Ep. #223: Your Inner Rebel & Freedom

Have you ever wondered why you aren’t doing the best things for yourself?

All humans have an inner rebel. Your inner rebel can work against your goals and dreams and the best things for yourself.

Your inner rebel is the part of your brain that resists rules, restriction, and external control.

It’s the part of your brain that wants to be in control.

When you start to think that you’re not in control or you feel restricted, your inner rebel can take over.

In today’s episode, I am going to teach you how to make peace with your inner rebel so that you can have real freedom in your mind and body.

In this episode…

≫[1:16] What is your inner rebel?

≫[3:01] Your inner rebel shows up in weight loss through the feeling of deprivation.

≫[3:49] All of us as humans want and crave freedom.

≫[4:18] It’s the thinking around deprivation that brings on the inner rebel.

≫[6:02] You have tied certain foods to “diet” foods.

≫[6:46] Psychological resistance.

≫[7:34] We think that doing this work of healing your relationship with food and changing beliefs and thoughts is hard.

≫[9:16] Loss aversion.

≫[10:49] What do you think that you will lose when you lose weight?

≫[12:22] If you’re numbing with food, you don’t have a lot of conscious thoughts of what’s really happening.

≫[13:53] Restriction does not work long term.