Shannon Lagasse
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Health & Happiness Coach, Emotional Eating Expert
Shannon Lagasse Quick Facts
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- Emotional Eating, Overeating, Food Addiction, Self-Esteem, Self-Love, Eating Disorders, Body Image
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- Coach, Speaker, and Writer
Shannon Lagasse, certified holistic health coach and emotional eating expert, teaches women struggling with low self-esteem and an unhealthy relationship with food how to love themselves, create their ideal body, and live a fantastically awesome life. By coming from a focus on pleasure and getting to the heart of their issues, Shannon's clients are empowered to find freedom from food fears and fulfill their deepest desires. To learn more about working with Shannon, grab your complimentary Food Freedom Kit, and to receive her inspirational weekly articles on natural ways to get the body and life you want, visit her website: HungerforHappiness.com.
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How to Read Food Labels
The labeling of food is often one of the most confusing parts of maintaining a healthy diet. Everywhere we look there are words like, "Organic," "Non-GMO," "Local," "Fair Trade, "Sustainable," "Gluten-Free," and the list goes on. What do these words mean?
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All the Benefits to Eating Locally and More
There's a movement that's been trending for a couple of years now. The people of this movement call themselves "locavores," and they eat only foods grown within 100 miles of their home. The benefits of eating local foods are many: supporting local farmers, boosting the economy of a community, getting to know where your food comes from, improved nutrient density of foods, it's environmentally-friendly, and it's a cheaper alte ative to buying organic.
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Fat Serves a Purpose - What's Yours?
Fat serves a purpose. I know a lot of women who are overweight think that it is the root of all evil, the bane of their existence, but it truly is serving a higher purpose. For instance, a young girl is sexually abused as a child.
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Each Choice Has a Consequence
In mythology it's written that there are thousands of strands of time and which strand becomes the future depends on the choices that you make in each and every moment. I know it sounds crazy, but what happens to you is shaped by the decisions you make right here, right now. When you put off exercise for another day, you're making a choice the affects your future. When you eat too much or eat foods that you know aren't healthy for you, you're deciding what the future of your health is going to be like.
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How do you find time to do what you love?
The other weekend I went to this amazing event called Chantlanta. There was, of course, kirtan, but they also had classes in yoga, 5 rhythms, and meditation. The whole experience was amazing. After only a couple of hours, I left feeling renewed and rejuvenated. I felt like a whole new person. It totally changed the course of my day and the day after that. Have you ever had an experience like that? Something that makes you feel so good that the good feelings last for days? This is a fairly common occurrence with group events like workshops, seminars, and retreats.
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10 Simple Steps to Losing Weight Without the Hassle
I'm pretty sure we all know how to eat. If not because of what our body tells us, then at least from the numerous articles about it in newspapers, magazines, and online websites. Here are a few of the tips that I've found helpful in controlling what, when, and how I eat:
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What to Focus on Besides Food
Nourishment isn’t just about what you eat. You can nourish your body in many ways other than with food. This concept is called “primary foods” and is an integral part of the curriculum at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. This theory is so amazing because it exemplifies the domino effect and how when one part of your life is out of balance, it affects every other part of your life. Let’s take a for-instance scenario:
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Celebrating Your Successes
In our culture, it’s typical to keep setting goals for yourself and striving towards those goals. It’s also fairly standard that once you reach a goal, you set a new one. In our efforts to keep going, keep building, and keep improving ourselves, we often neglect the importance of celebrating our successes.
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My Theory on Weight-Loss Backed by Dr. Oz
You've seen the man on Oprah and just about everything other popular talk TV show. Well here's what he has to say about health coaches: "You're more likely to lose weight with a coach. If you don't deal with working on your relationship with food, nothing that's important in your life is going to change." -Dr. Mehmet Oz
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The Breakup Binge: 3 Thoughts for My Heartbroken Self
You may or you may not know that I’m in the after-effect processing stage of a breakup right now. And if you’ve seen any chick flick since the history of ever, you know that this is usually a pretty emotional time – one that’s also usually accompanied by enough sugar to make even my sweet tooth hurt.
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How to Get Results in Record Time
Last week I was driving one of our volunteers to the airport. His time here on the farm was done and he was flying down to Durham, NC to see some friends before returning home for Thanksgiving. Instead of flying out of Logan Airport in Boston, MA, as is typical for volunteers who didn't drive here, he chose to fly out of T.F. Green Airport in Rhode Island. Despite having grown up in Massachusetts, I have never actually been to Rhode Island before. The company vehicles aren't equipped with a GPS nor with maps, so we opted to print out directions to and from the airport on Google Maps.
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Taking Great Risks & Making Great Strides
Sometimes you gotta take a risk. It’s how you break past your comfort zone and into uncharted territory that has the potential to push you forward towards the result(s) you’ve been wanting. For a long, long time I’ve wanted to be in love with my body. I’ve wanted to be OK with the way that it looks and moves and is shaped. I’ve wanted to stop poring over magazines and wishing that I had “this woman’s thighs” or “that woman’s breasts.” That had to change.
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Food Freedom Course
This 28-day program will teach you how to toss the scale, stop counting calories, and stop dieting forever, all while getting the same great results you were always promised.
April 8, 2014
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No Diet Detox
This program will help you discover the blueprint for your healthy body. No more confusion, no more diet books, no more guessing at which foods are healthy and which foods are not.
April 8, 2014
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Hunger for Happiness
When you love yourself, when you love your body, you do what it takes to take care of yourself, to take care of your body. It all starts with one simple concept: Loving yourself and accepting yourself for who you are.
January 7, 2013
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Shannon Lagasse
When we judge ourselves as “good” or “bad,” we act accordingly.
“Good” and “bad” are judgments we impose upon food.
There are so many diet books out there, they can’t all possibly be right.
When we address the root of our problem instead of the resulting weight, we learn how to easily and effectively release fat from our body.
The best way to change the world is through YOU.
Change starts with awareness that something actually needs to be changed.
There are underlying emotions that are seeking expression and that are being expressed through the consumption of (or in the case of anorexics, the avoidance of) food.
By asking the right questions, I’m able to find answers, to find peace and clarity in the midst of emotional chaos.
No amount of potato chips is ever going to make me feel like enough.
Food is never going to make me a better person.
How can you create the body of your dreams if you haven’t even stopped to think of what that might look like?
We are not helping others by judging them. We are not helping others by focusing on their weight instead of focusing on their heart. Instead of looking at what’s going on the outside, let’s start taking a peek at what’s on the inside.
Contacting Shannon Lagasse
Phone: 603.490.4417
Email: shannon@hungerforhappiness.com
Website: www.HungerforHappiness.com
Online Courses: Food Freedom Course (www.FoodFreedomCourse.com) and No Diet Detox (www.NoDietDetox.com)
Facebook: www.facebook.com/hungerforhappiness
How to get started
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