Why You Keep Eating When You Promised Yourself You Wouldn't
How to stop swinging between restriction and overeating — and what the swing is protecting.
Free · Two hours · No replay, on purpose
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Two hours with Everett, live. You'll leave knowing which Part reaches for the food — and what it's been protecting.
There's no replay. If you can't be in the room, it's better to wait for the next one.
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Saturday, September 12 · 3 pm ET. The Zoom link is on its way to your inbox — and here it is too, so you can't lose it.
Join on Zoom → us06web.zoom.us/j/88453065468
Bring one food moment from this week. Cameras optional, chat on.
What we'll actually do
This isn't a talk about food. It's two hours with the two Parts of you on a seesaw — the one that makes the rules, and the one that breaks them — and the thing underneath that neither of them has been able to reach.
Name what's loudest
A one-question start: which pattern showed up most this week. The room answers together, anonymously.
Meet the one that reaches
The three ways it happens — soothing, escaping, refusing — and the single job they all share: make something unbearable bearable, fast.
Watch the seesaw
The rule-maker pushes, the one that reaches swings back, the shame becomes the next thing that needs soothing. It's not weakness. It's physics.
Hear both voices
You write one sentence in each voice. Everett reads a few aloud and speaks the third thing — what says something to both.
Go underneath, live
What was happening an hour before the kitchen? With one volunteer, Everett goes far enough that the room sees the reaching soften.
Who this is for
If you've taken the Food Trance Quiz, this is the room behind your result. If you haven't, you'll recognize yourself in the first ten minutes.
Comfort
You're there for every bite. It was talked in — "you've had a day" — and the guilt only arrives after.
Escape
There's a gap. You come back and the food is gone and you don't quite remember eating it.
Rebellion
A rule holds for days, then snaps. The bite is a small act of freedom — and then the regret.
Three doors, one room. We'll keep each one in its own lane.
No replay. On purpose.
The teaching is written down afterwards for everyone who registers, and the exercise comes with it. But the witnessed work — one person, one Part, in front of a room that's rooting for them — only happens live. That's the part worth showing up for.
I've taught Internal Family Systems for fifteen years — the last ten of them focused on food — and more than seven thousand people have done this work with me. I don't think you have a discipline problem. I think you have two Parts who've never been in the same room.
— Everett Considine
Bring the free companion app
The Trance Tracker is a tiny app for the moment of noticing — one tap when a trance begins, one when you come back. We'll use it live in the room. Install it before the call →