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058 - HER STORY - Surviving Sexual Assault With Alesha Apr 23, 2020

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Trigger Warning: In this episode, we may cover topics related to self-harm, rape, trauma, bi-polar disorder, eating disorders and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode!

No matter what you go through in life, there’s an opportunity for you to come out stronger on the other side. That’s what happened to the guest in this episode and FFM client, Alesha. Alesha has gone through a lot of trials and tribulations over the course of her life. She navigated the trauma of multiple rapes and sexual assaults and a mysterious illness that eventually led to her eating disorder. She and Jessi chat about her experience of being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and anxiety. Alesha shares her story of surviving a suicide attempt and the life-changing realization this brought her. She opens up about overcoming past traumas in therapy. Alesha also talks about how she found the FFM and got on the journey to recovery from her food and body struggles.

In this episode:

What triggered Alesha’s struggles with food and body
Thinking back on her first dieting experience in 5th grade
Desperately wanting to fit in and belong and the conflicting beliefs of her dieting experience
Alesha’s experience with falling ill and doctors not knowing what was wrong
How steroids catapulted her eating disorder into reality
How Alesha’s illness randomly went away
The mental health challenges that came when she overcame her illness
How the trauma affected Alesha through her high school experience
Being diagnosed with Bipolar 2 disorder and anxiety in college
Her experience with rape and being sexually assaulted
How what you’re doing or wearing isn’t a form of consent
Alesha’s memory of trying to end her life and being thankful that she survived
Her path to recovery and working through her layers of trauma
Setting powerful intentions to focus on her physical health
How Alesha got connected with Jessi and the FFM
How her relationship with food has transformed since joining the FFM
The supportive community and how it promotes healing
Why diversity is needed in your social groups
Where Alesha’s at right now with food and her body
Her biggest advice for someone who resonates with her story

Links:
Adult Chair Podcast Episode 153 - Binge Eating With Jessi Jean
Alesha’s Instagram
Rise with Me LIVE

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

057 - Why I’m Going to Couples Therapy Apr 22, 2020

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As a lot of you might know if you’re listeners of the podcast, Jessi and her husband Hung are no strangers to therapy. The two discussed their relationship back in Episode 044 and why they ended up getting a therapist. In this episode, Jessi talks about why she’s an advocate for having a therapist. She shares how a therapist has helped to strengthen their marriage. Jessi explores all of the reasons why getting a therapist might be a good idea for your relationship and the goals that she and Hung hope to accomplish through their therapy journey.

In this episode:

Her and Hung’s experience with their first therapist
Why a third party perspective will help set you up for greater success as a couple
How to present couples therapy to your partner
The reason they want to get back into couples therapy
How a good therapist will help to rid you of the wedges that drive relationships apart
What therapists will help you navigate and process
Their goals for getting back into therapy
How to sell your partner on the benefits of therapy

Links:
044 - Couples Q&A - The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

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You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

056 - HER STORY - How To Stop Numbing Your Feelings With Hana Apr 17, 2020

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Trigger Warning: In this episode, we may cover topics related to eating disorders, depression, self-harm and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode!

Have you ever realized that something from your childhood still affects you today? It’s not uncommon to hold onto things from childhood even well into your adult years. In this episode, Jessi chats with a client of the FFM, Hana. Hana’s struggles with food and her body started at four years old after she began to suppress her feelings. Suppressing feelings often leads to the use of other coping mechanisms and this is what happened with Hana. She shares how a broken relationship due to cheating confirmed her feelings of worthlessness (and further contributed to her struggles). Hana talks about how she finally decided to seek out help after 15+ years of struggling. She also talks about her experience in the course and finding great friendships with women from across the globe.

