Holiday Survival Guide Surviving the holidays can be tough. Thriving in the holiday nearly impossible for some. Perhaps the holiday period is causing you more anxiety than pleasure. The anticipation of seeing certain family members might be causing you to be in an emotional eating rollercoaster. Perhaps the business of it all drives you to completely forget about yourself and by the time you get to Christmas, you’re completely exhausted and completely lost control on any healthy habits you might have in place just a few weeks before. The Beyond The Food Holiday Survival guide will move you from self-destructing eating habits during the holiday to thriving and loving the holidays altogether! and Yes, it’s possible... As with anything we teach here, a few tweaks in your mindset and how you approach certain situation or event will be needed to move from shriveling at the idea to anticipating the holiday with excitement. In this episode I discuss The #1 cause of emotional eating loop My personal advice on how you engage with food and weight during the holidays How to deal with negative family members  Last episode, I shared why smart women don't diet and what they do instead. I know exactly based on my personal experience... after 27 years of dieting, I’m clear on one thing… diets don’t work. We think that a “thin” body is going to unlock our happiness, our acceptance, our joy.  The stats are clear...  91% of all women are unhappy about their body and resort to dieting.  And 95% of all dieters regain their all weight within 1-5 years. Yet we keep dieting. We keep hating our body. We keep judging ourselves for our inability to be in freaking control… yet neuroscience is clear: WILLPOWER is a limited resource. Still dieting? You gotta listen to this, smart woman! Click here.  Leave me a review, if you enjoy the show and would love to encourage and support my work, leave me an honest review using this link, click here. For a podcaster like me, reviews are like a fuel... and I would appreciate hearing from you more than I could possibly say!  Here's a quick tutorial on How to leave a review.      Links mentioned in the episode Holiday Survival Guide: 5-part series: Get started with any article... Teaching Good Holiday Eating Habits to Kids  The critical importance of self-care during the holiday period  Must do during the holiday: Stress Management and dealing with negative family members How to survive the holiday parties My top 5 healthy baking tips Making Healthy Holiday Easy: Negative Family Members video   Get your Food Freedom Score Register to the Academy waitlist Subscribe To Our Coaching Newsletter  Register for the 2019 Retreat   Submit a question for the next episode If you want to submit a question for Stephanie's next episode, click here and join our free and private community.   Reach Stephanie  Website Facebook Instagram YouTube Email ***For your information - some links above may be my affiliate links, which means I get a small commission if you click on it and make a purchase. Doing so is no additional cost to you, but helps me tremendously. Your support is SO greatly appreciated, so thank you in advance if you choose to do so***