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Heal Overeating

“I have never read, in any forum, anyone as insightful as you on food issues
— not from any number of experts with degrees, nor from books or other sites.” – Shelly M.
Karly Randolph-Pitman describes the Heal Overeating program


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Soulful self-care heals Overeating

If you are in a painful pattern of overeating, this support program can help you break free. A long-time overeater, binger, sugar addict, and busy mother of four, I expect I know just how you feel…

Embarrassed by overeating binges? Tired of losing and gaining weight? Ready for a change?

I created this Heal Overeating Support Program to help you:

Heal Overeating program
A new, no-diet program
by Karly Randolph-Pitman
  • Break free from the binge / diet cycle.
  • Feel your feelings without overeating.
  • Quiet self sabotage.
  • Stop obsessing about food & weight.

You receive 52 lessons, organized as a year long healing transition. Each week you’ll get:

1. Insights on a particular component of overcoming overeating. We’ll explore mind-body-spirit principles like honesty, boundaries, grounding, compassion, and mindfulness to see where your eating is off-kilter.

2. An audio led journaling or visualization exercise to uncover your thoughts, beliefs and behavior patterns. Journaling your answers will help you uncover your stuck points.

3. A plan to practice that week’s lesson. You won’t just be studying how to overcome overeating, or reading about it, but actually doing it.

4. A guided ritual to cement the work into your deepest being. Rituals make this journey meaningful and tie it to your spirituality, whatever your spiritual practice.They also make it fun.

5. Support. Talk with other women on the program in the private forums so that you get the support you need to change.
Frequently Asked Questions | What’s included

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“Karly’s approach to healing the hungry child within me is so powerful that I can feel myself actually becoming stronger. I’m no longer trying to cheat myself into thinking I’m getting what I deserve by eating whatever I want and then some, just because I can. Sure, I trip up. A lot. Actually, every day is a struggle, but I can forgive myself for falling and move on to try again. Thanks to the life experiences Karly has shared, I know that I’m important and worthwhile and that there’s a better way to take care of me. And I’m the one to do it.

I’m finally on the path to healing. Your words and dedication to help are truly a god-send.”
-Joetta, New England

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is overeating? How is that different than binge eating?

A: Bingeing is a form of overeating, when you overeat large amounts of food in one sitting. Overeating is eating more food than your body needs for physical nourishment. It’s using food not as fuel, but as your comfort and stress relief. It’s using food to fill emotional or unmet needs.

Q: How do I know if the course is for me?

A: If you’re someone who struggles with overeating and wants a nurturing, supportive environment with practical tools, than this program is for you. If you want the support of others without attending a 12 step program, this program is an alternative.

If you are a spiritual seeker, crave personal growth, and if you enjoy learning about yourself, this is for you. Want to learn how to deepen your intuition, how to trust and listen to yourself, and how to live more mindfully in the present? Get ready.

If you are intuitive, sensitive, empathetic, and a nurturer – someone who cares for others or who is in a healing profession – my program will be an excellent fit for you. My workshops are filled with life coaches, healers, moms, nurses, caregivers, empaths and highly spiritual women. You will learn how to honor your sensitivity without using food.

If you want a diet plan, food lists, an exercise plan, or information about supplements, my program is not for you. This program does not tell you what to do each day. It doesn’t offer advice on calories or what food plan to follow.

If you’re uncomfortable with spirituality, my program will probably make you uncomfortable. I don’t endorse any particular spiritual path or religious practice, but a willingness to explore concepts of soul and spirit are significant in this program. If this is offensive to you, you probably won’t like what I have to say.

My approach is about much more than food. The program aims to help you create a nourishing life, not just stop the habit of overeating. Its a soulful journey with practical applications in your daily life – an integrative approach that honors your physical, mental, and emotional needs.

My program appeals to women who are tired of reading every diet book that comes along, who want to learn how to listen to their own internal wisdom. If you are tired of dieting, if you are tired of all the countless approaches that haven’t worked, if you want to learn to trust yourself, this program can help.

Q: What’s common between the sugar addiction program and this overeating program?

This Heal Overeating program, like the sugar addiction program, will teach you how to honor and meet your deep, underlying needs so that you don’t need to turn to food.

In both programs, mind-body-spirit tools help you meet your needs and allow your feelings to flow. You can uproot the false beliefs that have kept you from meeting your needs and honoring your feelings. You learn tools  to stop overeating and sugar bingeing at the root.

The sugar program is designed for a 12 week transition period, during or after which many people start to abstain from or limit their intake of sugar.