In this episode:

How her struggles with food and body started after suppressing her feelings as a child
How most parents are doing the best they can
Feeling unsupported and how a lack of boundaries led to people walking all over her
Struggling with depression as a teen
Her story of infidelity and how this confirmed her feelings of worthlessness
Losing a close friend and the toll the grief took on her
Coping mechanisms she used to numb from the weight of the pain
Her experience with therapy, trying to regain weight and overexercising
Why she got into fitness competing
Getting nervous system fatigue and being forced to rest
Believing that you can be free from food and body struggles
How Hana got connected with Jessi and the FFM
Her experience in the course and how her relationship with food and body has evolved
The friendships she’s made in the FFM
What’s been the most impactful part of the course for her
How her life has changed since recovering from her struggles with food and body
How she’s learned to sit in her feelings and embrace emotions

Links:
Rise With Me LIVE Morning Routine Challenge
Rise with Me LIVE Facebook Group

055 - How To Live In Your Fullest Expression with Anxiety Expert Stevie Wright Apr 16, 2020

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Is anxiety getting in the way of your life? If so, you’ll appreciate today’s episode with guest, Stevie Wright. Stevie is a former American Idol contestant and a self-love and breathwork coach. In this episode, Stevie and Jessi talk about how she recovered from her own traumas. Stevie talks about how she learned to step into her queendom. She shares her process of helping clients move through their anxiety. Stevie and Jessi touch on being compassionate toward your inner child and reaching your fullest expression.

In this episode:

What got Stevie to the place she’s at now
Her experience of being on American Idol and how traumatizing it was for her
The difference between identification and observation
Stepping into your queendom
How your brain is wired for survival and how this causes anxiety
Developing the skill of switching into different realities
Her process for helping clients through anxiety
Learning to not put yourself in a box
How Stevie lives a fully expressed life and helps others practice that
Having compassion for her inner child
Her advice for someone who wants to become more fully expressed
Using anxiety as your friend and changing the story behind the emotion

Links:

Stevie’s Website

Stevie’s Instagram

054 - HER STORY - How She Overcame a 33 Year Battle with Food in 9 Months with Cristina Apr 09, 2020

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Struggling with food and your body for one year, 5 years and even a decade is far too long. Today Jessi is speaking with a FFM client who has dealt with the struggles of food and her body for most of her life. After a 33 year-long battle, Cristina discovered Jessi and the FFM and decided to give it a try. In this episode, Cristina and Jessi talk about Cristina’s journey to recovery and how much her life has changed since pursuing healing. They explore how she learned to feel her feelings, the biggest fears she had to overcome in her journey and her advice for other women who are considering taking the plunge to start their own journey to healing.

In this episode:

What her struggles with food and body looked like before discovering the FFM
Growing up with a house in diet culture
Her experience in middle school of realizing her body was different and starting the cycle with restricting and binging
How Cristina found Jessi through a podcast and decided to work with her
Her biggest fears when starting the course and learning to let go of dieting completely
The differences that Cristina noticed when she began the course
Releasing the pressure in whatever way works best for you
Why you need to feel safe on the journey to healing
Learning to feel her feelings on the recovery journey
Getting herself to commit to using and implementing the tools
The light bulb moment she got when she learned about the weight set point theory
Finding out she could do whatever she wanted after limiting herself for most of her life
How the course has transformed her life and relationships for the better
What she’d tell other women who are considering taking the journey of recovery
Why the support of everyone in the FFM helps you conquer the struggle with food and body

Links:Adult Chair Podcast Episode 153 - Binge Eating With Jessi Jean

053 - Navigating Weight Gain During Quarantine Apr 07, 2020

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A lot of people are nervous about gaining weight during the quarantine. Over the past few weeks, there have been jokes and memes all over social media about the “quarantine 15”. Today Jessi dives into how to navigate weight gain and shifts during the quarantine and how to find peace in the midst of chaos. She shares her tips for putting success on autopilot with positive affirmations and why keeping structure to your day will help you during this time. She explores how to debunk your fears around weight gain and why you need to remember that your body is just your earth suit (and you’re SO much more than what you look like on the outside).

