How to Handle Triggering Comments About Your Body & Food During The Holidays

The holidays can be extremely triggering, especially when you're working on your relationship with food and your body. 

You might feel stressed going to family get-togethers because you expect certain people to make comments about your weight, food choices or have non-stop conversations about dieting.

Your stomach drops. Your face gets hot. You suddenly feel watched, judged, or like you have to defend yourself.

 Maybe it’s a “Should you be eating that?”

 Or “Did you gain weight?”

 Or “Wow, going back for seconds?”

In this episode, I'm going to walk you through different ways you can navigate those triggering comments and conversations, so that you can feel more confident around food, calmer in your body and more secure holding your boundaries - even when people around you don't get it.

Inside this episode, you’ll learn:

•  Why food and body comments from family trigger such a strong reaction
• The real reason it’s not actually about you (and what to remember in the moment)
• How generational diet culture programming shows up during the holidays
• The most common types of comments that activate food anxiety
• How to prepare before you walk into an event so you feel grounded
• What to actually say in the moment (scripts you can steal)
• How to self-regulate when your nervous system flips into fight, flight, or freeze
• Three ways to redirect, set boundaries, or remove yourself peacefully
• How to stop giving your power away and stay connected to yourself
• Strategies to prevent post-event overeating or bingeing triggered by stress
• Why building internal confidence shifts everything long-term

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