Lindsay Valley LCSW

02/05/2025

While on some level, all eating is emotional eating because humans are emotional creatures (the body communicates through “cr@vings,” physical & emotional sensations) here are 4 mental & emotional signs you’ve reached a point where your emotional eating bothers you ❤️‍🩹

1. you feel frustration, h@te, or disgust having to think about food.

2. you feel fatigued by having to think & plan for your next meal.

3. so overcome by food, you reach a point where nothing sounds appetizing, nothing sounds “good” … if you could, you’d be “done” with food. You’re burnt out.

4. negative emotional states follow afterwards like shame, regret, or vowing never again.

✨ So what’s needed in food relationship healing?

Historical, Political, & Pagan/Indigenous educations needed. Resources, mutual aid, reconnecting to Voice, Power & Agency, & Chosen family. Harm reduction in nutrition & self care. Storytelling & using voice & agency for causes & communities valued is needed for wellness….

WORLD BUILDING ✨❤️🌎🌍🌏🦌🌿

01/13/2025

Arizona Therapist with Lived Experience in Binge Eating Disorder: Binge eating is an intergenerational broken heart. What's needed? World Building.

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Arizona Therapist with Lived Experience in Binge Eating Disorder: binge eating is an intergenerational broken heart. What's needed? World Building

01/09/2025

Context for Food Relationship Healing: ED’s, Emotional eating, Food relationships, Consumption vs Conservation...
are inextricably tied to the scales of scarcity vs abundance.

Your body, your patterns, will fluctuate in correspondence to how secure you feel in any given moment for your survival.

take a breath & take care of each other < 3


As a Phoenician, my heart is with LA & Southern California right now 🖤

12/18/2024

Cycle breakers seek connection and the way to feeling less guarded and more connected is by seeing for yourself how your emotions are not unlike other beings in nature. You are nature. Your birth chart, mythology, & fantasy storytelling is the most healing (and fun!) way to do this ✨✨✨

Because sometimes the pieces were missing come from non-human voices.

Mythology & storytelling provide access to voices and figures we may miss in the present day…

Dieties, heroes, anti-heroes, animals, creatures, forces of nature, including plant life, & the land & weather itself…

Your inner world is an ecosystem 🌿

You feel less guarded & more connected when you reconnect to this ecosystem 🌿🌌

Accepting astrological counseling clients now ✨🌿🌌💛

10/21/2024

Food relationship affirmations/ reminders for the holiday season 🌿🧡 if thoughts about food bother you, remember: we are wired to think about food & it is more than okay to find food delicious, to look forward to food, to love eating, etc.

There is a reason why we gather around food. 🪵🔥🌌

Food is love as much as it is also survival.

05/14/2024

SAVE THE DATE FREE BINGE EATING WEBINAR 🌿 5/23 11AM MST 🌿 In honor of this Ta**us season 💚🐂🌿 I’m so excited to get this out there & hoping to cover what I can! 💫 Big picture themes in binge eating disorder recovery:

🌿 Binge eating as an intergenerational broken heart.

🌿 Binge eating as a multi-layered survival strategy.

🌿 Harm reduction, not sobriety or abstinence.

🌿 Processed food: Big Food, Industrialized Food Industry implications on Binge Eating

🌿 Food addiction implications

🌿 Emotion regulation, dissociation, physiological, & integrative implications

🌿 Why myth, metaphor, & fantasy are perfect for binge eating recovery (astrology & ecological perspectives)

🌿 Cultural, political & systemic implications on food, cooking, kitchens, health, & nutrition.

🌿 What’s needed: World Building & chosen family. Ecosystem Relationships.

🌿 Resources & recommendations

I’m happy to host again if there’s enough interest! Get on my mailing list for the meet up link!! ⚡️💌🫶🏼 Share with anyone you think needs to hear this! ✨

Thank you, hope to see you there! 💫🌌

05/10/2024

Personal astrology is about understanding what befalls you. 🌌 It’s not your fault, certain forces just land on you. 🌠 This impacts how you’re wired and how you function. Sometimes there are good matchups, sometimes there are really challenging matchups.

Understanding your planet placements can give you insight on how to navigate your energy and uncover channels you might have access to express your energy in a way that feels more fulfilling.

🌌 Birth chart astrology shows me our personalities, our wiring, consists of a multitude of multifaceted voices. The birth chart is about relationships. You & your ancestors were born into an ecosystem. You, yourself, are an ecosystem. An ecosystem consists of non-human perspectives including: plants, animals, land, the elements, and the weather (climate). These perspectives, these voices, these relationships, exist in us and therefore how we are driven to channel our emotions. The environment itself, nature, influences your voice.

🌋 Right now, I understand a version of myself like the volcano. Hot, destructive, unpredictable, monstrous even but creative, fierce, and magnetizing. Volcanoes shake things up. When I try to stifle the volcano within me, what happens to my health? If I live in an environment that doesn’t encourage volcanos- what happens then? What channels or environments are available to me to express this volcano? 🌋

Your birth chart can help you tease out what might be available to you. What might feel a little better or perhaps what you need to lean into. 🌿

04/25/2024

All eating is emotional, because humans are emotional creatures. So what is binge eating? In binge eating, it feels like all my eggs are in this one basket. Food as my primary & all encompassing channel for meeting my needs. At the same time, “binge eating,” “emotional eating,” “stress eating,” and/ or overindulgence happens & is natural 🌿

💚 Accepting appointments for clients, therapists, & birth chart readings

04/20/2024

Ironically, life is too delicious to restrict yourself to just one channel of deliciousness, to just one channel for nourishment… A big part of binge eating recovery/ healing is practicing flexibility. The flexibility to get out of your comfort zones, the walls you’ve built, & the boxes you’ve been conditioned to fit your needs into.

Accepting clients in AZ & consultations with coaches & therapists ✨💚

03/26/2024

For cycle breakers & any witchy therapists out there- how Tarot can benefit your mental health ⬆️✨✨

All of my clients have a tarot practice or they’re curious about starting a tarot practice. I’m always up front that I’m not a tarot practitioner, but I am a trauma therapist who practices tarot & can help you navigate that journey if you wish to pursue it and/ or incorporate it into your therapy sessions, as it’s a value/ practice/ belief that’s important to you, therefore integral to your healing & understanding your own story ❤️✨

Stages of Recovery PDF available for free download 🔗

03/21/2024

Your binge eating partly results from broken boundaries you don’t even remember- within your nervous system. This results in the never ending tug of war between isolation (loneliness) and enmeshment. Intergenerational colonial trauma is also a broken boundary.

A balance must be struck between belonging to oneself as much as any community.