Welcome to Empowed Eating the podcast, I am Kim Stevenson Farmakis, Binge free since 2011, International Athlete, Mum, author, and your coach to help you break up with binging.
People think they just need to diet harder and train more. The unknown secret is, Emotional eating is the symptom of something deeper, at an unconscious level. I will share with you tools and strategies that you can apply immediately to have an Empowered Relationship with food and create your dream life.
I hope that the insights and strategies shared in this show inspired you to cultivate a healthier relationship with food and your body. You deserve success in all areas of your life.
Reach out and connect with me on Facebook Transformations by Kim, or Instagram Kim Stevenson Farmakis. In my bio you can find heaps of free resources like Empowered Eating cheatsheet, affirmations, and how to purchase my book Alternatively use the contact page on my website Transformationsbykim.com to pop into my emails
If you’re looking for more guidance on your journey towards an empowered eating mindset, I invite you to check out my online course. This comprehensive program is designed to help you transform your relationship with food, build sustainable habits, and create unshakeable self-confidence.
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Valentina, a PT growing her online coaching business, identified and worked through a core limiting belief that had been quietly blocking her growth:
“I can’t have freedom, success, or money.”
Through NLP belief change work, she traced this belief back to childhood conditioning and watching her mother work multiple jobs while still struggling financially. Unconsciously, she had linked success with struggle and instability.
The session also revealed a major coaching pattern:She held her online clients less accountable than her face-to-face clients because deep down she feared losing them.
What looked like a business strategy issue was actually rooted in deeper beliefs around worthiness, safety, money, and stability.
This is the kind of hidden pattern that affects not only business growth, but also client results, emotional eating, self-sabotage, and the ability to fully step into leadership as a coach.
16 May 2026
Session 4 Empowered Eating For PTs and Wellness Coaches
If you're an experienced Personal Trainer or wellness coach and you feel out of your depth when clients show up with emotional eating, binge eating, or GLP-1 dependence, this training is for you.
Most coaches know how to write meal plans and training programs.
But when a client says:
"I know what to do, I just can't stick to it."
"I sabotage myself every time things are going well."
"Food feels like my comfort."
"I'm scared of regaining the weight if I stop Mounjaro or Ozempic."
...most coaches don't know what to do next.
This 8-part Foundations of Transformational Coaching training teaches you how to coach the whole person, not just the macros.
What You'll Learn
Session 1 – Foundations of Transformational Coaching & Emotional EatingUnderstand why willpower and motivation are not enough.
Session 2 – Conditioning, Origin Stories & Food as ProtectionDiscover how past experiences shape current eating behaviours.
Session 3 – Secondary Gain, Resistance & Emotional SafetyLearn why clients unconsciously hold onto the very behaviours they say they want to change.
Session 4 – Identity, Beliefs & Self-SabotageUncover the hidden beliefs driving repeated setbacks.
Session 5 – Belief Change with NLPUse proven tools to help clients rewire limiting beliefs.
Session 6 – Integration, Forgiveness & Emotional NeutralityRelease emotional charge and create lasting freedom.
Session 7 – Embodiment & Nervous System ChangeHelp clients feel safe enough to sustain change.
Session 8 – Identity Lock-In & The Next Level of CoachingSolidify new patterns and step into advanced transformational coaching.
Who This Is For
I help experienced PTs and wellness coaches who feel out of their depth when clients show up with emotional eating, binge eating, or GLP-1 dependence so they can actually coach the whole person, not just the meal plan, and stop losing clients to self-sabotage at the 8-week mark.
This is the foundation pathway into Advanced Practitioner work and will change the way you coach forever.
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