279 - How to Break Free From Emotional Spirals

Why We Overeat with Maggie Sterling

Maggie Sterling

Fatloss, Education, Self-improvement, Losingweight, Diet, Weightloss, Coach, Lowcarb, Mindset, Dietcoach, Health & Fitness, Dieting, Ketocoach, Keto

4.8 • 845 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

You’ve learned how to sit with your emotions instead of eating through them—but now what? In today’s episode, Maggie explains why staying stuck in negative emotions can become its own form of sabotage. You'll learn how indulging in drama keeps you from real change, and how to shift your perspective to start feeling better without needing your circumstances to change. This conversation is a wake-up call to stop rolling around in the shit and start moving through it. If you’ve been feeling stuck, this is the nudge you’ve been waiting for.

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00:00 – Why we don’t coddle the drama
01:30 – What it means to “sit in the shit”
04:00 – Allowing emotion vs. avoiding with food
06:30 – When allowing becomes indulgent
08:45 – How stuck emotions become your identity
11:00 – Questions to shift your mindset
13:00 – Coaching examples of “I can’t” thinking
15:00 – The drama spiral: 30 things vs 3
18:00 – Changing your life by changing your story
21:00 – Final takeaway: Don’t sit in the shit too long

Transcript

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0:00.0	you guys might get triggered.
0:01.1	You might get offended at me asking these questions,
0:03.0	but like I love knowing that I'm contributing to this.
0:07.2	Like a lot, like a big aspect of my experience
0:10.6	is actually my contribution with my perspective
0:12.5	and that I can feel better today
0:14.9	and nothing in my outside world has to change.
0:18.4	That situation with my kid, it doesn't have to change.
0:20.7	That situation with my job, it doesn't have to change. That
0:20.8	situation with my job, it doesn't have to change. Whatever I'm fucking stressed about, none of that
0:25.8	has to change because I changed. We're worried about you and your experience of your life. And I'm not
0:31.2	a good coach if I let you sit in the shit and stay in the shit to where you're having this
0:35.6	experience and you're like, well, this is so hard. I'm like, oh my God, yes, it is.
0:39.1	This is terrible.
0:39.9	Tell me everything.
0:40.9	Tell me all the reasons why it's so hard
0:42.4	and why it's so unfair
0:43.4	and why they shouldn't have done that.
0:45.0	And then me and you
0:45.8	are both rolling around in the shit together?
0:48.1	Absolutely fucking not.
0:49.3	Oh, yeah.
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