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Becoming You. A Natural Unfolding of Balance and Equanimity Through Nutrition, Yoga and Inner Welln Be Well.

By Alana Kessler, a Holistic Health Coach in New York City works to integrate your mind & body to receive, incorporate & transform intrinsic & extrinsic information supporting the evolution of day to day living. Holistic Health through Alana's unique Method Mapping technique & The BE WELL ARC System balances wellness with Nutrition & Yoga to refine your health & find your best, most complete self.

11/03/2026

This simple statement of food isn't the problem, there's one thing to know about it or read about it, and another thing to embody it in your daily life.

Once you understand that food isn't the problem, it's just the placeholder, you will start to make different choices.

It's standing in for something deeper inside of you that you're really craving.
What you're really craving is emotional safety, stability, control over your own life.

Full Episode Out Now - www.bewellbyak.com/podcast

11/02/2026

The thing with food as we get older and why we still choose it as an escape is because it doesn't talk back, it doesn't leave, it doesn't change the rules.

So when we become adults, we still turn to food as the place where we try to find control.

And when our lives as adults start to feel out of control, our relationships, work, family, the weight of just everyday stress starts to create some internal chaos, food becomes the thing that we grab onto to feel stable.

Listen now at www.bewellbyak.com/podcast

11/02/2026

There were times when I felt like I had to be perfect with food. Measuring, tracking, controlling every bite.

I’d keep a running list of how many calories I’d had that day.

And here’s what I realized about myself. It made me feel productive. Like I was doing something. Like I was proving something to myself.

Then there were other times when everything felt like it was falling apart, the emotions, the heaviness, the relational conflicts all too big and food became my escape hatch. I’d turn to food for soothing. I’d turn to food to numb.

I’ve been on both sides of this. A lot of women are some combination of both.

The new episode is about what both sides are actually reaching for, and where to get it instead.

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10/27/2026

I earned this.

We say it about a treat, about a meal, about a whole weekend. I worked out. I burned 600 calories. So now I can have this.

That isn't a decision. It's a negotiation.

And you're bartering with yourself over dinner like it's something you have to win.

These are mindset blocks. They're so unconscious that they're almost impossible to catch while they're happening.

But you can't heal what you don't see.

🎧 Full episode out now: www.bewellbyak.com/podcast

10/25/2026

Some of these mindset blocks are just FOMO, or people pleasing.

There's a party, so I have to eat this way. There's a vacation, so that's vacation eating.

And then there's the big one. Week versus weekend.

This is how I eat Monday through Friday. Then Friday night hits and I'm gonna let my flag fly. It's the weekend. Let it all go.

We say these like they're facts about us. They're not. They're blocks.

And they've decided how the whole weekend goes before you've made a single choice.

🎧 Full episode out now: www.bewellbyak.com/podcast

10/22/2026

A client of mine goes hiking with her family most weekends. Afterward they all end up at the same diner, and she orders the greasiest thing on the menu, the platter, the sandwich, whatever's heaviest. She gets back in the car feeling like garbage, and that feeling shapes how she eats for the rest of the day.

When I asked her why, she didn't say she was hungry. She said, "This is what we do when we go on a hike."

That's a mindset block. And it sounds so much like a fact that it never gets questioned.

You've got your own versions of it. This is how I eat on vacation. It's the weekend, so… I burned 600 calories this morning, so I can have this one. They feel like preferences but really they're closer to rules.

The new episode is about how to actually see them, and why that's the uncomfortable part.

🎧 Full episode out now: www.bewellbyak.com/podcast

10/22/2026

It took me a long time to get here, but food is neutral. It isn't good and it isn't bad.
Food was never the part that needed fixing.

Food is a substance. Eating is an experience. Those are two different things, and most of us have been treating them like one.

And the experience of eating is the one we learned to lean on. Not as adults. As babies. We cried, we got the bottle.

So by the time you're grown and standing in the kitchen at nine at night, you're not doing something new. You're doing the oldest thing you know.

🎧 Full episode on now: www.bewellbyak.com/podcast

10/20/2026

Essentially emotional eating is the action of using food to fix discomfort.

Or sometimes it's mindless.
We emotionally eat and we don't even understand why.

You're standing there. The wrapper's already open. You don't remember deciding anything.

So we kind of just retrospectively look back and we're like, "Yes, that was emotional eating."
"Wow, I just binge ate."

🎧 Full episode out now: www.bewellbyak.com/podcast

10/18/2026

We spend our time scrolling through social media.
Binge-watching the latest TV shows.

And we really train ourselves.
We almost get addicted to this constant sensation.
We sort of become like sensation junkies almost.

And when we're consistently metabolizing that sensation from the outside world, we really get left feeling depleted.

Not tired the way a long day makes you tired. Emptier than that.

And that depletion takes the form of overwhelm.
Disconnection.
Emotional exhaustion.

🎧 Full episode out now: www.bewellbyak.com/podcast

10/15/2026

I've been practicing yoga since the late '90s.

There's a point in a long hold where the sensation builds. The front leg starts shaking. And everything in you wants to quit the pose.

The whole practice is learning that you don't have to.

You stay in the pose. You breathe. And the sensation goes somewhere on its own, without you doing anything about it.

It took me years to connect that to my food habits.

Because it's the same moment that happens at nine o'clock in your kitchen.

Something builds all day. The texts you answered between meetings. The scrolling you did while you were half listening to someone. The commute home.

None of it disappears when the day ends. It sits in your body. And by night it feels like it has to go somewhere.

So it goes into food. You open the cabinet you already opened twenty minutes ago. You're not hungry and you know you're not hungry.

We think the food is the temptation. Most of the time it isn't.

That's what I'm breaking down in today's episode of Emotional Eating Unwrapped.

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