Testimonials

I’ve gotten more peace around my eating issues with her coaching, cuz I mean I’m kind of a compulsive overeater and addicted to sugar and theres a way that my self judgments, especially around eating in bed at night, have created such a downward spiral that it keeps me in the cycle and the support that I’ve gotten from her coaching, and particularly around the nighttime eating, has helped me let go of some of those self judgments in a way that has lessened the eating and created a bigger sense of peace around it. One of the things she said was to not judge myself for it, to notice what it’s giving me, which it really is giving me something – it’s a distraction. The other thing she said was to ritualize it, to make it really nice and special, to create awareness around it, so it wasn’t just shoveling food in and going unconscious. I was really noticing that I was eating, and somehow that awareness kind of created a little bit more of a balance around it, so it wasn’t such an unconscious shoveling in. It actually helped the whole food thing do more of what I wanted, which was to calm me down. So that was really helpful around the nighttime eating.

           The other thing is that she told me that it’s important to eat some breakfast in the morning, and I had been trying to starve myself as much as I could, in trying to hold off as long as I could, to make up for all that I’d eaten the night before. She had said that makes the body feel like it’s starving. I believed her. I think she’s right, cuz I do find that having some protein, or something to eat in the morning when I get up, before I go out the door has calmed that addictive quality down a little bit. There’s less of that urge later on, cuz it’s a little calmer from knowing that I get it in the morning, in the daytime. It’s helped that.

           A couple other things is about loving myself, cuz the truth is that so much of my eating is around not loving myself. So when I focus and remember to love myself, it helps me not to just go for the compulsive eating. So much of my eating is about not loving myself and just wanting to comfort myself by eating, when really I’m just wanting some loving connection with myself. The other thing she talked about was getting aware before I eat. I know that years ago, when I was in OA, I used to pray before I ate to get conscious, and just to slow myself down enough to get aware that I was eating, makes me notice what I’m eating and it slows down the whole eating cycle. It makes it less unconscious and I become more conscious. That’s created more peace and awareness for me. Those are specifics I enjoyed that were really helpful to me.

          There was something so supportive in that I never felt made wrong by her. I felt like she could go with me wherever I was at and with whatever was going on with me. She could just be present with that and there was nothing that you made wrong. There was something about the acceptance that I got from her that created more of an openness in me to looking into it more deeply. So that was helpful to me too. I integrated a lot because she has a certain trust in what she’s doing that’s contagious. I actually believe what she believes. I believe that she actually knows what she’s talking about! I can see how deeply she trusts it and she never tried to convince me. She just showed me what she believes, but she has such a trust in it, that the trust was contagious for me and that in itself was very helpful.

Here are the top 5 things, though there are many more, – that really stuck with me from coaching with Taunya: 

I’m a product of my upbringing, but this doesn’t mean I can’t modify or walk a new road that will result in a healthier, happy, accepting, loving life.

I can shed the masculine persona and embrace and accept the feminine woman and child within. 

My perfectionist standards are actually rejection and non acceptance of self. 

I learned how to let go of anger, so my needs can be met and my love for self and others’ can grow. 

There is no benefit or need for me to ‘manage’, fix, or take on, others issues. I can leave their dirty laundry for them to sort. 

Rachel and I were  just talking yet again about how Emma keeps improving and how happy she is when she gets off the phone with you. Thank you for helping our teenage girl – our baby, be a healthier, happier Emma. Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with you.

Wow! I’ve never read that article you sent before! Thank you. This gives me a lot of relief. I’m always grateful that our sessions include science, psychology, & that they harmonize with God’s thoughts. I feel like I’m making progress in therapy for the first time in my life. Thank you for being both a professional & a blessing from God.

My only hesitation to asking for Taunya’s coaching service was the dollar amount and worth. Having the discount she offered at that time helped me. The biggest changes to myself is how I address myself kinder and how I slow down when I do get stressed. The health related information is helpful to my knowledge and learning.
The specific feature of the coaching I liked the best were the Zoom calls and being able to talk on a lot of subjects, not just about myself. That helped make things more personal. I highly recommend her coaching. I know a few soldiers who would appreciate affordable and easy to understand help.

