You’re not hungry. You know you’re not hungry. You still want to eat.

I’ve been sitting with a question about that moment. What if you’re not craving food at all? What if you’re craving a feeling, a moment, five minutes where nobody needs anything from you?

Maybe you’re not craving food. Maybe you’re craving a break.

What’s in this episode

I talk about what I’m seeing with clients taking GLP-1s. Their appetite has changed. The food noise quieted. And they still find themselves in front of a plate they’re not physically hungry for.

That isn’t a sign you’re doing something wrong. It’s a sign there’s something underneath the eating that the medication was never designed to touch.

I also share the shift that changed my work completely. For years I was a board-certified health coach handing out meal plans and running detoxes. People did beautifully, and then something happened in their life. Then the old pattern came back. Every time.

So I stopped asking what she should eat and started asking why she needs this behavior in the first place.

That question became the Cravings Gone Method™.

Try this before your next craving

The next time you find yourself at the cabinet and you know you’re not hungry, don’t ask why can’t I control myself? That question has never once produced an answer. It only produces shame, and shame sends you back to the food.

Ask this instead:

What am I hoping this food will give me in the next five to ten minutes?

Comfort. Relief. Connection. Control. Numbing. Escape. Safety. Reward. Permission to stop.

Whatever comes up, don’t argue with it. Just notice it. Your craving is a clue. It’s telling you where to look.

A note on understanding vs. changing

Understanding why you do something is not the same as changing it. I want to be honest about that, because a lot of content will tell you insight is the whole transformation. It isn’t. Insight gives you a place to begin.

Changing the pattern is different work. It happens underneath the conscious mind, which is where hypnosis, NLP and somatic practice come in.

This Saturday: a free live workshop

I’m teaching this in full on Saturday, September 26 at 1:00 PM Pacific, live on Substack. It’s called Why You Still Crave Food When You’re Not Hungry.

We’ll look at cravings, emotional eating, what food might be giving you, and the patterns that show up beneath the behavior. I’ll walk you through the Cravings Gone Method™, and I’ll guide you through an experience from my work so you can feel the difference between learning about change and experiencing it.

It’s for you whether you’re on a GLP-1, coming off one, have never taken one, or have simply spent years wondering why knowing what to eat was never enough.

The replay will be up for 24 hours.

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With you,
Monica

Maybe it started when you were very young.

Maybe there was no one to catch you.

No one to hold you.

No one to caress you when you cried alone in an empty crib or an empty room.

Maybe the adults in your life were struggling themselves, too overwhelmed, too disconnected, too lost in their own survival to find their way to yours.

And so you learned, without anyone ever sitting you down and telling you, that your emotions were too much.

Too inconvenient.

Too messy.

Maybe you watched your mother hold everything together. Maybe you watched your father do the same. And without a single word being spoken, you learned that strength meant silence.

That keeping it together was how you earned love.

That falling apart was not an option.

I want to dedicate this episode to my daughter, Gabbie.

Because five to ten years ago, she told me something I wasn't ready to hear.

She told me that she always watched me hold it together — and that, sadly, without me ever meaning to, she learned to hold it together too.

She learned that strength meant silence.

And baby girl — if you're listening to this —

That is not true.

It was never true.

I am here for you.

I see you.

I witness you.

And I am so deeply sorry it took me this long to say it out loud.

I love you.

So many of us learned to cry quietly.

And if someone did come, it was only to tell us to stop.

That it wasn't the right time.

That they were too busy.

That we were too much.

So we stopped.

And somewhere along the way, stopping became our superpower.

Not feeling became our superpower.

We became the reliable one. The capable one. The good one. The one who handles everything. The woman who shows up — no matter what.

But here is what I know now after years of going underneath the patterns with hundreds of women...

That strength was never your personality.

It was your protection.

And the little girl who built it deserves to finally be witnessed.

That is what this episode is about.

In this episode:

• Why so many high-achieving women learned that strength meant silence

• How that survival adaptation lives in the body decades later

• Why understanding your patterns is not the same as releasing them

• What actually shifts when the original wound is finally witnessed

Ready to find out where this lives in YOUR body? DM Monica the word STRONG on Instagram @themonicabravo to ask about 1:1 Deep Healing Shamanic Hypnosis Sessions.

If you haven't listened to last week's episode on grief and the nervous system, go there first, as this is the next layer.

