Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Five Star App Meditation Studio.

I'm Patricia Carpus, co-founder of Meditation Studio, and your host on Untangle.

Join us each week as we introduce you to authors, experts, and thought leaders who share their stories on how meditation and mindfulness practices

have the power to change our lives.

To kickstart the new year, if you haven't already, you can download the Meditation Studio

app in the app store, where you'll find our new motivation collection with meditations

designed to help you create new habits and make all your

2019 dreams come true. Later in January, you'll enjoy lots of new original music tracks to add

to new deep sleep meditations and meditations for your kiddos. Our app is like having a little inspirational coach

in your pocket when you're facing any challenge. If you have a minute, will you give us a review

on the app and the podcast? It helps a lot to get the word out. And any comments for us, reach out

at founders at Meditation Studio app.com.

Today's guest is Natalie Zices.

Natalie is an eating psychology and nutrition coach.

She shares that most of us know what we should or shouldn't be eating, but we struggle

with impulse control and changing habits.

She helps us understand how we can uplevel our self-awareness and love for ourselves

and how we can make better choices for our overall health and well-being.

She reminds us how important it is to ask the question,

what is it that you really need right now? Often our eating habits

and food cravings are masking some other need. Natalie helps with some tools and strategies to help

get more in touch with what we need so we don't use food to self-suit. She talks about doing a joy inventory and reinforces how important it is for us to

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