Shannon Lagasse
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Health & Happiness Coach, Emotional Eating Expert
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- Emotional Eating, Overeating, Food Addiction, Self-Esteem, Self-Love, Eating Disorders, Body Image
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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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Acceptance at Any Size
There are some health advocates I know out there who are extremely passionate about their cause, almost to a fault. Today, I read a post by one such person who said that “normal isn’t healthy” and that “plus-sized models are setting a bad example.” Being someone who has really appreciated the coming of models that represent the majority of women in the United States, this post kind of embarrassed me. For sure, being overweight isn’t the epitome of health, but neither is barraging yourself with disparaging comments about your weight or your dress size.
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Can We Cure Cancer For Good?
I got this in an email from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition today: “CBS News reported that a whopping 40% of all cancers are the result of lifestyle factors including: • poor diet • inactivity • stress • exposure to carcinogens like pollution and cigarette smoke That means that at least 40% of all cancer diagnoses could be prevented if people only knew what foods to eat and how to build awareness around their choices in life.”
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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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Are You Giving Away Your Power?
There is a huge problem in the U.S. and in the world: We are relying on other people to call all the shots for us. We highly regard our freedom, even fight for it, and yet we hand much of our power over to politicians, medical professionals, and gurus. We are looking to other people to give us the answers we already have. By searching outside of ourselves, we have created a culture that shuns personal responsibility and denies the wisdom of the inner voice.
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Not Shaving, No Makeup, and Throwing Traditional Beauty Out the Window
What would you do if you spent a year without the support of any beauty products? I don’t read the news. I stopped reading it when I realized that it was the primary source of incoming negativity in my life. Now I catch headlines at Yahoo when I log out of my email and through my Facebook newsfeed.
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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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5 Tips for Breaking the Breakup Binge Habit
It would seem that the hardest time to control ourselves around food is when we’re in the middle of a breakup. Does that sound about right? Your boyfriend dumps you (or maybe you dump him) and you’re wallowing around in your misery. Every song on the radio reminds you of some moment in time that you spent together. Walking around your apartment you practically hear his footsteps behind you. It’s a difficult time, for sure.
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Feeling Thin: Visualization as a Weight Loss Tool
Here’s something I found really interesting in my weight-loss journey: the times when I lost the most weight was when I thought of myself as a thin person. I literally found myself jogging or walking and felt like I was this thin person with an extra layer of padding, as if I was wearing a fat sack on my stomach. That allowed me to tap into the physical feelings of being thin, instead of just forcing myself to go through the motions of exercising and eating well to no avail.r
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Bad Food is a Myth
I’ve talked before about the idea that there is no such thing as a “good” or “bad” food. That “good” and “bad” imply moral reasoning, of which inanimate objects such as food have none. That “good” and “bad” is a judgment we impose upon food. That “good” and “bad” are subjective: I may consider almond milk ice cream to be “bad” because it has sugar in it and another may consider it “good” because it doesn’t have processed sugar and cream in it.r
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Not All Fats Are Created Equal
When I see someone post about how “not all fats are created equal”, I don’t just think about dietary fats; I think about BEING fat. There’s this stigma with being overweight that we just can’t seem to shake as a society. It’s all over the place, and I’m wondering, “When will enough be enough?”r
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Is the Inner You Different from the Outer You?
It would seem that we all have dual personalities. We have the person we show the world on a day-to-day basis and the person we are behind closed doors, when we’re alone, in the bedroom, intoxicated, or in any other event where we feel safe and/or significantly lower our inhibitions. This week the subject of alter egos came up at a dinner table conversation and invoked an internal dialogue, ‘Do I have an alter ego? And, if so, who is she?’ And after a decent amount of thought, experimentation, and jou aling, here’s who she is:r
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Who's the Person Sitting Next to You, Really?
Last night I got on an Amtrak train headed for New York from Atlanta, moving from my home in Georgia to the Omega Institute to start my job there. The train had sleeper cars, but the majority of passengers chose to ride the more economical coach class. As I was boarding the train, the conductor handed out tickets with seat numbers on it, as the train passes through multiple stops in multiple states. There was a woman sitting in my seat who refused to move. She refused to sit in her assigned seat in the row directly across the aisle because she didn’t want to sit next to someone else.r
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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
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