Monica breaks down:

• What soul contracts actually are and why they complete (not fail)

• Why some contracts break instead of completing cleanly, and what that does to your nervous system

• The truth about twin flame dynamics and why they can trap you in harmful loops

• The energetic, spiritual, and subconscious layers Monica clears in her sessions

• Why willpower will never be enough, and what actually stops the loop

This episode is for the woman who knows better and keeps going back anyway. You are not broken. You are in an incomplete contract — and there is a way through.

Stop Sabotage Mini Course — Release the subconscious loops keeping you stuck in self-sabotage. Use code [SUMMER25] at checkout.

Aligned Abundance Course — Tap into your financial flow and energetic alignment. Use code [SUMMER25] at checkout.

Both available at themonicabravo.com

Book a 1:1 Session with Monica: Ready to clear the cords, oaths, and vows keeping you in the loop? Book a private 90-minute session at themonicabravo.com

Stay busy. Stay productive. Get distracted.

Nobody tells you that grief is not proof something went wrong.

Nobody tells you that what feels like heartbreak is your nervous system going through actual physiological withdrawal — real, not metaphorical.

And nobody tells you that the love you are grieving was never outside of you.

It was always yours.

In this raw and personal episode — recorded outside in her backyard from the middle of an experience, not the other side of it — Monica Bravo shares what she is learning inside grief right now. She reads words from her meditation teacher Peter that stopped her completely. She explains what is actually happening in your body during loss. And she guides you through a short somatic breathing practice you can use anywhere when the wave arrives.

This is not about fixing grief or rushing through it.

This is about understanding what grief actually is — and why feeling it fully is one of the most courageous things you can do.

If you are moving through heartbreak, divorce, a friendship ending, the loss of a version of yourself, children growing up, or parents aging — this episode was made for you.

What you will hear in this episode:

Why grief is not proof something went wrong — it is proof your heart opened

What meditation teacher said about heartbreak and surrender that changed everything

Why the love did not leave with the person — it was always inside you

The real science of what happens in your nervous system during loss

Why not feeling is not healing — and what our culture gets wrong about grief

How grief becomes soul retrieval and brings pieces of you back

A guided somatic practice for when the wave arrives

Monica Bravo is a Shamanic Hypnotherapist, Somatic Practitioner, and creator of the Bravo Bliss Method. She is the author of Soul Retrieval: A Journey Out of Depression Into Wholeness. Everything she teaches she has lived first.

Find Monica on Instagram @themonicabravo or at themonicabravo.com.

If this episode touched you — share it with one woman in your life who is moving through loss right now. Not to fix her. Just so she knows she is not alone.

IF THIS EPISODE TOUCHED YOU:

Share it with one woman in your life who is moving through grief right now. Not to fix her. Just so she knows she is not alone.

CONNECT WITH MONICA:

• Soul Retrieval book: Amazon

• themonicabravo.com

• Stop Self Sabatoage Course: Get it HERE 

In this episode:

• Why cravings, anxiety, and weight are protection responses — not personality flaws

• Monica's personal story: using food for self-love during relationships where she didn't feel enough

• Why some women's bodies literally build weight as armor — and what it means

• The mechanism: how a nervous system stores a charge and builds a strategy around it

• Why insight, clearing, and willpower cannot fully release a somatic charge

• What root-level release actually looks like

Connect with Monica: 

Instagram: @themonicabravo — DM the word READY

Resources:

• Soul Retrieval book by Monica Bravo: Amazon

• Stop the Snack 20-min hypnosis: https://www.themonicabravo.com/stopsnackinghypnosis

• Website: themonicabravo.com

In this episode:

• The full story of the client who came back five times — and what it revealed

• Why insight-only healing has a structural ceiling

• What the body stores that the mind cannot fully process

• The difference between moving energy and removing the root

• What this show is building toward — and what's coming next week for practitioners

Connect with Monica: Instagram: @themonicabravo — DM the word READY for what's coming next

Resources:

• Stop the Snack 20-min hypnosis: themonicabravo.com — $27

• Website: themonicabravo.com

SHOW NOTES TIMESTAMPS

• 1:45 — Why this episode exists and who it's for

• 3:30 — The full story: Renee, session five, the moment of recognition

• 9:30 — The teaching: insight does not equal release

• 14:30 — The practitioner mirror: the moment at the edge

• 18:30 — What's coming next week

In this episode:

• Why real healing is often quiet, not dramatic

• What happened in Monica's breathwork session this week

• The pattern of regulating yourself through other people

• The word that keeps coming through: invitation

• Human Design for Manifesting Generators — responding vs. forcing

• What soul loss actually feels like from the inside

Mentioned in this episode:

• Stop the Snack — 20-minute hypnosis session — [LINK] 

• Monica's website: themonicabravo.com

• Monica's podcast episode/ breathwork sessions: New Moon Breathwork

Connect with Monica:

• Instagram: www.instagram.com/themonicabravo

That sentence tells us everything.