I didn’t have any reservations about purchasing Taunya’s coaching program. I’ve known her for a long time, so I knew I could trust her. I was able to get the help I needed to eliminate unnecessary worrying. It’s benefitted me greatly! It’s almost like I have a whole new outlook on my life, because I trust others to handle things in their life, I don’t feel the burden of taking care of others. I can just care about them and that’s it. That’s resulted in feeling less need to control situations, which frees me up to enjoy relationships.
Also, I embrace emotion when it pops up. I don’t stifle it like I used to. Subconsciously I think I felt that showing emotion showed a lack of strength. I don’t feel that way anymore. The specific feature of the coaching that I liked was how Taunya could relate to what I was going through, because she has had health struggles of her own. That was really helpful. I would absolutely recommend her coaching service! It helped me in ways I never thought it could.

The hesitation I had about purchasing her coaching service at first was, not being sure what the service was all about. I knew my snacking habits were a problem, and the changes I ended up noticing after working with her was that my approach to dealing with stress is different now, so I feel less stressed. I’ve also incorporated more protein into my eating routine, & I actually did gain better snacking habits.
The specific feature of the coaching I liked the best were the motivational texts she would send between sessions. They were a nice booster! I would definitely recommend her coaching service, to people that I think could use it. It’s unique and, of course like everything else, not for everyone.

Since childhood I was the sickly one. Ear infections, allergies, asthma, eczema, sinus infections, ibs, gird, swollen prostate, general inflammation, constant flue-like symptoms. The list went on and on and only grew as I aged. I had diagnoses of candida, depression, anxiety, food allergies, environmental allergies, “leaky gut” and finally fibromyalgia. I have been prescribed and/or tried countless medications, treatments, and supplements over the years. I would have some relief for awhile, but never complete relief and even that relief would fade over time.

Coaching from Taunya is by far the most consistent and effective form of treatment/coaching/counseling I have ever personally experienced in terms of my physical health, my emotional health, my mental health, my relationships and my overall quality of life. I often refer Taunya to my friends and family.

I initially was hesitant to try coaching from Taunya because her profile that I was texted listed her as an Eating Psychology Coach (I didn’t think what she did would help/apply to me), because I was jaded as to the effectiveness of coaching/counseling for my challenges and because I was still affected by the stigma of getting such care (at the time I didn’t realize I was affected by that).

Even though I see myself as enlightened compared to many when it comes realizing that for as many physical ailments people as a whole deal with, there is almost always as many, if not more, emotional challenges (the two are often intertwined) that people as a whole suffer from, and yet because of the stigma, lack of open dialog, good access to emotional and mental health care and a healthy basic understanding of those challenges, our emotional challenges and our mental health is neglected, much to our detriment as a society.

I had no hesitations about purchasing my coaching service with Taunya. I’ve noticed that I’m speaking to myself in a kinder, gentler, more compassionate way. I’m more patient and forgiving of my patterns of overeating as attempts to self-soothe in a habituated way. I’ve more often been able to redirect my thinking and be more mindful of making healthier food choices.
The specific feature of the coaching experience that I really liked was Taunya’s light, playful attitude, her non-judgmental acceptance and deeper understanding of the psychology underlying food issues. She is very skilled at communicating with focus and clarity. She offered me some brilliant insights that I had never before pieced together in my years of therapy. She made some great suggestions to put into practice on a daily basis. She is very good about checking in on a regular basis, offers ongoing support and inspirational quotes to keep one motivated.
I would very much so recommend her coaching service for the reasons stated above.♥️

Before purchasing my life coaching lessons, I would reason that I don’t have it that bad compared with others, and that my negative thoughts don’t happen that often. But after our constructive conversations, my stress levels definitely went down, as I saw my negative thoughts as things that I could learn from and transform, instead of hate.
I definitely began to feel more body confident and I began to appreciate myself. It’s hard to choose something I liked the most, but I very much appreciated the action steps and texts that Taunya sent. It’s easy to forget the main points in an hour long plus conversation about emotions and things, and those steps and reminders she sent, helped me to recall why I was doing this and to see real progress.
I would recommend this coaching service to anyone who wants to see their mood improve. I definitely felt understood and taken care of during the sessions, but never pitied or looked down on. All I can add is that Taunya asks empathetic, thought provoking questions that can really help you appreciate yourself more. You should give it a try!