You can’t abstain from food. You have to eat everyday. Therefore, food can be a bigger, more primal emotional hurdle than a specific sensitivity to sugar. It’s potentially a BIGGER PROBLEM.

This program is comprehensive, and intended for a gradual, gentle transformation in your relationship to food. It doesn’t focus on abstinence as a goal as the sugar program does. It helps you stop eating compulsively – whether you’re overeating almonds or ice cream.

Q: What’s the optimal time to start this healing program? I feel busy now, am feeling discouraged from all the other programs that I’ve tried and that haven’t worked, and I’m not sure that I can change…

A: The course takes you through one tool, one step, per week – however you take the course at your own pace. With each week, you’ll gain clarity into your habits and tools to help change. You start the course at any time – no matter where you are. You can go back to previous weeks at any time. As you work through the material, you will be able to gradually work through your overeating.

Feeling like, “I can’t change!” is often from the frustration of years of dieting. My program is not a diet.

Dieting is about trying to get yourself to “shape up.” It is motivated by fear, disgust (I am such a fat cow!), or a belief that you are flawed and unworthy. You are fighting against yourself, which eventually backfires. When you’re on a diet, your inner tyrant – the voice that tells you, “You should eat healthier!” – is in charge. You resist this voice, and eventually rebel – which is when diets fail. You say forget the diet, throw your hands up in the air, and let your inner rebel run the show – eating whatever you want. You overindulge until you get fed up with your overeating or your flab, and then you start the cycle anew. Pain, pain, pain.

By contrast, healing from overeating is about removing suffering. It is motivated by love. It is not about forcing yourself to “shape up,” but about loving yourself up so that you feel safe and ready to change. It is about living this paradox: accepting yourself as you are and working towards change. I will gently guide you through this process – and I promise, it will even be fun.

Q: Will you tell me what to eat?

A: No. You’ll learn to listen to your body, to understand what foods trigger cravings and compulsive eating and what foods don’t. You can listen to what works for me, and what works for others in our Support Forum. But this journey is an individual process. You make healthy food choices for your unique lifestyle, body and needs. This is where true power comes from: learning to trust yourself.

Q: Does this involve supplements, minerals, or vitamins?

A: Not as part of this program, but you may find some supplements helpful to your overall well-being. This is not a source for information about magnesium, chromium, l-glutamine, potassium, peppermint, or any of the dozens of other ideas people have about what might help them with overeating. In fact, this program’s approach introduces a perspective that you may find eye-opening in its focus on the internal chatter in your head, or understanding how minimizing your needs send you straight to the food.

Q: Can I participate in this program while doing Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, or another weight loss program?

A: Yes. We’ll explore how you use food to meet your needs and then give you tools to find healthy alternatives. These self-care skills will help you stay committed to a weight loss program. They compliment each other.

Q: Can I do this program while seeing a counselor?

A: Yes. Look at this as one piece of your self-care puzzle, one of the many ways that you love and support yourself. It’s all about handling food in a healthy way. Gather all the tools that are helpful to you.

I’ve used a combination of yoga, therapy, spiritual study, and prayer/meditation to find healing from overeating. They are still a large component of my life.

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Q: How is this different than the Support Forum?

A: The Support Forum is included with this program and is designed to give you extra support.

While you’ll learn skills to thrive without emotional overeating, one benefit of this program is gaining support from others in the forums. Relax in the understanding of other women who are going through the same thing. Share your victories and progress. Get help when you’re struggling. You can also ask questions of Karly.

Q: How is my privacy protected?

A: We never, ever share, rent, or sell your contact information (your email, phone number, address, etc.) What you may share in the forums need never be identified with you, ensuring privacy so that everyone feels safe during what can feel like a vulnerable transition.

Q: I’ve tried to stop overeating many times. Will I learn anything?

A: Knowledge doesn’t always translate into action. Each week, we give you tools and also a way to practice that tool. You’ll be able to move from thinking about changing to actually doing change.

Transforming your relationship with food is a process. Having tried to quit before, you’ll understand the challenges in avoiding the binge cycle. You may be afraid that you’ll revert to old habits. This program can help you overcome that fear and embrace your journey.

We’ll help you embrace this journey as a spiritual practice – a process that invites curiosity, growth, and joy. When you are changing for the delight of change itself, when you are healing to experience the healing itself, the journey becomes as fulfilling as the “goal-” arriving at that place where you no longer obsess about food, your body, or eat food compulsively.

Q: I’m a beginner. Will this help me?

