Eileen’s program helped to lay a beautiful foundation for changing my relationship with food and my body. Eileen was such a kind and encouraging coach. She made me feel SEEN and truly heard for the first time in my life. Her gentle demeanor instantly helped ease my fears and any hesitations I had going into my Intuitive Eating journey were soon forgotten. Food no longer controls my life and I can keep chips in my house and not devour them beyond satiation. I cannot remember a time since I was a young child that that has been the case. I used to have to buy my husband chips for his lunch and keep them out in our garage just to make it harder for me to eat them. And even that didn’t work. I would still sometimes sneak out to the garage and eat them. When I did break down and eat them, I would do it in secret, often finishing off the entire bag and hiding it so as not to leave behind any evidence of my binge. I experienced SO much shame around eating forbidden foods like chips and sweets, that I mostly ate them in secret and in the evenings when there were no witnesses around, often eating WAY beyond satiation and hiding the evidence. It was kind of a joke with my family, but it was not a joke to me. It was disordered eating and it controlled me. I started this disordered pattern during my childhood and until just recently, it kept me in a constant state of shame and overwhelm. Not only have I been freed from my disordered eating, binging and the shame and guilt that come along with it, but I have also learned so much about myself and how I have used food as a coping mechanism to help regulate my emotions for decades. Less than a year ago I had tried everything and I had decided that I would probably always be a slave to my cravings and just live in the shameful cycle of restricting and binging on forbidden foods. I no longer consider ANY foods to be forbidden and my entire approach toward myself, the body I am living in, and my eating habits has been completely transformed.