Cravings don’t begin with logic.
They begin with memory.

In this episode, I break down how cravings are actually formed — not from calories, not from lack of discipline, and not from weakness — but from emotional associations stored in the brain and body over years of repetition.

When a client eats chocolate after a stressful call…
When they reach for soda after a long day…
When they binge the same food, at the same time, in the same emotional state…

This happens because the brain has created a “playlist.”
Stress hits → the song plays.
Relief is remembered → the body responds.

And it feels automatic.

This happens because repetition builds a pathway, and emotional relief becomes associated with food.
This happens because the body is trying to feel safe, and you want to feel connected to something or someone, but use the food as the tool.

And when food becomes the quickest path to safety, comfort, or belonging, the craving feels stronger than logic.

In this episode, I share:

• Why cravings are formed through memory and emotional reinforcement
• How childhood experiences wire comfort eating patterns
• Why some women unconsciously use food to stay unseen or protected
• My personal story of using food for safety during difficult seasons of my life
• The neuroscience behind why cravings feel uncontrollable
• How changing the meaning of a food collapses the entire pattern

I also explain how I developed a method to interrupt these patterns — not through willpower, daily affirmations, or long-term hypnosis — but through recoding the memory attached to the food so the craving loses its charge.

Imagine life when the charge is gone, and the desire fades.
Imagine when the meaning of food shifts and the behavior follows.
Imagine when the memory changes, the pattern collapses.

This episode is for:

Health coaches
Practitioners
Healers
Nurses
Hypnotherapists
Anyone who feels frustrated watching clients relapse
Anyone who secretly wonders, “Why isn’t this sticking?”

It’s not a weakness.

It’s wiring.

And wiring can be changed.

If this resonates, I invite you to reach out or explore the method linked below. I am sharing more about how this recode protocol works and how you can integrate it into your practice.

Because once you understand how cravings are formed…

You can finally stop fighting them.

I no longer believe it always takes 3–6 months to change behavior.

In this episode, I go deeper.

If meal plans worked then why do we need to keep giving them week after week…
If detoxes create momentum, then why do our clients go back to eating junk after the detoxes are over?
If accountability is important, then why do our clients continually go through the shame spiral?

And....Why do clients still go back to the same food?

Why does the same pattern repeat — often at the same time, with the same trigger, and the same emotion?

After 15+ years as a board-certified health coach, yoga teacher, hypnotherapist, and somatic practitioner, I realized something critical:

Health coaching often focuses on behavior, recipes, and food allergy elimination.

But cravings are formed at the memory level.

In this episode, I share:

 • Why clients relapse after detoxes because of old memories
 • The “path in the grass” metaphor that explains automatic habits
 • How emotional relief gets attached to specific foods
 • My own struggle with French fries and white-knuckling discipline
 • The moment I realized discipline wasn’t the issue
 • Why pattern interruption is the missing layer in the coaching industry
 • How ancient wisdom + neuroscience changed my approach

If you’ve ever wondered:

“Why isn’t this sticking for my clients or me?”
 “What am I missing since my clients keep sabotaging themselves?”
 “Am I a bad coach?”

You are not alone. You’re not missing willpower.

You’re missing the pattern interruption. The recoding.

Next week, I’ll break down how cravings are actually formed in the brain — and why changing one key element can collapse the entire pattern.

In This Episode You’ll Learn:

• Why is behavior the last step in the change process
 • How repetition creates automatic “paths” in the brain
 • Why white-knuckling never creates lasting freedom
 • The emotional layer beneath recurring cravings
 • How combining yoga, hypnosis, somatic work, and energetic healing creates faster results

For Health, Nurtirion And Wellness Coaches & Practitioners

If this episode stirred something in you — pay attention to that.

There is a deeper way to support clients.

And over the next few episodes, I’ll continue unpacking the layer most coaching programs never teach.

If you want to connect directly, send me a message at
 👉 TheMonicaBravo.com

I’d love to hear what resonated.

In this episode, I challenge one of the biggest beliefs we were taught in health, nutrition, and wellness schools — that behavior change takes months.

