The Real Reason You Emotionally Eat (And Why Willpower Was Never the Answer)

God and the Numbers. For the Woman Who Was Told She Couldn't Have Both.

You have loved God your whole life. And quietly, privately, maybe even a little guiltily, you have also been drawn to the numbers. To the patterns. To the things that made you feel seen in ways you could not quite explain. And you kept that part hidden. Not because you were backsliding. Not because you were weak in your faith. But because someone told you that you had to choose. God or curiosity. Faith or wonder. The church or the chart. And you chose God. And buried the rest. This episode is for you. Today I am sitting down with Anniston Blair Riekstins, an Identity Architect and Soul Blueprint Practitioner who is passionate about spirituality, the divine feminine, and numerology. Anniston's work gave me language for a version of myself I always knew was there but had been afraid to let forward. And I believe this conversation is going to do the same for you. Because here is what I want you to hear before you even press play. God is not threatened by your curiosity. Truth is not afraid of your questions. And the parts of you they told you were dangerous may be the very parts God has been waiting to heal. This is not a conversation asking you to leave your faith. This is a conversation inviting you to stop hiding from God the parts of you He already knows are there. You were never wrong for wanting both. You were just never given permission to have them. Until now. Connect with Anniston Blair Riekstins: @annistonblairriekstins [https://www.facebook.com/share/1BGpUhgHVP/?mibextid=wwXIfr] Take Anniston’s quiz to uncover the hidden patterns shaping your life. [https://www.annistonriekstins.com/discover-whats-keeping-you-hidden-quiz] Connect with Jessica: Instagram: ⁠⁠@jessicaphillipsco⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/jessicaphillipsco/] Facebook⁠⁠: jessicaphillipsco⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/jessicaphillipsco] Website: ⁠⁠www.jessicaphillips.co⁠⁠ [https://jessicaphillips.co/] Join the Growth Lounge Collective [https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19y9KAyZJm/?mibextid=wwXIfr] on Facebook for encouragement, community, and root-level conversations just like this one. Take Jessica’s ⁠Free Quiz ⁠ [https://quiz.jessica-phillips.co/]to discover your hidden behaviors that are keeping you stuck in the patterns and find your path to healing at the root The Growth Lounge Podcast is for the woman ready to stop starting over and heal what is actually keeping her stuck. New episodes drop weekly.

Stop Using Your Faith to Stay Small

Is wanting more for yourself selfish... or is it sacred? In this episode, I unpack the hidden belief that keeps faith-driven women shrinking in the name of humility, and reveals what scripture actually says about desire, calling, and abundant life after the nest empties. If you've ever felt the pull toward "more" and immediately felt guilty for it, this one is for you. In this episode: * The childhood belief that gets "baptized" into false humility * Why shrinking is not humility and wanting more is not pride * What Psalm 37:4, the parable of the talents, John 10:10, and Esther reveal about God-given desire * The Both/And: devoted AND becoming, grateful AND honest, surrendered AND stepping forward Take the Free Quiz [https://quiz.jessica-phillips.co/?utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e231_tv0]to discover the behavior keeping you in the loop. Join the Growth Lounge Collective [https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1BgZfqFCC3/] on Facebook Stay in touch: Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/jessicaphillipsco] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/jessicaphillipsco/]

Victim vs. Playing the Victim: The Identity Shift That Changes Everything

In this episode, I get honest about a topic we don't talk about enough: how victim identity becomes a survival strategy, and how it quietly keeps us from the life we actually want. This is not about blame. This is about power, and how to take yours back. There is a version of you that has been waiting a long time to read this. She's tired. Not the kind of tired that sleep fixes. The kind that comes from carrying something heavy for so long that you've stopped noticing the weight. This episode is for her. Today I'm talking about something I lived inside for most of my life before I even had a name for it. The difference between being a victim and playing one. And I want to be clear before you keep reading. This is not about blame. This is not about minimizing what happened to you. What happened to you was real. It was valid. And it was not your fault. But here's what I also know. You might still be living there. And if you are, it is quietly costing you everything. I share something personal in this episode that I have never shared publicly before. Something that happened at the hands of people still close to me today. I carried it in silence for most of my life, and for years I built my entire identity around it without realizing that's what I was doing. Not because I was broken. Because I was surviving. And survival strategies work, until they don't. There is a moment in every woman's healing journey where she has to look at the story she has been telling herself and ask a very honest question. Is this story describing my past, or is it writing my future? That question is what this episode is about. I also talk about forgiveness in a way that I think is going to land differently than anything you've heard before. Because most of us were handed a version of forgiveness that left us feeling like we were failing at it. And I want to give you the truth about what real forgiveness actually requires and why you can't get there without grieving first. If something in you went quiet while reading this, stay with that. The women who need this most are usually the first ones to say it doesn't apply to them. I know because I was one of them. You are not your story. But it is time to stop letting it write the next chapter. When you're ready for a next step, take the free quiz linked below. It will show you the specific behavior that is most actively keeping you stuck right now, because there is always a thing behind the thing. Name it. That's where the healing starts. The link is below. It's free. Go take it, and then come find me and tell me what you discover. I'm cheering for you. Take The Free Quiz [https://quiz.jessica-phillips.co/]

Who do you believe you are? ...And why it matters.

In this episode, I'm asking you a question I want you to sit with: Who you are? Because that story might be the most powerful thing running your results right now, more than any diet or plan ever could. I'm breaking down why your brain isn't actually trying to help you reach your goals, it's trying to keep you consistent with the identity you've built your life around. And if that identity says you're someone who always starts over, your brain will go to work proving you right. We talk about where these beliefs came from, why self-sabotage is often protection rather than weakness, and how you actually change an identity that's been operating in the background for years. Spoiler: it's not affirmations you don't believe. It's small acts of integrity with the woman you're becoming. You are not stuck with the story you inherited. Instagram: ⁠⁠@jessicaphillipsco⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/jessicaphillipsco/] Facebook⁠⁠: jessicaphillipsco⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/jessicaphillipsco] Website: ⁠⁠www.jessicaphillips.co⁠⁠ [https://jessicaphillips.co/] Keep the conversation going - Join us in the free Growth Lounge Collective Facebook Group [https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19y9KAyZJm/?mibextid=wwXIfr]

The Real Reason You Emotionally Eat (And Why Willpower Was Never the Answer)

What if your emotional eating isn't a problem to fix, but a message to understand? In this episode, I get honest about something the wellness world never wants to admit: emotional eating works. That's why you haven't stopped. And that's exactly why shame, willpower, and "just be more disciplined" have never been able to touch it for long. This one is for the woman who has tried everything, knows better, and still finds herself in the kitchen at 10pm reaching for something she said she wouldn't. You are not broken. You are under-regulated and under-resourced. And that's something we can actually work with. Instagram: ⁠⁠@jessicaphillipsco⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/jessicaphillipsco/] Facebook⁠⁠: jessicaphillipsco⁠⁠ [https://www.facebook.com/jessicaphillipsco] Website: ⁠⁠www.jessicaphillips.co⁠⁠ [https://jessicaphillips.co/] Book a Discovery Call With Me [⁠https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19y9KAyZJm/?mibextid=wwXIfr⁠]