Release + Reclaim
A 12-Week Trauma-Informed Therapy Journey for Emotional Eating and Binge Cycles
Healing what’s actually driving your relationship with food
If this were about discipline, you would have solved it by now.
You’re not new to this.
You know what to eat.
You know what you “should” do.
You’ve tried being good.
Starting again.
Resetting.
Fixing it.
And yet, when you’re overwhelmed, stretched thin, or emotionally done,
food still takes over.
Not because you’re weak.
Not because you lack willpower.
But because something in you learned to cope this way a long time ago.
This isn’t a food problem.
It’s a pattern.
A predictable, nervous-system-driven pattern that kicks in when you’re carrying too much, giving too much, or holding it together for everyone else.
And until that pattern is healed at the root,
no amount of insight, tracking, or self-control will make it stop.
You’re smart.
You’re self-aware.
You’re capable.
But your relationship with food feels like the one place where logic doesn’t work.
Because this part of you doesn’t respond to logic.
It responds to safety.
And that’s exactly what this work is designed to create.
Is this what your relationship with food actually feels like?
→ You eat “clean” all day, then binge at night and don’t understand how it happened.
→ You tell yourself you’ll just have a few bites, and suddenly something else takes over.
→ You eat when you’re not hungry because you’re stressed, overwhelmed, or emotionally done.
→ You hide food or eat in secret because you’re ashamed and don’t want anyone to see.
→ You promise yourself you’ll start again tomorrow. Or Monday. Or when you feel more in control.
→ You overthink food all day and still feel out of control around it.
→ You sabotage your eating every time you try to “be good.”
→ You hold it together for everyone else, then cave and go straight for the food at night.
→ You say yes when you mean no, over-give when you’re already depleted, and eat to cope.
→ You feel stuck in a loop you can’t get out of, no matter how much you understand it.
If this is you, it’s not because you’re broken.
It’s because your nervous system learned a pattern that food now runs automatically.
And insight alone can’t turn it off.
The next step
If this resonates and you feel ready to explore deeper work around emotional eating, you can book a Release & Reclaim Consultation.
A trauma-informed orientation and fit session for emotional eating.
How Release + Reclaim actually works
Release & Reclaim is a 12-week private one-on-one trauma-informed therapy journey for women who want to heal emotional eating and binge cycles at the root.
This is not a rigid program you have to fit yourself into.
It is a personalised healing process that adapts to your internal system.
We work with the specific parts and trauma patterns driving your emotional eating and stress-fuelled behaviours, in the order your nervous system actually needs.
Using Internal Family Systems therapy and trauma-informed integration, we meet the protective parts of you that learned to use food to cope.
Not to get rid of them.
But to understand them, soften them, and release the pressure they’ve been carrying.
As those parts feel safe enough to let go of their coping roles, emotional eating and bingeing naturally begin to unwind.
This work doesn’t try to control your eating.
It heals the part of you that learned to use food to survive.
There are no food rules here.
No tracking.
No willpower battles.
No shame.
Just parts-based therapy that works with your nervous system, not against it, so the patterns you’ve been stuck in for years can finally change.
Why emotional eating keeps happening even when you know better
Emotional eating isn’t a lack of discipline.
It’s not a character flaw.
And it’s not something you need to control harder.
It’s a nervous-system-driven pattern.
A protective system inside you that learned, often very early, how to use food to cope with stress, pressure, emotional overload, and unmet needs.
In Internal Family Systems therapy, emotional eating is understood as a protective part of you.
Not a bad habit.
This part learned that food was the fastest and safest way to regulate your nervous system when something overwhelming or unsupported was happening in your life.
So now, when your system senses:
• stress
• emotional overload
• pressure
• exhaustion
• loneliness
• resentment
• burnout
that part automatically reaches for food.
Not because you’re weak.
But because at some point, food became safer or easier than asking for help, slowing down, or letting yourself feel what was really there.
That’s why you can understand your patterns and still repeat them.
That’s why insight hasn’t translated into change.
And that’s why “starting again Monday” never lasts.
No amount of willpower can override a protective system that doesn’t yet feel safe.
Until the underlying trauma patterns and emotional wounds are healed, the behaviour they drive will keep coming back.
This work doesn’t start with food.
It starts with the parts of you that learned to cope alone.
When those parts are finally met, understood, and healed, emotional eating no longer needs to exist.
You stop fighting with food because you’re no longer fighting with yourself.
Why this is different from everything you’ve tried
Most approaches to emotional eating focus on controlling the behaviour.
Meal plans.
Rules.
Mindset.
Discipline.
Starting again Monday.
But emotional eating isn’t a behaviour problem.
It’s a nervous system and trauma pattern.
Which is why:
• you can know exactly what to do
• you can understand your patterns
• you can be highly self-aware
• you can “do everything right”
and still end up bingeing or emotionally eating.
Until the underlying protective system feels safe, the behaviour will keep coming back.
This work doesn’t ask you to override that system.
It works with it.
Instead of trying to stop emotional eating, we heal the part of you that learned to use food to cope.
Instead of forcing discipline, we create safety in your nervous system.
Instead of insight alone, we create embodied change.
This is why women who’ve done therapy, mindset work, and diets finally experience real relief here.
Not because they tried harder.
But because they healed what was actually driving it.
What actually changes when you heal emotional eating at the root
When the pressure inside your system finally softens, change doesn’t arrive as a big breakthrough moment.
It shows up quietly, in your real life.
You notice that food stops feeling out of control.
You stop binge eating when you’re not hungry.
You stop compulsively going to food after stressful days.
You stop sabotaging your eating every time you try to “be good.”
Food becomes neutral.
Not perfect.
Not controlled.
Just calmer.
You no longer need food to numb, soothe, or escape your emotions.
You start trusting your body again.
Not because you’ve fixed it.
But because you can feel what’s happening inside you without panic.
Your emotional capacity expands.
You can feel stress, sadness, boredom, or frustration without needing to shut down or reach for food.
Boundaries become cleaner.
You say no without spiralling.
You stop over-giving when you’re already depleted.
You stop carrying everyone else’s emotional load.
Your nervous system feels steadier.
There’s less tension in your body.
Less hypervigilance.
Less internal chaos.
Your inner world becomes quieter.
The shame softens.
The self-attack eases.
The constant mental noise around food fades.
And slowly, without forcing it, joy finds its way back in.
Not because everything in your life changes.
But because you do.
The first step into this work
The first step into Release & Reclaim is a Release & Reclaim Consultation.
This is a trauma-informed orientation and fit session for emotional eating.
It is not a sales call.
It is a contained clinical consultation to explore readiness, scope, and whether this container is the right level of support for what you are working with.
In this session, we will:
• map what is happening in your internal system
• identify the parts driving your emotional eating and binge cycles
• explore whether this work is the right fit for you
• clarify next steps based on your nervous system, needs, and capacity
This is a space for clarity, containment, and informed consent.
Not persuasion.
Not pressure.
Not obligation.
Release & Reclaim Consultation
A trauma-informed orientation and fit session for emotional eating
Investment
Release & Reclaim is a 12-week private one-on-one trauma-informed therapy journey.
The investment for this container is:
$3,600 upfront
or
$300 per week for 12 weeks
This investment reflects the depth, structure, and level of therapeutic support provided inside this work.
Please only book a Release & Reclaim Consultation if this investment feels realistically accessible for you at this stage.
Payment plans are available once fit and readiness have been explored in the Release & Reclaim Consultation.