In this episode:

How to cope with weight gain in an ever changing body
How trying to create control makes us spiral out of control even more
What Jessi does to feel safer, grounded and more joyous throughout the days
Keeping structure in your day with a morning routine
Reminding yourself that you’re so much more than your body
Committing yourself to get time outside to soak up a daily dose of vitamin D
Debunking your fears around weight gain
Accepting that your body is your earth suit and learning to be confident in your ever changing, aging self
Taking control of your thoughts and overcoming the self-sabotaging thought cycles by replacing them with positive affirmations

052 - HER STORY - Overcoming Drugs, Alcohol, Adderall & Anorexia With Lisa Apr 02, 2020

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Trigger Warning: In this episode, we cover topics related to eating disorders, alcohol, drugs and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode!

Like so many people, Lisa’s struggles with food and her body started at a young age. She remembers growing up and how a well-intentioned comment caused her to begin the cycles of restricting food. In this episode, Jessi and Lisa discuss Lisa’s experience with navigating through this from late childhood, into her teen years, through college and beyond. They talk about how she fell into using drugs like Adderall to give herself more control over restricting food, her struggle with Anorexia and the cycles of binging and restricting. Lisa shares how her life and relationships were impacted by this and how she found Jessi and the FFM. She tells her experience of joining the course, how her body image has shifted and how her relationship with food and her body has changed for the better.

In this episode:

What prompted her struggles with food and body
Finding herself slowly gaining weight
Starting the cycle of attempting to restrict her eating
Realizing that food was way more than a physical sensation for her and feeling controlled by food
Trying to find herself in college and dealing with an eating disorder
Using Adderall to help herself restrict food
The cycles of binging and restricting from food
How connecting to faith helped her to get on a better path
The reality of how what she was doing was affecting her health
Knowing that something had to change
Not letting her husband in on her struggles
How she found the FFM and her fears about joining
The impact of the community aspect in the course
What happened in her relationship with food after joining the FFM
How her breakthroughs have come incrementally through the course
Where Lisa sees herself going from here and how she feels about her body image
Why she decided to commit to the Rise with Me Live event
What mountain top living means to Lisa

Links:

**Update** We now offer something EVEN better then the Morning Routine Challenge. Sign up for Jessi’s VIP email list to receive exclusive content: PDF’s, tips, videos & more all designed to bring you closer to mental freedom with food! Click here to sign up!

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Click here to learn more information about The Food Freedom Online Program.

051 - A Podcast for Your Loved Ones Mar 31, 2020

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If you’re listening to this episode, it might be because your loved one is suffering from issues with food and body. This episode is geared toward those who are trying to support someone in the midst of their recovery journey (or even someone who is considering taking the first steps). In this episode, Jessi shares what the struggle with food and body looks like, how our brain and neural pathways are affected by it and why it’s not an issue of willpower. She shares everything from how triggers can cause you to relapse, what the healing process will look like and how you can best support someone during their journey to healing.

In this episode:

How the struggle with food and body works
What the patterns of a struggle of food and body might look like
The inner dialogue that many people struggle with
How triggers can cause you to relapse and how your brain stores things as coping mechanisms
Why it’s not a willpower issue and how the struggle is similar to any addiction such as addiction to alcohol, pornography, etc.
The high that comes from eating for binge eaters, overeaters or emotional eaters
The mental energy that comes from making decisions with food
What the FFM does to help women retrain their thinking and help them overcome their struggles with food and body
What the healing process looks like
How it takes time to find balance during recovery
What you can do to best support someone in the process of healing
Why comments from loved ones can be triggering during the recovery process (even well-intentioned ones)
Learning to hold space and affirm loved ones for being emotional without the need to try to fix
A powerful question you can ask your loved ones when they’re opening up to you
How Jessi and her team audit incoming FFM clients to make sure they’re a good fit and will get the support they need

Sign for Jessi’s VIP email list here where she will share exclusive content: www.jessijean.com/VIP *You don’t want to miss the 1st email which includes an EPIC workbook guide for alll my visual gals on Nervous System Regulation!

