Emotional Eats Podcast: Real conversations about menopause, hormones, emotional eating, and weight loss for women over 40

You finally sit down at the end of the day. You put your feet up, turn on Netflix, scroll on your phone, grab the ice cream and tell yourself you're resting.
But are you actually resting?
In this episode of the Emotional Eats Podcast, I'm talking with my friend and yoga therapist Cheryl Gordon about non-sleep deep rest, or NSDR, and why so many of us may be going through our days without giving our nervous systems the recovery they actually need.
Cheryl explains what NSDR is, how it differs from sleep, napping and meditation.  We talk about why scrolling your phone or watching TV may feel relaxing, but doesn't give your nervous system the same kind of rest. We also talk about that familiar afternoon crash when your energy drops, your brain feels fried, and suddenly the pantry starts looking really good.
Highlights:
• Why stopping work isn't necessarily the same as resting
• What happens when your nervous system stays overstimulated
• Why the afternoon slump can make emotional eating more tempting
• How rest can support clearer thinking and better decisions around food
• How little time you may actually need to intentionally pause and recharge
And Cheryl doesn't just tell us how to do it. She leads us through a simple three-minute breathing practice right in the middle of the episode that you can come back to anytime you need it.
If you keep telling yourself, "I'm too busy to rest," this conversation may change the way you think about rest completely.
Because sometimes you don't need to push harder.  You need to recharge.
And that trip to the pantry isn't just about the food.
ABOUT CHERYL GORDON
Cheryl is a yoga therapist who helps midlife women learn how to regulate their nervous systems so they can lose weight, sleep better and feel more at peace in their bodies again.
CONNECT WITH CHERYL
 
IG:  https://www.instagram.com/cherylgordonyt/
YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@cherylgordonmindfulmenopause
Substack:  https://cherylgordonyt.substack.com
Website:  www.cherylgordonyt.com
 
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In my More Than Weight Loss Guide, I share my biggest aha moments and exactly what I did in my own journey to get my body back in midlife plus all the conversations I'm having with my clients who are making progress with their health and weight loss. Your health is so much more than the number on the scale and weight loss is more than a diet.
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Disclaimer:  This podcast is for entertainment and informational purposes only.  Always consult with your medical practitioner before changing habits.  This podcast is not to take the place of medical or mental health professionals.
If you enjoyed the episode, share, download and follow.  I would be so grateful.  It helps me reach more women who need to hear this conversation.

In my More Than Weight Loss Guide, I share my biggest aha moments and exactly what I did in my own journey to get my body back in midlife and all the conversations I'm having with my clients who are making progress with their health and weight loss. Your health is so much more than the number on the scale and weight loss is more than a diet.
https://stan.store/emotionaleatskim/p/get-my-more-than-weightloss-guide-now
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
What if food isn't the biggest thing you're carrying?
Maybe you've spent decades being the good daughter, wife, mom, employee, friend and caretaker. You're the responsible one. The strong one. The one everybody knows will handle it.
But carrying all of that comes at a cost.  To your physical and emotional health.
In this episode of Emotional Eats Podcast, I'm talking about the connection between people-pleasing, perfectionism, emotional exhaustion and food.
We'll talk about:
• Why high-functioning women can still feel completely out of control with food
• How people-pleasing and perfectionism can quietly drain you
• Why food can become your escape, reward or rebellion at the end of the day
• What your "screw it" moment may actually be trying to tell you
• Practical ways to carry less, choose yourself more and stop making food your only source of relief
You cannot out-diet emotional eating. If food is doing a job for you, we need to understand the job.
Maybe healing your relationship with food isn't only about changing how you eat.
Maybe it's also about asking, "What could I stop carrying?"
If you know another woman who is always the strong one, always taking care of everyone else and struggling with food behind the scenes, please share this episode with her.
And make sure you follow Emotional Eats Podcast so you don't miss upcoming episodes about emotional eating, menopause, body image, hormones and creating a healthier relationship with food and yourself.
Connect with Kim:
You want to lose weight, but what if you could get so much more? Stop the emotional eating cycle, take control of your midlife health, and finally feel confident in your body. More Than Weight Loss connects the dots you've been missing, with practical steps you can start using TODAY. No more guessing. No more starting over.
Click here to get your More Than Weight Loss guide!
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Disclaimer:  This podcast is for entertainment and informational purposes only.  Always consult with your medical practitioner before changing habits.  This podcast is not to take the place of medical or mental health professionals.