After over 16 years as a board-certified health coach, yoga teacher, hypnotherapist, and somatic practitioner, I no longer believe that timeline is always true.

Because sometimes the craving isn’t about discipline.
It’s not about calories or motivation.

It’s about memory.

I share the moment I realized meal plans weren’t enough — and how focusing on one specific food pattern at the root led to shifts that didn’t take months… they took minutes.

You’ll learn:

• Why sugar cravings are linked to emotional relief, not nutrition
 • How the brain creates automatic comfort patterns
 • Why willpower-based coaching keeps repeating the cycle
 • The identity stories (not good enough, not worthy, not disciplined) that drive self-sabotage

This episode is for health coaches, practitioners, and healers who feel there’s something deeper happening in session — and are ready to explore the missing layer.

Next week, I’ll go further into what traditional health coaching leaves out… and why that changes everything.

If you’ve ever quietly wondered why your clients relapse and you’ve questioned whether you’re missing something…
You’re not alone.

And you’re not wrong to feel that something deeper is at play.

Over the next few episodes, I’ll be unpacking the layer most health coaches were never taught — and how it transforms your sessions.

In the meantime, you can check out some of the courses I offer on visibility, hypnosis, and neuroscience.

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Inside this session, you will:

• Reconnect with your body through open-mouth breathing

• Release stress, tension, and emotional weight

• Gather your energy back after holiday demands

• Activate confidence and inner steadiness

• Move light through your crown, heart, and chest

• Return to a grounded sense of self

This episode brings you a calm reset you can use after big family events, late-night cravings, or moments when you feel off balance. Ten to fifteen minutes is enough to settle your nervous system and help you feel clear again.

If you want deeper support this season, join the 21-Day Soul Satiation program. You get breathwork, mirror work, meditations, cravings rewiring tools, meal plans, and emotional reset rituals.
$67 here:
https://www.themonicabravo.com/21daysoulsatiation1

Take a slow breath.
 Come back to yourself.
 You matter.

Monica

This session includes:

• a calm drop-in for the nervous system

• guided breath cues that reduce stress

• emotional release work that helps you interrupt old patterns

• a focus on light through the body for calm and clarity

• reminders that nothing you have done removes your worth

• a 60-second breath hold to release stored tension

• a soft landing that prepares your body for sleep

This session helps you feel lighter, more centered, and at ease. It supports healing around emotional eating, night cravings, and holiday stress. It works well for women who want a simple reset without long sessions or complex methods.

Use this breathwork anytime you want to end the day with peace, self-respect, and a clear mind.

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If food feels like your only comfort during the holidays…

If you’ve tried everything but still end the year feeling stuck in a cycle of cravings, guilt, and emotional overwhelm…

This episode is for you.

I’m Monica Bravo—shamanic hypnotherapist, subconscious healer, and emotional eating expert—and in this episode, I’m walking you through the 5 steps to stop emotional eating during the holidays (without diets, restriction, or shame).

We’ll explore:

• Why cravings are never about the food

• The real reason you feel unsafe in your body (especially at night)

• How to spot and reframe holiday triggers before they spiral

• My 3-part subconscious healing framework 

• Why it’s not your fault—and how to finally shift it at the root

This episode blends somatic healing, nervous system work, NLP, inner child support, and hypnosis to help you pause the binge cycle and rebuild emotional safety from the inside out.

✨ I also share a peek into my Emotional Eating System for only $7 (my most powerful self-led tool). Get it <HERE>

 ...and how to prepare for my upcoming 21-day healing experience: Soul-Level Satiation.

If you’re ready to stop eating your feelings and start trusting your body again—this is your invitation.

🎧 Listen now. Your body is asking for something deeper. It’s time to answer.

I recorded this 15-minute walking meditation with a soothing flute in the background to help you reset your nervous system, energize your metabolism, and step into the healthiest version of yourself.

Walking meditation is more than exercise — it’s reprogramming your mind and body.
 

When you move your body while repeating new thoughts and connecting to your breath, you’re literally building new neural pathways. Each step becomes a message to your subconscious: I choose calm, I choose health, I choose freedom.

I know this works because I lived it.

For years, I used food to cope with stress, and I thought willpower was the only solution. But every time life got heavy, willpower ran out. What shifted everything for me was nervous system support, hypnosis, and somatic practices like this.

