Julie Simon
MA, MBA, MFT
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Overeating Recovery Expert
Julie Simon Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Overeating recovery, treatment of mood disorders, relationship counseling, career assistance
- Career Focus
- Psychotherapist, Personal Trainer,Speaker, Author,Seminar Leader
- Affiliation
- LACAMFT, CAMFT, SYMCLA
Julie M. Simon, MA, MBA, MFT is a Licensed Psychotherapist and Life Coach with a full-time private practice specializing in the treatment of overeating and associated mood disorders. In addition to her education and twenty-plus years of experience as a psychotherapist, Julie is a Certified Personal Trainer with twenty-five years of experience designing personalized exercise and nutritional programs for various populations. Julie graduated summa cum laude from the University of Califo ia, Los Angeles, with both a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and a Masters Degree in Business Administration. She also holds a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, Los Angeles.
Julie's profesional experience with and personal journey through childhood trauma, weight challenges and body, brain, and spiritual imbalances led to the creation of the Twelve-Week Emotional Eating Recovery and Follow-up Program. The Program, which she has been running for nineteen years, offers clients an alte ative to dieting by addressing the mind, body and spirit imbalances underlying overeating.
In addition to the treatment of overeating, Julie offers psychotherpy and coaching for the following issues: Mood disorders, such as depression and anxiety; Relationship challenges, including marriage, couple and family counseling; Career development and transitions, work related stress; Recovery from childhood dysfunction and trauma; Communication skills; Self-care skills; Parenting challenges; Life transitions; women's issues;Codependency; Grief and Loss, and Assertiveness training.
Julie is an inspiring and motivating health and wellness educator and speaker with a keen psychological acumen and wealth of nutrition and fitness knowledge. She has presented seminars and workshops on overcoming overeating and related topics to both lay and professional audiences fo the past two decades. Her presentations have been popular and well received.
You can contact Ms. Simon at www.overeatingrecovery.com
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Adopt a Zero Tolerance Policy for self abuse
I often hear from my overeating clients that they wish they could get motivated to take better care of themselves. They ask me “why is it that I can’t motivate myself to eat better and exercise consistently? It shouldn’t be this difficult!” While the answer will vary from person to person, one thing that I notice across the board is the lack of an inner nourishing voice.
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Do you feel worthy of self-love?
We’ve all heard it said that you can’t love anyone else until you love yourself. And although we know there’s truth to this old adage, most of us persist in looking for love outside of ourselves, often in all the wrong places. In one of my emotional eating groups this week, we discussed the concept of worthiness. I asked the group members if they felt worthy of self-love. All said they did not and each gave a detailed list of the reasons they felt they were not worthy. The list included things like: • I don’t have a college degree • I procrastinate • I haven’t paid off my debtr
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Getting Back on Track
It seems we are constantly trying to “get back on track” with something in our lives. We may be trying to get back to healthy eating, working out, de-cluttering, dating or work on some project we’ve dropped. And if we’ve really fallen behind, the disappointment and overwhelmed feeling can lead to a sense of failure, low motivation and paralysis.
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Stopping the Diet Mentality
Perhaps you've just gone through a rough patch in your life, or a very busy, stressful time and you've been overeating. Maybe your life, in general, feels like one big rough patch! You've gained some weight and you're trying to figure out how to lose it. Often, the quickest way to feel some control over your eating is to go on a diet. And when you're feeling out of control with your eating, all you can think about, when you're not overeating, is gaining back some control. Intuitively, it seems to make sense to cut back your intake in order to lose weight.
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Today is International No Diet Day
I bet you didn’t know that today is International No Diet Day. Well it is, and its observed annually on May 6th. It’s a day dedicated to raise awareness regarding the dangers in dieting and to celebrate body acceptance and body shape diversity.
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Stink’ Think’
Have you ever thought about how powerful your thoughts are and how quickly they can alter your mood? Truthfully, how often does a thought or series of thoughts ruin a perfectly good day for you? How often do you grab something to eat to calm or soothe yourself because of overwhelming, anxious or depressive thoughts? For most overeaters, the answer is quite often.
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Setting Limints Means Delaying Gratification
M. Scott Peck, MD, author of The Road Less Traveled,defines delaying gratification as “a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with.”
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Living in this moment; Loving in this moment
In one of my overeating support groups this week, we were discussing the notion of "living in this moment." So often, when we aren't satisified with our bodies, we put our lives on hold. We tell ourselves that we're not applying for that new position, going back to school, volunteering, beginning dating, visiting the doctor or taking that new exercise class because we need to lose some weight first. The fantasy is that when we lose the weight, we will feel much better about ourselves and feel motivated to move forward.
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Poor sleep and weight gain?
Ever notice how hungry you feel when you don’t get enough sleep? Did you know that when we are sleep-deprived we eat more because we are actually hungrier? Yes, it’s true. Chronic sleep loss disrupts the body’s endocrine system by triggering increased insulin resistance and a disruption of appetite regulating hormones. Lack of sleep leads to a rise in ghrelin, the hormone that turns on hunger and a restriction in leptin, the hormone that makes you feel full. And since we are awake longer hours and are often sedentary in that extra waking time we consume more calories than we burn.
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The Weight of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a time when most of us overeat. It's just what we do on this holiday, right? We eat until we're stuffed, and then when we have a little room opening up again in the old digestive tract, we fill it back up immediately. Hours later, we do it all over again. It's okay--we're giving thanks for the abundance of food on our tables and family and friends in our home.
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Is your eating driven by emotional hunger?
If you're like most of the people that attend my seminars, workshops and classes on Emotional Eating, you've tried all kinds of diets, fasts and exercise regimens to take off the weight. Perhaps you've even tried pills, shots and surgery, all to no avail. You've lost weight many times but always seem to gain it back. You may already be suffering from health conditions, like diabetes and hypertension, related to your weight.
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Are unmet needs sending you to the refrigerator?
Does it feel like you’re living your life, day-to-day, with many of your needs unmet? Do you think this may have something to do with your overeating? If so, you’re not alone. Many overeaters, frustrated by years of unmet needs, find themselves regularly “using” food for emotional comfort, pleasure, soothing and distraction.
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