Welcome to the Emotional Eats Podcast!
What are you waiting for before you really start living?  What are you putting off?
Listen in for the encouragement you need to just move forward and live your life fully.
This episode hit me hard.  As someone who waits too often for the perfect moment and who teaches others to stop waiting, Jim has helped me reframe what it means to live in the moment and on purpose.
James Logan, entrepreneur, endurance athlete, husband, father, and author of Just Keep Tri-ing, shares how a stage 4 terminal cancer diagnosis changed the way he sees life, suffering, faith, fear, and the time we think we have.
We talk about the difference between resilience and complacency, why avoiding discomfort may actually make life harder, and what happens when you stop waiting for the right body, more money, retirement, or life to finally calm down before allowing yourself to live.
Jim also shares what he's learned about finding joy while life is still hard, surrendering what you can't control, and why facing death ultimately taught him how to live.  We are all dying, but what are we doing while we're living?
This is not just a conversation about being terminally ill, but more about how to truly live a purposeful and intentional life…now.
Follow the Emotional Eats Podcast and share this episode with someone who needs the reminder that life isn't something we have to keep waiting for.
About James
James has been battling stage 4 cancer since April 2024. He was given 6 months maybe 2 years to live. Two and a half years later, he is still alive and thriving thanks to faith and fitness! He wrote a book titled  "Just Keep TRI-ING", a number 1 Amazon bestseller in three categories: Cancer, Triathlon and Spiritual Growth! "Just Keep TRI-ING" is also being considered for a 2027 Pulitzer Prize in the memoir genre.
 
James is currently training for the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona Hawaii October 10 2026. He is raising funds for the IRONMAN Foundation; profits from my book go to the foundation until the fundraising goal of $100,000.00 is achieved!  See link below to support James.
 
James believes if you have faith, you have hope; if you have hope, Anything Is Possible! He dedicated the remainder of his life to service and charity.
 
Please share James' story with a friend.
Connect With James J Logan
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stage42025/
 
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/jim.logan.462536
 
Support James here:  https://ironmanfoundation.donordrive.com/participants/4148
 
If This Episode Resonated With You
Please follow the Emotional Eats Podcast, download this episode, and share it with a woman in your life who struggles silently with food, body image, binge eating, or emotional eating. These conversations matter.
Connect With Kim:
Feeling Stuck?  If you feel like weight loss has become harder with emotional eating, stress, and changing hormones, the MORE THAN WEIGHTLOSS guide  will help you understand what's really getting in the way and exactly what to do about it.
https://stan.store/kimhyneswellness/p/get-my-more-than-weightloss-guide-now
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/kimhyneswellness/
TikTok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@kimhyneswellness
YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@kimhyneswellness
 
Disclaimer:  This podcast is for entertainment and informational purposes only.  Always consult with your medical practitioner before changing habits.  This podcast is not to take the place of medical or mental health professionals.

Feeling Stuck?  If you feel like weight loss has become harder over 40 with emotional eating, stress, and changing hormones, the MORE THAN WEIGHTLOSS guide  will teach what's really getting in the way and exactly what to do about it. 
Click here for access:  https://stan.store/kimhyneswellness/p/get-my-more-than-weightloss-guide-now
THIS WEEK'S EPISODE
Food does make you feel better.  We know and there is science behind what it does in the brain.
That may sound strange coming from me because I say all the time that emotional eating isn't really about the food. But if chocolate, chips, peanut butter, ice cream, or whatever you reach for didn't give you something, you probably wouldn't keep going back to it.  Right?
In this solo episode of Emotional Eats Podcast, we're looking at what happens before you reach for food, what you're hoping to get from it, and what's there when the food is gone.
I explain the difference between physical hunger, emotional eating, and simply eating for pleasure. Because enjoying chocolate, birthday cake, or popcorn at the movies doesn't automatically mean you're emotionally eating.
We'll talk about:
• Why emotional eating can feel so urgent and automatic
• The "job" you may be asking food to do
• How shame and guilt keep the emotional eating cycle going
• My emotional receipt exercise to help you understand what you actually needed
I'll also share more of my own story with peanut butter cups, sugar, secret eating, and believing that if I could just control the food, I could solve the problem.
This isn't about taking away your chocolate.
It's about recognizing when you're asking food to give you something it simply can't provide, like rest, connection, boundaries, or resolution to something that's bothering you.
You don't need another diet or another list of foods you can't keep in the house. You need to understand what the food is doing for you.
If this episode helps you understand your emotional eating with a little less shame, please follow Emotional Eats Podcast and share it with a friend who needs this conversation too.
Connect with Kim:
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/kimhyneswellness/
TikTok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@kimhyneswellness
YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@kimhyneswellness
Want to improve your midlife focus or sleep?  Check out Brain.fm.  This app has help me be more productive, get the best afternoon powernaps and bring down my nervous system….fast.  Get 30 days for free here.
 https://www.brain.fm/kimhyneshealth
 
