Julie M. Simon, MA, MBA, LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist and life coach with twenty-seven+ years of experience helping overeaters and imbalanced eaters stop dieting, and heal their relationships with themselves and their bodies, lose excess weight, and keep it off. A lifelong fitness enthusiast, she is also a certified personal trainer with over twenty-five years of experience designing exercise and nutrition programs for various populations. Julie Simon is also the founder and director of the popular Los Angeles-based Twelve-Week Emotional Eating Recovery Program, which offers an alternative to dieting by addressing the mind, body, and spirit imbalances underlying overeating. Her professional experience with and personal journey through childhood trauma, weight challenges, and body, brain, and spiritual imbalances led to the creation of the twelve-week program, which she has been running for twenty-five years.
In today’s episode of “The Food Junkies Podcast”
- Julie shares her personal and professional journey
- How she works with clients
- What is emotional eating and what it is NOT
- What drives emotional eating and if it is different from Food Addiction
- We talk about volum
- Soul-care practices and how they help slow down/stop emotional eating
- We talk about soothing without food and rewiring the brain
- The idea of Full Recovery
- Signature Question