A: Yes. We all start where we are. Enjoy the loving support from a program that can make the challenge of changing your eating habits an easier task.

One of the fallacies of change is that we believe that we have to have all the answers, up front, before we begin. This keeps us from changing because we are working to find all the answers before we move forward – something that doesn’t exist. You don’t have to know how it will all unfold. In fact, it’s impossible to even know how it will unfold, because the journey itself – your willingness to grow – is what transforms you.

Your job is to be willing. To begin. To show up, do the work, and trust that if you are willing to show up, if you are willing to dig and let go and uncover what is holding you in food, that the healing will come.

Q: I’m afraid to begin. Help!

A: This is normal. We all feel fear. We think that fear is a sign that we shouldn’t begin, when it’s a normal reaction to dancing on our edge.

This is because change feels scary. We have an entire section of the course devoted to helping you adjust to and cope with the change process. That’s also why this course is gradual and covers a full year.

If you want to begin, but are afraid of changing everything all at once, be assured that you will change at the pace that feels right for you. Think of yourself like a child learning to ride a bike: you’ll take the training wheels off when you’re ready. My overeating program is tailored to you in a variety of ways. First, you set the pace: you decide how quickly or how slowly you proceed. Second, I encourage you to personalize the program to your needs – to return to previous lessons if you’re struggling, to omit lessons that don’t resonate with you, or to spend extra weeks on a lesson that is especially pertinent.

One of my favorite spiritual expressions is, “You are right where you need to be.” This phrase honors the paradox of moving towards mastery even as you acknowledge the place where you are as perfect – as teaching you whatever you need to learn right now.

Q: Are there any food lists or eating requirements?

A: No. We may share meal ideas, recipes, or ways of eating, but you’ll learn how to care for your body rather than follow a diet.

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Q: What is Karly’s expertise?

A: I’ve been an emotional eater for most of my life. As a child, I ate to comfort myself, even though I wasn’t cognizant of this habit at the time. My late teens and early 20s were spent in the throes of bulimia, compulsive eating, sugar addiction, and a negative body image. Then, I spent over a decade alternating between overeating and being a neurotic health nut. The lessons I learned in healing from all of my food “stuff” are what I share in my program.

Having been in your shoes, and having used food for every conceivable reason, I understand how hard it is to break free from food. I also understand how you can overcome it.

Q: Do you offer medical support?

A: No. I am not a medical expert, doctor or nutritionist and do not offer medical advice. I advise you to consult your doctor, a nutritionist, or other health professional if you have medical questions. If you need additional counseling or one on one support, I recommend seeking out a counselor, life coach or therapist. I do not offer those services.

Q: What if I decide that it’s not for me?

A: If you decide it’s not for you, you are welcome to pause the program. Maybe you come back to it later and start again. Still not a good match? We guarantee your 100% satisfaction, so simply contact us here.

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More about Karly:

Karly Randolph-Pitman, Author

Karly Randolph Pitman is a writer, inspirational speaker, mom of 4, and the founder of the First Ourselves community. She uses mind-body-spirit concepts to help women heal from body image and food issues.

Karly struggled with overeating, a negative body image and sugar addiction for decades. As a sensitive, intuitive, spiritual seeker, she felt worthless for struggling with food.

Yet it was her spiritual seeking that led her to peace. By reconnecting with her spirituality, she was able to break free from the trance of overeating, sugar and the quest for the perfect body.

Karly is the author of the books Heal Your Body Image and Overcoming Sugar Addiction, as well as the Control Your Sugar Cravings Support Program and Heal Overeating Support Program.

She has appeared in dozens of TV, radio, and podcast interviews, including ABC, KGO, the largest talk radio station in the country, and What Really Matters, the most popular parenting podcast on iTunes. Featured on Yahoo!’s home page, on Yahoo! Shine, Beliefnet and on top 100 blogs, her insights have helped thousands transform their relationship with food. Karly’s passions include yoga, reading, poetry, the outdoors, beauty, music, fashion and dance. When she’s not traveling or speaking, she lives with her family in Montana.

This program can help you:

  • stop overeating and compulsive bingeing
  • make self-care a part of your daily life
  • break free from the diet mentality
  • manage your emotions without food
  • step out of the overeating trance
  • break free from perfectionism and control
  • find joy and pleasure in food while abstaining from binge triggers
  • put yourself first
  • reconnect with or deepen your spirituality

Overeating is an opportunity.

Overeating is not a character flaw. It is not a sign that you are a despicable, horrible person.