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Click here to learn more information about The Food Freedom Online Program.

050 - HER STORY - I’m Scared To Eat With Hanna Mar 26, 2020

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Trigger Warning: In this episode, we cover topics related to eating disorders and other mental health challenges. While we do talk about issues relating to food and body, some episodes may be more emotionally challenging or difficult and may make you uncomfortable. If the podcast feels triggering in any way, please turn it off and get the appropriate help. Remember, I am not a doctor, but an eating recovery coach. Enjoy the episode!

Have you ever felt scared to eat? Maybe you weren’t sure if you were eating the right food or the right amount and that feeling brought on a lot of anxiety. Today Jessi was joined by a client of the FFM, Hanna, to talk about her journey of recovery. Hanna started recognizing her struggles with food and body at a very young age and found herself being very controlling about food choices to the point where she was scared to eat. In this episode, Jessi and Hanna talk about her struggles and how dealing with this has robbed her of so many joyous life experiences and moments. They talk about how Hanna found FFM, the breaking point where she knew something needed to change and her advice for someone who’s in the depths of a struggle with food and their body.

In this episode:

Her first memories about food and body and how this impacted her
Becoming more controlling of her food as a young child
Feeling guilty about eating junk food growing up
Her first experience with learning about binge eating
Realizing that other people weren’t scared to eat like she was
Her experiences with binging and purging
Reflecting on what God wanted her to learn from her struggles
Telling the people closest to her about her struggles with food and body
How things got worse after finishing college
The breaking point where she reached out for help after having her own children
How she found the FFM and started working with Jessi
What happened that rebuilt Hanna’s belief in being able to recover
The relief she’s felt from being able to enjoy life fully
Her advice for someone in the depths of a struggle with food and body
What her life looks like now and how things are different for her

Remember to sign for Jessi’s VIP email list here where she will share exclusive content: www.jessijean.com/VIP *You don’t want to miss the 1st email which includes an EPIC workbook guide for alll my visual gals on Nervous System Regulation!

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Head to: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

049 - COVID-19: Tips for Staying Sane Mar 25, 2020

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Right now there’s so much uncertainty and fear. It feels like everywhere we turn there’s more news about the Coronavirus and we don’t know what will happen next. As we all practice social distancing, many people are feeling uneasy about the current state of the world. In this episode, Jessi shares a few tips for how to stay sane during social distancing. She talks about using this time to slow down, rest, reflect and ultimately spend time with those in your immediate family. She makes suggestions for connecting with friends via video chats and getting your body moving. She also discusses why you should maintain a routine as much as possible even when working from home (and shares a thank you for all of the people who are working right now to help hold together our world).

In this episode:

How conscious breaths can help you to regulate your nervous system and get grounded
A thank you for everyone holding together our world right now
Releasing from trying to plan the future
Enjoying the present moment
Why you need to maintain a routine as much as you can
Avoiding the news first thing in the morning and taking it in in small doses
How our tendency for control can cause us to spiral out of control
Using this time to slow down, rest, reflect and spend time with family
Making it a point to get connected with people
Jessi’s tips for avoiding cabin fever
Get outside and get some vitamin d
Moving your body in whatever way makes you happy
Allowing herself to move slower and not accomplish as much
Feeling into your body and practicing coping difficult emotions without numbing out
Getting aware of the things you think about on a daily basis and coming up with a replacement thought
Why you should keep getting ready even if you’re working from home
Journaling about what makes you feel safe and grounded
Shifting your focus outward and helping those who need support
Making your home a sanctuary

Links:

Update** We now offer something EVEN better than the Morning Routine Challenge. Sign up for Jessi’s VIP email list to receive exclusive content: PDF’s, tips, videos & more all designed to bring you closer to mental freedom with food! Click here to sign up!

Are you ready to end the fight with food once and for all? Book your free strategy call to see if The Food Freedom Online Program is a good fit for you: www.foodfreedomonlineprogram.com

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