Meghan Makena

09/12/2025

You don’t have to feel like it 🌟

One of the keys to stopping emotional eating is learning to lead yourself not from what you feel like doing, but what is truly best for you when you are looking at every layer and part of yourself—from your inner leader or inner parent.

Most of the time, what we feel like doing in the moment doesn’t necessarily line up with what is best for us.

Think of children, where they may not feel like brushing their teeth or going to bed on time, but as a good parent, you are holding that structure with love. And they don’t have to feel like it… but they do need to do it.

And you enforce that not to be harsh but to care for them.

There was a time when my emotional eating nearly destroyed me and my life.

It nearly destroyed my health. It was when I let my feelings run my life. I would do things based on how I felt. I would eat what I felt like eating. I wanted cookies every night after dinner? I could eat cookies because I felt like eating them.

Something I wanted to achieve seemed a little too hard to do even though it was a goal? I would not do it because it felt too hard.

I was uncomfortable having a difficult conversation with someone? I would avoid it because I didn’t feel like it.

Shifting out of being run by our feelings is a crucial piece to healing our relationship with food at the root level. Not to mention to be able to thrive in every area of our life.

Of course, it’s OK to feel our feelings and breathe into them and use all of the embodiment tools that you are learning here…to metabolize and digest them.

But it’s a whole other thing to have life be run by our feelings. It’s a recipe for self harm and eroding our self trust and self-respect. It’s like putting a boat in the ocean with no navigation or direction. Just letting it float around in the ocean and go wherever it wants to go. You’re not going to get where you want to go, and it will probably be very dangerous.

What is the alternative? Making choices based on what is truly best for us. This is the foundation of a deeply loving, trusting, caring relationship with yourself.

It’s the same recipe for a relationship with anyone else in your life. If you think about a relationships with your close friends or family members or spouse, if they just do whatever they want based on their feelings, they will not be a very fun person to be in relationship with.

Conversely, if someone is always looking out for the best of both of you—no matter what their feelings are—and rather than letting their feelings run the show, they possess the strength to do the happy thing for the highest could of all, this is someone you want to keep close!

Sometimes we can equate kindness, gentleness and self love with doing what we feel like. When it’s really the inverse.
And we may also be equating solid, consistent boundaries—born out of looking out for our own highest good— with harshness or strict rules.

I invite you to look at anywhere in your mind where you have mistaken something that is not actually good for you as self love or kindness or gentleness. And something that is truly good for you as harsh or rigid.

This is also the key to developing a healthy relationship with structure that supports us and nourishes us and ultimately protects us 💛🙏🏼

09/04/2025

Every day I thank God with all my heart for brining me such incredible, beautiful, dedicated clients. They’re more than just clients.

They are sisters I get to walk alongside of.

Powerful women that I get to show up for the way I needed someone to be with me: kind and loving but firm, gentle yet willing to cut through illusions and excuses…and speak the truth. Warm but coddle-free.

Not a moment goes by that I don’t count my blessings, that I get to dig deep with my clients and provide a path that catalyzes lasting change that will forever impact their lives, and the lives of their children.

09/03/2025

Exercise can be harmful or healing.

For most women I meet, the sheer pleasure of movement has been taken out of their exercise.

And if you struggle with your weight and food, movement can become a tactic to burn calories rather than a gift to your body that comes out of you love and care for it.

In my sweet client community, The Embodiment Solution, I help each woman find movement that she loves—whether that’s lifting heavy weights, sprinting, pilates, dancing, or taking a kickboxing class.

When movement becomes delightful, your body responds to that.

Your body is intelligent and can feel your motives for movement.

If your motives are surface-level, coming from fear and control, your body will feel that.

Conversely, if your movement comes from wanting to care for the vessel that God gave you—to be vital, have energy, and feel great—exercise transforms into something completely different.

It changes from a punishment or a way to control into something that brings you satisfaction and joy.

And when my clients make this shift, it’s often where they begin to see extra weight melt away naturally.

I invite you to find movement that you love.

Our bodies need to move every day, not out of fear of health issues, nor out of obsession with body image. . . but from a desire to fall in love with movement again.

08/27/2025

Most women who stay stuck in the emotional eating cycle are constantly trying to change from the level of their actions and habits.

But the real shift happens when you learn how to change your state.

Your actions are almost always an attempt to change how you feel. And when you don’t know how to shift your inner state, you reach for something external to do it for you.

That’s why, at the end of a stressful day, food can feel irresistible. It’s not about hunger. It’s about trying to soothe what you don’t yet know how to soothe on the inside.

It shows up in a thousand little ways:
Stress → chocolate to take the edge off
Exhaustion → coffee and cookies to get through
Boredom → “just a little something”
Emotional pain → something warm and cozy

The diets, the “clean eating plans,” the endless cycles of restriction and rebound… they all stay focused on food.

But food isn’t the real problem.
And deep down, you already know that.

What this work has shown me — again and again — is that lasting freedom comes when you learn how to regulate, soothe, and replenish yourself from the inside. When you know how to change your state without needing food to do it for you.

That’s when food stops being the control button.
That’s when the power shifts back where it belongs. Not to food. Not to diets. Not to weight loss strategies. But to YOU.

Ready to get to stop scratching the surface and living under the illusion that all you need to do is have more willpower and better habits? In my work we get to the real roots of these patterns. We break the chains. Comment “READY” and I’ll send you my free training where I go into how I do this with my clients 👇🏽

08/26/2025

I never set out to become an expert in emotional eating. For most of my life, food felt like my enemy.

Even though I knew about nutrition, practiced meditation, and even taught embodiment… when stress hit, when loneliness surfaced, when old wounds got stirred up…I’d find myself going back and forth to the kitchen, reaching for food.

It wasn’t about physical hunger.
It was about trying to find the love, warmth, and affection I didn’t get from my mom.

That’s why my overeating started so young, at age 5. But the promise of getting comforted by food was only temporary. It left me heavier, bloated, and feeling even more unlovable.

For 20 years I thought something was gravely wrong with me. I tried every diet, cleanse, and supplement. I shamed myself, hoping the right plan would finally “fix” me. Nothing worked.

The turning point came when I realized: the solution wasn’t at the level of the food.
My body needed to get out of protection mode. My emotions needed to be digested. My nervous system needed soothing.

Healing my mother wound didn’t happen overnight. But step by step, I learned to become my own inner nurturer. To give myself the warmth and safety I’d been seeking all along. And slowly, I healed.

Today, food no longer controls me — not because I found the perfect plan, but because I found my way home to myself.

This healing isn’t reserved for a chosen few. It’s the birthright of every woman willing to listen to her body and reconnect to a deeper kind of nourishment.

You’ll fall down sometimes — I did. You’ll want to quit — I did. But every time you return to listening, you take another brave step toward freedom.

And it shouldn’t take years. Once you see that food is just the smoke alarm, all you need is the right guide to help you find the source of the smoke.

Inside my mentorship, we get to the root of the root so you can finally close the book on the endless cycle of searching, starting, and stopping.

Are you ready for the relief that comes when you never have to ‘start over’ again? Comment READY and I’ll message you 💛👇🏽

10/12/2023

Learn the inner mechanics of deep rest! Free workshop on 11/17, details below.

As our world becomes more chaotic and uncertain, one thing is for sure: We can choose to prioritize coming home to ourselves through the power of rest. Many of us know that we need to make rest a priority, but few know how to actually do it.​