Disclaimer:  This podcast is for entertainment and informational purposes only.  Always consult with your medical practitioner before changing habits.  This podcast is not to take the place of medical or mental health professionals.
If you enjoyed the episode, share, download and follow.  I would be so grateful.  It helps me reach more women who need to hear this conversation.

You have spent decades trying to change your body, believing that once you did, you'd finally feel better about yourself and somehow, life would feel happier too.
Maybe you've dieted for decades. You've picked apart certain parts of your body. You've compared yourself to other women. And somewhere along the way, you started believing that changing your body would finally change everything.
Anne Poirier is back on the Emotional Eats Podcast after our first powerful conversation in Episode 151. I thought the first was deep, but this time we're going deeper.
What does it actually mean to heal your relationship with your body?
Because healing doesn't necessarily mean looking in the mirror every morning and loving everything you see. It may mean learning to trust your body again, quieting the voice that constantly criticizes it, and taking care of yourself without punishment, perfectionism, or another diet.
Anne and I also talk about something I know can feel complicated. What if you want to stop dieting, but you still want your body to change? Can those two things exist at the same time?
In this conversation, we talk about:
What healing your relationship with your body actually looks like in everyday life
How decades of dieting can disconnect you from your body and its signals
Why the inner critic can be so hard to quiet
Wanting your body to change without going back to dieting and punishment
How social media, GLP-1s, AI, and our changing culture are affecting body image
Moving your body from a place of joy instead of trying to earn food or change your size
If you've spent years telling yourself, "I'll feel better when I lose the weight," this conversation may give you a very different way to think about your body, your health, and what it means to finally stop waiting to live your life.
Make sure you go back and listen to Anne's first interview. Episode 151
 
About Anne Poirier
Anne Poirier is a nationally recognized body image expert, certified intuitive eating counselor, and author of The Body Joyful: My Journey from Self-Loathing to Self-Acceptance. And, out Fall of 2026 the 2nd Edition of The Body Joyful; Beyond Self acceptance- The path to living a life of peace, presence and purpose. With a degree in Exercise Science and over 30 years in health and wellness, Anne has turned her own recovery from eating disorders and body shame into a mission to help others find freedom and peace with food, movement, and themselves.

Anne has become a leading voice in the body neutrality movement, helping people find peace with food, movement, and themselves. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Women's Health, Shape, and NPR.
Connect With Anne
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anne.poirier.author/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annepoirier11author/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-poirier-72b66344/
Website:  https://shapingperspectives.com/
 
Get Anne's book HERE:  https://www.amazon.com/Body-Joyful-2nd-Self-Acceptance-Presence-ebook/dp/B0HHL8G9PD/ref=sr_1_1?
Connect with Kim:
Feeling Stuck?  If you feel like weight loss has become harder with emotional eating, stress, and changing hormones, the MORE THAN WEIGHTLOSS guide  will help you understand what's really getting in the way and exactly what to do about it. 
Click here for access:
https://stan.store/kimhyneswellness/p/get-my-more-than-weightloss-guide-now
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/kimhyneswellness/
TikTok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@kimhyneswellness
YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@kimhyneswellness
Want to improve your midlife focus or sleep?  Check out Brain.fm.  This app has help me be more productive, get the best afternoon powernaps and bring down my nervous system….fast.  Get 30 days for free here.
 https://www.brain.fm/kimhyneshealth
Disclaimer:  This podcast is for entertainment and informational purposes only.  Always consult with your medical practitioner before changing habits.  This podcast is not to take the place of medical or mental health professionals.
If you enjoyed the episode, share, download and follow.  I would be so grateful.  It helps me reach more women who need to hear this conversation.