I’m super grateful. I got married in January! I’m loving lifting weights now and I enjoy eating nutritious food. My old habits sometimes still creep in, but usually I can recognize the thoughts first. It’s crazy how much can change in a couple of years, and I recall this often! I think of things you taught me so often! I remember you saying you viewed the gym as a playground and from my perspective then, I thought that was unheard of, and would be impossible for me. You would talk about balancing every meal with protein, fats and carbs and I think of this daily. You taught me how to be curious and gracious with myself. You showed me to surround myself with uplifting, educational podcasts for encouragement— and I listen to them while I workout too! You told me to pretend to be a gym person and I became one. You taught me to listen to my body and honor what it says.

       I’m so grateful for all these things. But I am so extremely grateful for your friendship and how you listened to understand, and gave gracious advice in the midst of my struggles. Honestly, I think I went to the gym on my own only a handful of times when I was working out with you, yet you didn’t give up and encouraged me. And all these seeds you have planted eventually took root. I am so grateful for you😭😭😂

I’ve gotten more peace around my eating issues with her coaching, cuz I mean I’m kind of a compulsive overeater and addicted to sugar and theres a way that my self judgments, especially around eating in bed at night, have created such a downward spiral that it keeps me in the cycle and the support that I’ve gotten from her coaching, and particularly around the nighttime eating, has helped me let go of some of those self judgments in a way that has lessened the eating and created a bigger sense of peace around it. One of the things she said was to not judge myself for it, to notice what it’s giving me, which it really is giving me something – it’s a distraction. The other thing she said was to ritualize it, to make it really nice and special, to create awareness around it, so it wasn’t just shoveling food in and going unconscious. I was really noticing that I was eating, and somehow that awareness kind of created a little bit more of a balance around it, so it wasn’t such an unconscious shoveling in. It actually helped the whole food thing do more of what I wanted, which was to calm me down. So that was really helpful around the nighttime eating.

           The other thing is that she told me that it’s important to eat some breakfast in the morning, and I had been trying to starve myself as much as I could, in trying to hold off as long as I could, to make up for all that I’d eaten the night before. She had said that makes the body feel like it’s starving. I believed her. I think she’s right, cuz I do find that having some protein, or something to eat in the morning when I get up, before I go out the door has calmed that addictive quality down a little bit. There’s less of that urge later on, cuz it’s a little calmer from knowing that I get it in the morning, in the daytime. It’s helped that.

           A couple other things is about loving myself, cuz the truth is that so much of my eating is around not loving myself. So when I focus and remember to love myself, it helps me not to just go for the compulsive eating. So much of my eating is about not loving myself and just wanting to comfort myself by eating, when really I’m just wanting some loving connection with myself. The other thing she talked about was getting aware before I eat. I know that years ago, when I was in OA, I used to pray before I ate to get conscious, and just to slow myself down enough to get aware that I was eating, makes me notice what I’m eating and it slows down the whole eating cycle. It makes it less unconscious and I become more conscious. That’s created more peace and awareness for me. Those are specifics I enjoyed that were really helpful to me.

          There was something so supportive in that I never felt made wrong by her. I felt like she could go with me wherever I was at and with whatever was going on with me. She could just be present with that and there was nothing that you made wrong. There was something about the acceptance that I got from her that created more of an openness in me to looking into it more deeply. So that was helpful to me too. I integrated a lot because she has a certain trust in what she’s doing that’s contagious. I actually believe what she believes. I believe that she actually knows what she’s talking about! I can see how deeply she trusts it and she never tried to convince me. She just showed me what she believes, but she has such a trust in it, that the trust was contagious for me and that in itself was very helpful.