The Comfort Trance Companion Workbook
You don’t reach for food because you’re weak. You reach because a part of you learned it works.
A Food Trance is what happens when a part of you reaches for food — not because you’re hungry, but because in that moment, food promises to soothe what hurts.
Understanding the Comfort Trance
The struggle keeps repeating for one reason: you’ve been fighting the wrong thing. The reach for food when you’re not hungry isn’t about trying harder — it’s a part of you that decided, a long time ago, that food was the fastest reliable way to feel okay when things got hard. You can’t force a protector to stand down. But you can understand it. And the moment you do, the whole struggle changes shape.
By the last page of the workbook, you’ll be able to feel the Comfort Trance starting — the trigger, the voice that talks you into it, the moment the promise of food gets louder than everything else — and catch it while you still have a choice. You’ll stop realizing only afterward, once the guilt has already arrived, and start noticing the moment in real time. Not through restriction. Through awareness.
Seeing the Trance Start
Feel the trigger, the voice, and the moment the promise takes over — while you still have a choice.
Meeting Your Parts
Understand the part that talks you into it instead of fighting it, so it no longer has to run the show.
Riding the Wave
Use one question to interrupt a craving mid-wave, and ride the peak that passes in about 90 seconds.
Choosing in Real Time
Meet the quiet evening with awareness instead of autopilot — and make the call yourself, not the next morning in regret.
Inside the workbook
Across 25 pages of guided work, you’ll:
Created by Everett Considine, a Level 3 certified IFS practitioner with 15 years in IFS and over 10 years on food patterns, who’s worked with over 7,000 people.
Choose your starting point
The workbook is yours the moment you buy it — to keep, and to return to whenever the urge to soothe with food shows up.