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 FREEDOM FROM EMOTIONAL AND BINGE EATING AND COMING HOME TO YOUR BODY

A compassionate nervous-system-based approach to healing your relationship with food, your body, and yourself.

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Are you tired of feeling trapped by emotional- and binge eating?

  

If you’ve spent years swinging between control and overwhelm…
trying to “fix” yourself…
feeling exhausted by food thoughts, shame, emotional eating, body struggles, or fear of losing control…

You are not alone.
And you are not failing.

For many people, emotional eating is not simply about food.

It is connected to stress, survival patterns, nervous system overwhelm, emotional disconnection, self-criticism, loneliness, pressure, and the deep exhaustion of constantly fighting yourself.

This work helps you move beyond willpower and harsh control, and toward greater self-trust, emotional resilience, embodied confidence, and peace around food.

 

Does any of the following apply to you?

  • You keep promising yourself “this time will be different,” but eventually fall back into old patterns
  • You feel trapped in cycles of overeating, binge eating, restriction, guilt, or shame
  • Food feels emotionally charged, obsessive, comforting, numbing, or hard to stop thinking about
  • You struggle with body shame, harsh self-criticism, or never feeling “good enough”
  • You feel exhausted from constantly trying to control yourself
  • You are highly capable in many areas of life, yet still feel stuck with food or your body
  • You use food to cope with stress, loneliness, overwhelm, anxiety, emptiness, or emotional exhaustion
  • You are on GLP-1 medication or had bariatric surgery and still feel emotionally vulnerable underneath
  • You fear regaining weight or slipping back into old coping patterns
  • You long to feel calmer, safer, and more at peace inside yourself

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Wy Traditional Approaches Often Don't Fully Work

Most approaches focus mainly on:

  • rules
  • discipline
  • meal plans
  • mindset
  • behavior change
  • pattern recognition
  • trying harder

Some of these tools can absolutely be helpful.

But many people are still missing a crucial piece:
the body and nervous system.

Because emotional eating is not always happening at a purely conscious level.

When the nervous system feels overwhelmed, unsafe, depleted, emotionally overloaded, disconnected, or stuck in survival mode…

Food can become: soothing, numbing, regulating, distracting, comforting or relieving

Insight in patterns alone is often not enough.

Many people already understand their patterns intellectually.
Yet in moments of stress, loneliness, exhaustion, anxiety, pressure, or emotional overwhelm, the body can still default to old protective coping strategies automatically.

That is why healing often requires more than changing thoughts or behaviours alone.

It can also involve learning how to:

  • feel safer in your body
  • regulate stress and emotions
  • reconnect with yourself
  • build self-trust
  • increase emotional capacity
  • respond with compassion instead of self-attack
  • create sustainable change from support rather than force

 

Why "Trying Harder" Usually Backfires

When we respond to emotional eating with:

  • stricter rules
  • more control
  • self-criticism
  • “I just need to be better”

our body experiences that as pressure, not care.

Pressure increases stress.
Stress increases urges.
Urges increase shame.

And the cycle continues.

 

 

Real and Lasting Change is Possible 

Without constant fighting, harsh control, or feeling deprived

Real change doesn’t start with more control.

It starts with safety.

When your nervous system feels calmer and more supported, a few things happen naturally:

  • cravings lose urgency
  • choices feel available again
  • food stops feeling so loaded

This isn’t about letting go and doing nothing.

It’s about learning to work with your body instead of against it.

 

A Different Path Forward

My work integrates:

  • nervous system healing
  • somatic and body-based approaches
  • emotional processing
  • mindfulness and self-compassion
  • interoception and body awareness
  • practical tools for regulation and resilience

Together, we work toward helping you:

  • feel more at peace around food
  • reduce shame and self-criticism
  • stop living in constant “all-or-nothing”
  • reconnect with your body with more safety and trust
  • build emotional resilience without relying on food alone
  • create sustainable change that feels supportive rather than punishing

Healing is not about becoming perfectly controlled. It is about no longer needing to fight yourself all the time.

The 5 Pillars of Lasting Healing 

Healing emotional eating and body struggles often requires more than changing food behaviours alone.

True healing tends to involve multiple layers of support working together.

Over the years, working with clients and learning about neurobiology, survival parts, and the connection with food, body and development, I identified five interconnected pillars that are essential to move through for lasting transformation:

Pillar 1 - Nervous System Regulation

Learning how to move out of chronic survival mode and create more safety, flexibility, and calm within your body.

