277 | Underrated Nutrition Game Changer - Learning Presence as a Skill

About this episode

Ashley Pardo discusses the importance of presence as a skill in managing nutrition and overcoming binge-eating.

You know what to eat. It's just hard to do it consistently, and when this is happening, the problem isn't willpower - it's presence. Presence is the skill of being WITH yourself (your thoughts, emotions, urges) without immediately reacting. It's what lets you feel the urge to binge and NOT automatically overeat or leave your body. In this episode, I share how I developed presence as a skill after 20+ years of binge-eating, tangible tactics you can practice today, and why this is the missing p...

Topics covered

• nutrition
• mindfulness
• binge-eating
• self-awareness

Keywords

• presence
• willpower
• emotions
• tactics

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