Welcome to Empower Yourself, the podcast for women who want to break free from emotional eating, rebuild their relationship with food, and feel truly confident in their mind and body.
I’ve been on this journey myself—struggling with food, chasing the “perfect” body, and feeling trapped in the cycle of guilt and frustration. Now, I help women like you find freedom, without restriction or obsession.
Each episode is filled with practical tools, mindset shifts, and real talk to help you heal your relationship with food and embrace your body with confidence.
Ep.8: Understanding Cravings: A Mindful and Empowered Approach
In this episode, we dive deep into one of the most common challenges women face on their journey to food freedom: cravings.
Here’s what we cover:
1. What are cravings, really? Discover the true nature of cravings and why they’re not your enemy.
2. Why do we experience cravings? From emotional needs to physical imbalances — we explore the root causes behind those intense urges.
3. How restriction makes cravings worse Learn how dieting and food rules create a cycle of frustration and obsession around food.
4. A new approach: Mindful and Empowered Eating I share how to shift from control and guilt to trust and freedom using a more compassionate and sustainable method.
20 Mar 2025
Ep.7: Healing from food addiction
In this episode, we dive deep into the emotional overeating addiction. I explain why we can call it an addiction, we explore the dopamine loop and the behaviors that keep us stuck. Most importantly we discuss practical steps to heal, reclaim control and build a healthy relationship with food.
This isn’t about willpower or rigid rules : it’s about awareness, self-compassion and real transformation. Are you ready to break free ?
13 Nov 2024
Ep.6: Other people ‘s opinions
This podcast encourages you to break free from other people ‘s opinions.
People may like you, hate you, don’t care about you, it’s not your problem.
I talked about my personal story and how giving them permission to dislike me or judge me has been life changing!
4 Nov 2024
Ep.5: Mindset and Weight loss
This episode is about having the right mindset during our weight loss journey. It is crucial to succeed in it. Two things are keys : discomfort and love. I explain everything in the podcast.
Enjoy the process and not the end result.
25 Oct 2024
Ep.4: Being coached
I am a coach and I love being coached. In this episode, I am talking about my personal experience with coaching and how it changed and still changing my life. I encourage you to hire a coach because I believe that mental health is so important to invest in. Don’t hesitate to reach out to me on instagram @maria____aoun and I’m ready to help you feel better and increase your awareness, your confidence and your well being.
19 Oct 2024
Ep.3: Moving forward through hard times
This episode will help you move forward during hard times, or anything bad happening in the world. I mentioned my Lebanese community because of the war right now.
I talked about what we can and can’t control, what we can do to help ourselves process the emotions, how to stop buffering, imagine the worst case scenario and contribution is also one way to move forward !
12 Oct 2024
Ep.2: Boundaries with Love
In this episode, you will find why I encourage you to put boundaries, what it means and how to put boundaries with love. You will listen to concrete examples and don’t hesitate to write a comment or rate the podcast. You can reach out to me on instagram @maria____aoun and work with me through my 1:1 coaching.
6 Oct 2024
Ep.1 : Accept your body and overcome emotional eating
In this short episode, you will have some of my personal story and concrete tools to accept your body and overcome emotional eating.
I share with you what to do when you have an urge to eat !
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