The Rebellion Trance Companion Workbook
Restrict, rebel, regret, repeat. There’s a way out that doesn’t require either side to win.
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 freedom.
Understanding the Rebellion Trance
You already know the cycle: a part of you tightens the rules, another part tears them up, and round it goes. Here’s what changes everything — the rebellion isn’t the problem. The Rebel is protecting your freedom from rules that, in a lot of cases, were never yours to begin with. You don’t need to defeat either side. You need to change where the structure comes from.
By the end of the workbook, you’ll see both sides of the war clearly — and you’ll get that you were free the whole time. Real freedom was never going to come from breaking the rules; it comes from choosing. You’ll build guidelines a loving part actually wants to follow, so the Rebel has nothing left to fight.
Seeing Both Sides of the War
Watch the rule-maker and the Rebel from above, and understand the fight instead of being trapped in it.
Reclaiming Your Rules
Sort the food rules that are actually yours from the ones you inherited, and drop the ones that were never yours.
Ending the Rebellion
When the structure comes from you, the Rebel has nothing left to push against, and the snap-and-regret cycle loses its fuel.
Building Real Freedom
Trade restrict-rebel-regret for guidelines a caring part actually wants to keep — freedom that lasts past the weekend.
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 rules start to chafe.