377: How to Overcome Stress, Cravings & Weight Gain With The Watkins Method

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Katie Wells

Parenting, Education, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Motherhood, Mom Life, Wellness, Kids & Family, Organic, Health, Natural Living, Self-improvement

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

During quarantine, I’ve heard from many of you asking for help with cravings and weight gain caused by stress and the emotional toll all of this is taking. To that end I brought in Brittany Watkins, one of my favorite people for advice on natural ways to stop emotional eating, control food cravings, and end self-sabotage.

In fact, she’s one of the top experts in the world on using something called Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), or tapping, which I relied on heavily during my weight loss journey. During that experience I realized I had to do the inner work I had ignored for so long in order to move forward.

Let me say too that I don’t think people need to necessarily be a certain size or a certain weight to be healthy. At the same time, I can’t argue with the fact that my health markers are all in a healthier range now and my Hashimotos is finally in remission. I give Brittany and her methods a lot of credit for where I am today, and I’m excited to share her with you in this episode.

Episode Highlights on The Watkins Method

How trauma can show up on our body as extra weight
Ways our bodies store traumatic experiences (even the small ones)
Why tapping interrupts and retrains our ingrained thoughts and memories
A strategy for tracing a craving back to an emotion or thought
The 9 points of EFT and how Emotional Freedom Therapy works
Ideas for handing down healthy thoughts and behaviors to our children, especially around food
What led Brittany to finally find the source of her struggles and find peace
One key question that stops most cravings in their tracks
And more!

Resources We Mention

Brittany Watkins
Previous podcast with Brittany Watkins: 212: How to Release Cravings and Emotional Eating With EFT
Blog post: EFT: How Tapping & Emotional Freedom Technique Work
The Inconvenient Truth About Relationships by Arthur Hartz
Alison A. Armstrong

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to my Mommy's Podcast!
0:05.1	This episode is sponsored by Choofe, that's J-O-O-V-V, a red light therapy company.
0:11.6	Like many of you, I'm always trying to find different ways to keep my wellness routine
0:15.2	and check.
0:16.2	And I've noticed that there are some things that are really helpful to me, including practicing
0:20.4	daily gratitude, no phone an hour before and after bed, eating healthy and exercising,
0:25.8	and if you've been listening to me for a while, getting in red light therapy sessions.
0:29.8	I've told you before about why I love Choofe for red light therapy.
0:34.0	The skin and hair benefits are awesome, and I find that I also recover more quickly from
0:38.3	soreness after working out.
0:39.8	Choofe is my preferred red light therapy device because it has a patented modular system
0:44.7	that lets you build as you go so you can find a way to fit it into your budget.
0:49.6	They have full body devices like the Elite and the Duo, and you can actually keep connecting
0:54.7	the smaller pieces to make as big of a device as you want.
0:57.7	They also have a smaller desktop model called the Choofe Mini, which is great for travel
1:01.9	or for spot trading things like joints or the skin on your face.
1:06.0	When it comes to natural light modalities, bigger is actually better for optimal benefits,
1:10.2	which is why their modular system is so cool.
1:13.3	Like I said, you can keep adding to it over time, so you don't have to have it all ready
1:16.8	to go in the beginning.
1:18.1	I wanted my listeners to know that they have an exclusive discount on larger devices when
1:22.0	you upgrade your system within the first year of initial purchase.
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