The Missing Piece: How to Navigate Your Emotions After Weight Loss with Featured Speaker Dr. Brian Grossman

About this episode

Dr. Brian Grossman discusses the emotional challenges that accompany weight loss and offers tools for navigating these changes.

Weight loss changes your body — but what about your emotions, habits, identity, and stress responses? In this powerful session, Dr. Brian Grossman explores The Missing Piece: How to Navigate Your Emotions After Weight Loss . Whether you've experienced bariatric surgery, used GLP-1 medications, or achieved significant weight loss through other methods, this presentation reveals why physical transformation alone doesn't automatically heal emotional patterns or retrain lifelong habits. You'll discover practical tools to help you stop reacting emotionally, handle cravings and triggers, and build a healthier relationship with yourself beyond the scale. In this session, you'll learn: ✨ Why emotional patterns often remain after weight loss ✨ The hidden emotional gap many people experience ✨ What Joy Intelligence (JQ) is and how it works ✨ The 4-Step Emotional Navigation Framework ✨ Real-life reset tools for stress, cravings, and emotional triggers ✨ How the JQ Edge can become your daily emotional GPS Featured Speaker: Dr. Brian Grossman Dr. Brian Grossman is a certified Positive Intelligence coach and holds a PhD in clinical psychology. After maintaining a 187-pound weight loss for over…

People in this episode

Host: Brenda Hoehn

Guest: Dr. Brian Grossman

Topics covered

• emotional health
• weight loss
• bariatric surgery
• mental fitness
• emotional resilience
• habits
• stress management

Keywords

• emotional patterns
• weight loss
• Joy Intelligence
• emotional navigation
• stress triggers
• cravings
• mental fitness
• bariatric surgery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ProCare Health

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