That’s why I created CalmCravings™, my mobile app filled with hypnosis, breathwork, somatic tools, and even an AI pocket coach that helps you handle cravings in the moment. It’s trauma-informed, supportive, and built to help women feel safe, free, and enough — without diets or shame.

✨ Try CalmCravings™ for free here → CALMCRAVINGS

For now, enjoy this meditation. Walk with me. Feel your body release tension, feel your mind shift into calm, and notice how your cravings lose their grip.

Remember: you’re not broken. You’re becoming.

With love,
Monica

If your content feels off, forced, or flat…

If you’ve been hiding your real gifts while trying to sound “professional”…

This episode is for you.

I’m Monica Bravo—business mentor, shamanic healer, and tech strategist—and in this episode, I sit down with astrologer and brand visionary Leslie Tagorda, creator of the AstroBrand® Method.

We’re talking about the five branding mistakes that kept me stuck, invisible, and out of alignment—and how understanding my birth chart helped me unlock my voice, own my magic, and finally start attracting clients who get me.

We explore:

• Why your rising sign is your secret weapon in business

• The emotional power of your moon sign (and how it shapes your visibility)

• What your chart says about divine timing + energetic seasons

• Why traditional marketing doesn’t work for intuitive entrepreneurs

• How I blend AI, ads, apps, and astrology to grow a soul-aligned business

If you’re a coach, healer, or creative entrepreneur with a message to share and a mission to serve—but no clear path to visibility—this conversation will transform how you brand, lead, and present yourself.

✨ Ready to align your brand with your chart?

Join Leslie’s AstroBrand® 101 course (starts June 9) → https://starpowered.com/astrobrand101/?affiliate=3219484

Let your brand reflect your soul.

Let your strategy feel like you.

Full Episode on Youtube Here: 

https://youtu.be/UbAugvXRY6U

Together, Monica and Marcy bring fire-starting energy, intuitive clarity, and soul-rooted wisdom to every conversation. These episodes aren’t just content—they’re activations.

You’ll hear real, raw talks on:

• Letting go of what’s expected to do what’s encoded

• Creating from clarity, not confusion

• Using your voice to rewrite your story, your business, your body

• Grief, joy, visibility, collapse, rebirth—and what’s real in between

• Art as medicine, marketing as magic, and movement as manifestation

This is where intuitive women, sensitive leaders, and high-achieving healers come to remember who they are, reclaim their authentic expression, and build lives that align with their internal frequency.

If you’ve ever thought:

“I know I’m meant for more, but I don’t want to hustle to get there.”

or

“I’m powerful, but I’ve been performing instead of expressing”. This podcast is your mirror, your permission, and your reminder.

We speak from the body.

We move from the mystery.

We create from the pulse of what wants to come through.

Come with us. It’s time to stop overthinking and start transmitting.

Marcy: Art Medicine Guide & Founder of The Body Remembers
Get 3 Free Art Medicine Classes: https://www.skool.com/the-art-of-her-awakening-5368/about
Website: https://www.instagram.com/levelupwithmarcy/

Monica: Shamanic Hypnotherapist, Visibility Mentor, Creator of Bravo Bot Bestie
Website: https://www.themonicabravo.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themonicabravo/

This is your sign to pause. To remember: you're not here to initiate from your mind. You're here to respond — to what lights you up.

In this 11-minute breathwork journey, we drop deep into your Human Design strategy and authority using the power of rhythm, retention, and sacral truth. With a 2-in, 4-out breath pattern, you'll reset your nervous system, reconnect to your inner knowing, and reframe waiting as magnetic, not passive.

✨ Inside this episode:

• A 3-min grounding ritual to align with your Generator blueprint

• Activating breathwork (2 in, 4-out) to dissolve "shoulds" and pressure

• Reframing through breath holds & mantras

• Powerful sacral inquiry: Is this my yes? Or someone else’s should?

This isn't just breathwork — it's an energetic realignment. A return to your true pace. A reminder that waiting isn't wasting time — it's building power.

🎧 Press play. Let the breath guide you back to the truth:
 You don't need to hustle for what’s already yours.

Sign up for my LIVE class in person and get your reset.  

🌟  She Walked Away With:

• Clear course name, direction, and foundation to build from.

• Confidence to charge more and update her branding.

• Strategic insight on attracting her dream client and the content to post. 

• Trust in her vision and voice.

• Motivation to build the course and platform from a grounded place instead of scattered energy.

Ready to build your soul-aligned offer and finally get paid for your wisdom?

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