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The Escape Trance Companion Workbook

The eating was never about the food. It was about not feeling something.

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 make the feeling stop.

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Understanding the Escape Trance

When overwhelm builds, the brain seeks an exit. Food gets used to fill the channels and distract the mind so the emotional pain can’t be felt.

This isn’t a moral failure. It isn’t weakness, and it isn’t something you can simply decide your way out of.

The Escape Trance is a protective survival mechanism. Your nervous system is doing exactly what it was designed to do when the world feels like too much. You aren’t malfunctioning — you have parts of you, like the Oblivionator, working hard to protect you from pain the only way they know how.

1

Mapping Your Trance Cycle

See the “exit moment” coming before it takes over — so the pull toward food stops catching you off guard.

2

Meeting Your Parts

Trade the inner war for understanding, and the part that’s been numbing you starts to soften its grip.

3

Building a Presence Plan

Stay with yourself through the peak of a craving wave instead of vanishing into it.

4

Finding Real Relief

Address what you’ve actually been escaping from, so there’s less you need to numb — and a life you don’t need to leave.

Inside the workbook

Across 25 pages of guided work, you’ll:

Reconstruct a recent escape episode honestly — before, during, and the return
Meet the part whose only job is to make the overwhelm stop
Take a “weight inventory” of what you’re actually carrying that nobody sees
Write the one letter that reaches a part that won’t make eye contact
Build a presence plan and a 90-second practice for the peak of the wave

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 Escape Trance Companion Workbook
$17
What changes
Catch the “exit moment” before it pulls you under — so the reach for food loses its grip
Stop fighting yourself and start understanding the part that’s been trying to protect you
Stay present through a craving wave instead of disappearing into it
Have an interrupt ready in the moment it matters: “This isn’t the escape I need”
Begin addressing what you’ve been escaping from, so there’s less you need to numb in the first place
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The Complete Food Trance Workbook Bundle
$27
What changes
Recognize every pattern you run — Comfort, Escape, and Rebellion — instead of being blindsided by the one you didn’t see coming
Work with all three trances using one consistent IFS approach, so nothing falls through the cracks
Meet the Parts behind each pattern and understand what they’re actually guarding
Carry all three interrupts — comfort, escape, freedom — so you’re ready whichever trance shows up
Get the complete companion set in one place rather than piecing it together later
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The workbook is yours the moment you buy it — to keep, and to return to whenever the pull to disappear shows up.

Everett Considine
Founder of The Peaceful Eating Way
everettconsidine.com