About Cookies and Confidence: How to Manage Emotional Eating
Learn to balance the critical voice in your head, stop eating your feelings and start eating good food to discover a life and a body you love. We’ll talk about how to look at emotional eating so you can manage your weight and increase your mental health at the same time.
A Guided Check-In With the Parts of You That Turn to Food
If you’ve ever felt like there are a dozen voices in your head—some yelling about food, some trying to control everything, and some just wanting to hide—you’re not alone. Emotional eaters often have rich, complex inner worlds that can feel overwhelming and loud.
In today’s episode, we explore what it means to gently tune in to those inner parts of us with curiosity and care. Using a lens inspired by Internal Family Systems (IFS), I walk you through questions and reflections that can help you create space between you and the parts of you that feel anxious, compulsive, critical, or stuck. This isn’t about fixing or fighting them—it’s about listening and understanding.
Think of this episode like a mental house-cleaning day: no big renovations, just clearing the clutter, opening some windows, and making room to breathe.
If you’ve ever thought, “Why do I feel so many things at once?”—this episode is for you.
If you are curious about more guided coaching like this, please connect with me at vickizollingercoaching.com.
17 Aug 2025
When You Wish You Could Eat Like a Normal Person
Have you ever thought, “Why can’t I just eat like a normal person?” Many emotional eaters have. In this episode, I’m talking about that question—where it comes from, what it really means, and how it affects the way we see ourselves and our eating habits.
You’ll hear about the hidden beliefs behind thoughts like “I have no control” or “I always mess this up,” and how those thoughts create shame and frustration. I’ll walk you through ways to get curious instead of critical, and how to shift the way you talk to yourself—especially in those tough moments when food feels like the only answer.
We’ll also talk about what “normal eating” even means and how to start creating a version of normal that actually works for you.
This episode is about letting go of perfection, softening the shame, and learning how to support yourself in a kinder, more honest way.
Join me for more like this at vickizollingercoaching.com.
17 Aug 2025
When You Feel The Urge To Eat (But You're Not Hungry)
In this episode, we talk about a critical skill for emotional eaters: recognizing and responding to the urge to eat. Stress eating, emotionally eating, just wanting more than one treat, you name it. If you’ve ever found yourself halfway through a bag of chips or rerouting for a drive thru or needing chocolate right now, this episode is for you.
Learn what you need to begin changing the cycle—starting with how to feel your feelings instead of feeding them. Learn how to:
Identify emotional urges before they become unconscious eating
Sit with discomfort without suffering
Understand the "food noise" in your brain and what it really means
Practice simple powerful tools like breathwork, body awareness, and self-compassion
This episode is not about restriction or guilt—it’s about reclaiming your power, calming your nervous system, and creating a kinder, more conscious relationship with food and yourself.
It’s safe to feel. It’s safe to be with yourself. It’s safe to begin.
If this episodes resonates, please connect with me at vickizollingercoaching.com
15 Jun 2025
When Food Stops Helping
This episode explores emotional eating, breaks down the reasons behind it, and offers methods to understand the thoughts and feelings connected to food choices for empowered decision-making.
15 Jun 2025
When You Want To But You Don't
This episode explores the internal conflict between wanting to achieve health goals and struggling to follow through, offering tools for self-awareness and breaking negative cycles.
15 Jun 2025
When You Have Eaten the Whole Bag
This episode examines the emotions and thoughts that arise after overeating, emphasizing the importance of self-kindness and understanding deeper needs.
15 Feb 2025
When It's All Too Much
Listen in for an introduction on emotional eating and how it relates to sensory overwhelm and overstimulation. If you are using food to relax or cope with stress, learn how that may work for you short-term, but there's better options. I talk about how to know when you are in sensory overwhelm, understand nervous system resilience and tools for feeling better.
Please share your stories on this topic with me at vickizollingercoaching.com. I'd love to connect.
9 Feb 2025
When Nothing Feels as Good as Food
Join me for episode 7 as we talk about solutions for emotional eating, especially when we overuse food to soothe, celebrate and relax. If you are feeling that nothing feels as good as food does after a long, stressful day, listen in to discover alternatives ways to think, feel and eat. Connect with me at vickizollingercoaching.com for more.
6 Jul 2024
When You Feel Fat
Join us for episode six where I talk about feeling fat, no matter my weight. Learn strategies for healing self-talk around mirrors, pictures and opinions of our own body. This is the stuff I wish I heard when I was a young girl and I need to hear again and again even as a adult.
Connect with me at vickizollingercoaching.com.
6 Jul 2024
When You Think Food Will Help
Join me for episode five when we look at how we are trying to use food to help cope and how it may serve us, but also how it may not. We talk about developing just five things for our weight maintenance goals and then sticking to that just 80% of the time. If you are done trying to control your weight with specialized diets and strict protocols, listen to this episode and discover your own answers for a life you love in any body size.
Connect with me at vickizollingercoaching.com.
6 Jul 2024
When You Want To Lose Weight
Join me for episode 4 where we talk about emotional eating and weight loss: why weight loss is hard, how self-loathing is the least effective form of weight loss, and how we can balance overeating, overdesire, overhunger and overtrying to find a life and body we love.
Connect with me at vickizollingercoaching.com.
8 Jun 2024
When You Feel So Stressed
Stress and emotional eating are a duo like peanut butter and jelly. But understanding just five things can change our emotional eating behaviors. And when we increase our awareness of this, we have to increase our compassion too. Also, join us to learn more about your nervous system and how befriending it could be the missing piece to discovering a life and body you love. Find more, and the models I mention in this episode, at vickizollingercoaching.com.
25 May 2024
When You Wish You Were Different
Join me for episode two to learn more about MINDfullness combined with BODYfullness and how each can help you notice and name your emotions. When we understand what we are feeling and how to allow emotion, we can discover a body and a life we love. We'll learn more about types of hunger and how to our use our thoughts to become better at emotional eating. Find out more at vickizollingercoaching.com.
2 May 2024
When You Really, Really Want A Treat
Join me for episode one to learn all about emotional eating, how it's a problem and actually not a problem in our lives, and what we can do to feel in control about our food choices and stop negative self-talk from creating a mental battle between our brain, food and our bodies.
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