Overeating is simply a sign that something is out of whack. Overeating means that you have a need that isn’t being met or you have a feeling that needs to be felt. The pull to overeat is an invitation to feel your feelings and meet your needs.

When you learn how to meet your needs and honor your feelings, your desire to overeat lessens. You step out of the trance and find that all is well – without the food.

One part of this process is uncovering and healing the false beliefs that keep you stuck, feeling powerless or unworthy. As you heal these false beliefs, you feel your innate worthiness. This gives you a sense of personal power – which translates into creating a life that nourishes you.

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More about our approach to overeating:

  1. Overeating is a helpful gift, not a disease to be controlled. Some speak of overeating as a disease. I view overeating as a coping strategy that has become compulsive and painful. Overeating is a sign that either you have an unmet need that needs to be filled or that you have a feeling that needs to be felt. Welcome these opportunities because they are doorways to healing: a way to focus your attention on whatever needs healing and acceptance in your life. Your food issues are a blessing: how you uproot the untruths, hidden feelings and false beliefs that keep you in suffering.
  2. The journey is more important than results. While healing from overeating is gratifying and life changing, it’s greater power lies in the transformation that occurs in facing your overeating. Who you become by diving into your overeating will transform not only your relationship with food, but also your relationship with yourself. In the end, the food itself doesn’t matter: it’s simply the pathway to change.
  3. Balance loving discipline with gentle nurturing. Our bodies need a combination of discipline and nurturing to thrive. Just as we parent our children with a combination of limits and love, so it is with ourselves. Limits and love – while they seem to be opposites – are the two essential components of self-care. You find the balance of these two polarities by listening to your body, and by listening to your intuition/higher self – the source of wisdom and inspired action. The challenge for serial dieters and overeaters is that we have been listening to our inner rebel (I can eat whatever I want!) or our inner tyrant (Stop eating so much junk! Bad girl!) We need to soften these voices and learn to heed the voice of wisdom, our higher self.
  4. Honor your needs and feelings to stop the drive to overeat. Our mission at First Ourselves is to help you create a nourishing life on all fronts – physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. The challenge for overeaters is that we have hooked onto food as the pathway for meeting our needs. It’s our “go to” whenever we need support. I’ll help you break out of that pathway and establish alternative routes that don’t involve food. We explore nurturing, grounding, boundary setting, and more to help you create a nourishing life.
  5. Remove the stumbling blocks. Underneath your overeating are false beliefs that lead you to food. For example, you may have a hard time asking for support – which causes you to feel unsupported, like you don’t have what you need. These feelings then lead you to baby yourself with food. We’ll help you uproot these false beliefs so you aren’t following their slippery slope into overeating.
  6. Balance your spiritual and physical needs. As we are human beings with a body and a spirit, we need to balance our physical and spiritual needs to thrive. (Have you ever known someone who is very spiritually aware, and yet ungrounded or negligent in caring for themselves? By contrast, you may know people who take excellent care of their physical bodies, yet are spiritually hurting.) To heal from overeating, you need to honor your spiritual needs – to connect with source, to feel the healing balm of unconditional love. You also need to honor your physical needs by caring for your physical, human body. A spiritual approach to overeating doesn’t imply that you just bask in love – I’ll show you how to live it, embody it and apply it to the challenge of overeating.
  7. Cravings are actually helpful. The desire to overeat is a helpful sign – it’s pointing out an unmet need or signaling a blocked feeling. Instead of fearing or trying to control food cravings, we can turn towards them. By listening to our cravings, we can uncover the unmet need. This softens our cravings and makes the desire for food dissipate, as the true, deep need is met. Instead of fearing food or trying to control every possible food temptation (something that will make you neurotic, rigid and as obsessed about food as when you’re overeating), we learn to relax around food – and life.
  8. Practical spirituality is how you honor your body and your spirit. My program is a spiritual plan with practical tools you can use in your daily life to change your relationship with food. I’ll help you reconnect with your higher self, the seat of unconditional love, acceptance, wisdom, and your deepest values. I’ll also help you reconnect with your human body and its needs, feelings, and strengths. This powerful combination makes you present to life on both planes – the spiritual and the physical. As you listen to your higher self, you honor your deep true needs and feelings, you are able to change your overeating patterns. Your desire to overeat is replaced by a desire to feel fully alive – even the hard parts.
  9. Willpower is not the solution: love is the motivation to change. I’ll help you align your desire for health, peace, and wholeness with your daily behavior – the way that you treat and honor your body. You won’t be forcing yourself to eat differently. You will be choosing to eat differently. You’ll be motivated by love – the love you have for yourself, for others, and the love you feel from source. This love will free you not just from food issues, but from the pain that keeps you feeling isolated, unworthy, and alone. More than just removing the suffering of overeating, you will expand your capacity for joy. Your life takes on new meaning as it becomes a living prayer: a homily to the unique, wonderful, loving, worthy being that is you.
  10. Separate your self-worth from your eating habits. It’s easy to label yourself as a food addict, an overeater, or someone with an eating disorder, and shape your identity around someone who has food issues. But you are not your habits. You are not what you eat. You can set loving boundaries on your eating – perhaps this will mean eliminating some foods from your diet, or eating some foods in moderation – while also accepting your greater worth: that your value doesn’t go up and down with the scale, what you eat, or with how “good” you are.
  11. Overeating is not a character flaw. Overeaters Anonymous talks about “defects of character.” But I don’t think this is useful. I believe we overeat not from character defects but from a lack of coping strategies. This is important, because when we focus on overeating as a character defect, then we beat ourselves up for being flawed. Many of our challenges with food have to do with skills. For example, are we able to embrace uncomfortable emotions instead of soothing ourselves with food? So one component of our support programs is giving you tools to change your patterns of self-care, to give you these skills, so that you no longer want or need to overeat to thrive.
  12. Recognize that being cured is not the same thing as perfection. Making peace with food doesn’t mean that you’ll never use food for comfort, or that you’ll never overeat, or that you’ll never try and diet your way out of your problems. Yes, the frequency of these behaviors will decrease, but more importantly, as you love and accept yourself, your judgment of these slip-ups lessens. You’re able to accept yourself when you are less then perfect, and get back on track more quickly with behaviors that are more supportive.