Because lasting change becomes much harder when the body is stuck in stress, overwhelm, shutdown, or constant self-protection.

Pillar 2 - Expanding Emotional Capacity & Self-Compassion

Building the ability to stay present with emotions, needs, vulnerability, and discomfort without immediately turning against yourself or needing food to carry it alone.

Healing includes learning how to respond to yourself with greater kindness, honesty, and support.

Pillar 3 - Reconnecting With the Body

Developing interoception, body awareness, and trust in your internal signals rather than living disconnected, numb, hyper-controlling, or at war with your body.

Your body is not the enemy.

Pillar 4 - Repatterning Patterns & Protective Strategies

Exploring the deeper patterns underneath emotional eating, perfectionism, shame, people-pleasing, over-control, or self-abandonment with compassion rather than blame.

Many coping patterns began as attempts to survive, soothe, adapt, or feel safe.

Pillar 5 - Sustainable Change & Self-Trust

Creating practical, supportive, sustainable shifts rooted in self-trust rather than fear, punishment, urgency, or all-or-nothing cycles.

Healing is not about perfection.
It is about building a different relationship with yourself over time.

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  • How to recognize different types of hunger.
  • How to tune into your hunger and fullness cues.
  • How to understand the bigger picture behind your eating patterns.

This Quick Start Guide is designed to help you gain clarity, take meaningful action, and begin transforming your relationship with food today.

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My name is Nadine Jans

I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor in British Columbia, Canada, a psychologist in the Netherlands, and a coach specializing in emotional eating, body shame, nervous system healing, and embodied self-trust.

For over 20 years, I have supported people in navigating emotional struggles, stress, overwhelm, caregiving, body image challenges, and difficult relationships with food and themselves. I continue to deepen my work through ongoing learning in neuroscience, psychology, somatic approaches, and nervous system healing.

This work is also deeply personal to me.

I know what it feels like to struggle with anxiety, shame, depression, emotional overwhelm, self-criticism, and emotional eating. I know how exhausting it can be to feel trapped in cycles that seem difficult to change... even when you are trying very hard.

Through both professional training and personal healing, I discovered that lasting change often requires more than insight, willpower, or self-control alone.

It also involves learning how to reconnect with the body, create more emotional safety, build nervous system resilience, and relate to ourselves with greater compassion and support.

That understanding became the foundation of my work.

My approach combines nervous-system-informed tools, emotional healing, mindfulness, somatic practices, and compassionate guidance to help people move toward greater peace with food, their body, and themselves.

I believe you deserve to feel more at home within yourself and more grounded, connected and more supported in your own life and body.

And I believe healing becomes possible when we stop fighting ourselves and begin listening with greater compassion and care.

 I am a certified brainspotting therapist, eating disorder and body image therapist, dementia consultant and psychologist in the Netherlands (NIP #133644).

 

 

 

The group provided a safe and supportive place to explore my feelings and get a better understanding of myself. It helped me to stop looking at myself as self sabotaging and rather rather look for deeper meanings behind my thoughts/actions and how they are trying to help me. I learnt a lot about my current thought patterns as well as realizing the impact of previous habits on my current self. 

 

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I have ADHD and would often binge at night, mostly because I didn't eat all day; getting techniques to regulate my nervous system has made a huge difference.  I also gained a new perspective on my body, wanting to care of myself instead of feeling like it is a waste of time.  I hardly binge these days. This is a big deal for me. 

 
Client

I feel more confident in most aspects of my life, more connected with others, and overall more accepting of myself. Nadine made it feel so safe and comfortable, and being able to share with the group and to hear that others' experience is so similar to mine was really comforting.

 
Client

Heal your relationship with food and your body, shed what no longer serves you, and feel lighter and more confident while living fully!

 

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This practice is committed to offering a welcoming, respectful, and affirming space for 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC individuals. I approach my work with awareness of systemic oppression, cultural context, and the ways these shape nervous system health, embodiment, and healing.

I respectfully acknowledge that I live and work on the unceded traditional territory of the Kwikwetlem First Nation, within the shared territories of the Tsleil-Waututh, Katzie, Musqueam, Squamish, and StĂł:lĹŤ Nations. I honour the Indigenous peoples who have stewarded this land since time immemorial.