Numbing emotions with food is a common coping mechanism. It was Tracy Desjardins's favorite for decades.
Tracy is a Certified International Health Coach IAHC, a Mind Body Eating Coach (IPE), and a Certified Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor (ACE).
She has evolved her 31+ year fitness career into coaching holistic wellness for women, specializing in emotional eating recovery and healing from the damage of dieting, restricting, binge eating, and sugar addiction. After decades of personal struggles with her own weight issues, dieting, emotional binge eating, and attempting to out-exercise a poor diet, Tracy shares deep compassion for this powerful healing.
Tracy joins Dr. Pam to talk about the diet/binge journey she had been on since childhood, falling in love with fitness, learning to rest, and breaking free from old patterns.
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Tracy Desjardins
Tracy Desjardins is a Certified International Health Coach IAHC, a Mind Body Eating Coach (IPE), and a Certified Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor (ACE).
Tracy has evolved her 31+ year fitness career into coaching holistic wellness for women, specializing in emotional eating recovery and healing from the damage of dieting, restricting, binge eating, and sugar addiction. After decades of personal struggles with her own weight issues, dieting, emotional binge eating, and attempting to out-exercise a poor diet, Tracy shares deep compassion for this powerful healing.
Her focus for coaching is dedicated to helping other women find freedom from the shackles of dieting and emotional eating challenges, and to find sustainable peace with food, body, and self so they can live their life on their own trusted terms.
Tracy has a book in publishing called The Diet Free Diva, where she shares her own powerful story of growing up as an overweight child and offers her readers a 5-step plan for breaking free from the toxicity of dieting culture. Tracy shares a powerful trifecta of mind-body-spirit healing and helps women create their own unique Path of Excellence for achieving lasting, healing results and reclaiming their power and purpose in their lives. Tracy and her son, Jackson Desjardins, have recently launched a podcast called The Happy Grind Movement.
Jackson is 24 years old and has become an online YouTube influencer for men’s holistic health and weight loss. Jackson began this venture after losing over 100 pounds and finding his own recovery from an epigenetic binge eating challenge. Together, this mother-son duo shares their experience and tools for finding happiness while working to create sustainable self-habits that lead to weight loss and lasting peace with food, body, and self. Tracy lives with her husband Gary and two beloved miniature dachshunds on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
The Happy Grind Movement Podcast is hosted by Jackson Desjardins and Tracy Desjardins. Together they are a mother-son duo dedicated to helping YOU find solutions to unwanted habits that are holding you back from becoming your SUPER SELF. Jackson and Tracy know what it feels like to be overweight, frustrated, and stuck. But, they ALSO know how to get lean, get confident and rock their best life. Together, they get REAL and give you the tools you need to live fully aligned with who you want to be AT ANY AGE. As former personal trainers, they believe that while fitness is ONE part of being a healthy BAD ASS, it is not the ONLY part of true wellness in this life. Building your SUPER SELF is a grind. Together they are going to help you grind happy.