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What other women are saying

“The information you impart is presented in such a down-to-earth, ‘homey’ way that I feel as though you are someone living here with me and giving me the benefit of your advice in a tone and in terms that I can relate to and want to hear.”
- Martin T., Australia

“You reminded me how valuable I was, how important preparation is and you gave me a brilliant suggestion on what to do in the face of temptation…You know a sign of a good piece of work is when you think about it again, days after you’ve experienced it the first time. And I’ve thought about it quite a bit. Great job!”
- Caitlin D.

“I just wanted to write you a note of gratitude. Your knowledge and giving of yourself is a blessing to all of us…I am without sugar since May 2009. I am leaning towards letting go of white breads, they have been my crutch.”
- Janice M., Minnesota

“Really hit home. Thank you for all that you are doing. You are such an inspiration. While I do not have a lot of weight to lose, I have had a strained relationship with food for a long time and am seeking to reach a point of optimum health and balance in my live. In all areas, physical, mental and emotional. Thanks again.”
-Jenn C.

“You have wonderful insight into the psychology behind overeating…I have lost over 50 pounds since last fall but September has been a challenging month and I can see that I have slipped back into some emotional eating and bingeing on the weekends. I hope to get back on the right path. I feel so much gratitude for finding your Web site!”
- Pam C., California

“The best part of this whole process is that I am getting back in touch with my spirituality. You have helped a great deal in putting that back into focus. I was so busy resisting and spinning out and feeling out of sorts that was very fear-based. When I stepped back and took the ‘inventories’ from a spiritual perspective, everything seems to be getting clear again.”
-Beth B., Kentucky

“I can’t thank you enough for helping me to realize what’s possible when it comes to a healthy, positive and very doable (!) lifestyle.”
-Elizabeth T., Colorado

“I have been meaning to write you for a long time now. I think the only reason it has been put off is that I had so much gratitude to share that it seemed like I would have to write pages and pages in order to properly express what is in my heart.

I could say that just your plan or teaching helped me, but that wouldn’t be the whole picture. It was YOU that helped me so much… There is something about your energy, your story, your depth, that inspires people.”
-Kelley N., Iowa

“You have changed my life…I am 30 this year and have had eating disorders since I was 13 which have dominated my life (with multiple inpatient stays). What you offer has helped me enormously, beyond the gratitude I can express… It has been a journey getting to this point, but now I feel that the next stage (the journey out of my eating disorder) can start, due to the hope you have given me.”
-Bobby L.

“I’m having incredible results this first week. Considering my health as a spiritual practice comes very easily for me! I’ve been walking every day and have abstained from any kind of cookie, ice cream, cake, sweet bread – it hasn’t been as difficult as I thought. I’ve been having the breakfast I know works for me. I feel really great – very in control of myself…I feel very motivated and excited to pursue this line of thinking.
—Raelee P., North Carolina

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