19. Emotional Intelligence: What Your Weight Struggle Is Trying To Tell You

23. Your Path Forward

Welcome to Season 2 of Lifted You Weight Loss! Season 1 was all about building your foundation. Together, we built a foundation rooted in love, clarity, practical wisdom, body connection, and emotional intelligence. Now it's time to put that foundation to work. You've built your foundation. Now it's time to walk your path. In this first episode of Season 2, I share the personal strategy I'm using to lose my last 15–20 pounds and explain exactly how I'm applying the Six Pillars of Doer Support, along with the tools we've built together throughout Season 1. More importantly, I'll invite you to begin building your own appealing and possible plan. Your weight loss journey doesn't have to look like mine—it should be built around your life, your goals, and your next right steps. The foundation has been laid. Now let's start moving forward together.

22. Season One Finale: Power Words!

As we wrap up Season 1, we're bringing together some of the most powerful ideas we've explored while building your weight loss foundation. In this episode, I'm sharing a collection of simple phrases and "power words" that can create immediate shifts in perspective whenever you might need one.   They are reminders and personal anchors-- Small moments of clarity that help you reconnect with what you already know. Throughout Season 1, we've built a foundation of love, clarity, practical wisdom, body connection, and emotional intelligence.  These power words help bring those tools to life in real moments when you need them most. Whether you're facing a difficult choice, a challenging emotion, a setback, or simply a hard day, these phrases can help you pause, see more clearly, and take your next step forward. Sometimes a few simple words can change everything.

21. Your Emotional Thermostat

Emotional Intelligence: Your emotions are trying to help you!  In this episode, we continue building the Emotional Intelligence layer of your weight loss foundation by exploring the concept of your emotional thermostat. Just as a thermostat alerts us when something needs attention, our emotions provide valuable information about what may be happening beneath the surface.  Instead of reacting automatically to difficult emotions with food, self-criticism, avoidance, or giving up, we can learn to get curious about what those emotions are trying to tell us. Using Kimmie Jackson's Universal Human Needs, you'll learn how to identify the need behind an emotion, gain greater clarity, and respond in ways that help you move forward on your weight loss path. You'll also learn a simple three-step process—Name It to Tame It, Zoom In to Decode, and Connect, Check and Go—to help you recognize and fulfill your needs while continuing to make progress. The emotion is the signal. The need is the message. And your response is where growth happens.

20. Your Most Misunderstood Weight Loss Tool

Emotional Intelligence: What if one of the most powerful tools for lasting weight loss has been with you all along? In this episode, we're taking a closer look at emotions—what they are, why they exist, and why they may be one of the most misunderstood and underutilized tools in your weight loss journey. You'll learn the true role emotions play in creating movement and change, why ignoring them often keeps us stuck, and how understanding them can help you move forward with greater clarity, compassion, and intention. I'll also introduce Kimmie Jackson's Three Universal Emotional Needs and explain how unmet emotional needs can quietly influence our choices, habits, and relationship with food. By the end of this episode, you'll have a new understanding of your emotions—not as problems to solve or feelings to avoid, but as valuable messengers designed to help guide your life. Your emotions are not working against you.  In fact, they may be one of the greatest tools you have.

19. Emotional Intelligence: What Your Weight Struggle Is Trying To Tell You

Emotional Intelligence: What if your weight struggle isn't the actual problem? What if the cravings, overeating, self-sabotage, starts and stops, and feeling stuck are actually trying to tell you something important? In this episode, we begin the fifth and final layer of the Lifted You Weight Loss Foundation: Emotional Intelligence. Drawing from the work of emotional intelligence pioneers Peter Salovey, John Mayer, and Daniel Goleman, you'll learn how emotions contain valuable information and how unmet emotional needs can quietly influence your thoughts, habits, eating behaviors, and weight loss progress. Together, we'll explore a new way of looking at your weight struggle—as a messenger pointing toward deeper needs that may have gone unseen for far too long. You'll discover why emotional intelligence is essential to lasting weight loss, how unmet emotional needs can create a personal fog that keeps you feeling stuck, and how learning to understand and respond to those needs can help you reconnect with yourself, strengthen your Doer, deepen Body Connection, rebuild your weight loss identity, and become a natural eater in your mind, body, and heart. Oftentimes the struggle isn't the problem... It's the message.