, healing emotional triggers, and building a life where food supports your freedom, not your frustration.
Whether you're at the beginning of your transformation or peeling back new layers, this conversation will help you reconnect with your emotional wisdom, build healthier coping mechanisms, and retrain your subconscious to work for you, not against you.
00:00 Welcome and Setting the Intention
00:35 The Deeper Work: Emotional Eating and Subconscious Blocks
02:05 Healing Emotional Eating at the Root
04:15 Learning to Feel Without Numbing: Emotional Resilience
06:20 Breaking the Cycle: Eating When Bored
08:55 Three Antidotes to Mindless Eating
11:30 Reclaiming Your Time and Energy
14:10 Food as a Reward: Childhood Patterns and Adult Habits
16:45 How to Celebrate Yourself Without Sabotage
19:50 Hypnosis Tools to Heal Emotional and Reward-Based Eating
22:30 Wrapping Up and Your Next Steps
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