What if emotional eating isn't really about food?

For years, Amber Romaniuk believed that losing weight and achieving the perfect body would finally make her feel happy, confident, and worthy. But when she reached her goal weight, nothing changed.

In this episode of A Beautiful Fix, I'm joined by Amber, an emotional eating, digestive health, and hormone expert and founder of Amber Approved, for an honest conversation about emotional eating, body image, self-sabotage, and the deeper patterns that keep us stuck in the cycle of trying to fix ourselves.

Amber shares her deeply personal journey through binge eating, body shame, and perfectionism—and what finally helped her rebuild her relationship with food, her body, and herself.

We also explore:

• Why emotional eating is often about more than food or willpower
• How stress, shame, and perfectionism can fuel self-sabotaging behaviors
• The connection between hormones, perimenopause, menopause, and eating patterns
• The difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger
• Why weight loss doesn't automatically create self-worth
• Amber's perspective on GLP-1 medications and the importance of addressing underlying patterns
• How her 3/6 Splenic Manifestor Human Design reflects her journey of learning through lived experience
• Why self-compassion and prioritizing yourself are essential parts of personal transformation

Whether you're navigating body image struggles in midlife, questioning old habits, or simply exhausted from feeling like there's always something about yourself you need to fix, this conversation is a reminder that your worth was never dependent on a number on the scale.

Maybe the most important relationship we can change isn't the one we have with food or our bodies. Maybe it's the one we have with ourselves.

Connect with Amber Romaniuk

Website: https://amberapproved.ca

Free Resources: Visit Amber's website to explore her free Emotional Eating Quiz and Hormone Quiz.

Work with Amber: Book a complimentary 30-minute Body Freedom Consultation to learn more about her coaching and approach to hormone health.

Podcast: The No Sugarcoating Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-no-sugarcoating-podcast/id1158699464 https://amberapproved.ca/podcast/

Instagram: https://instagram.com/amberromaniuk

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When did having fun become something we save for after everything else is done?

Between career burnout, midlife responsibilities, and the endless to-do lists, I started wondering if we've forgotten how to make room for the good stuff. This week, I'm talking about little pleasures, big realizations, and my rather embarrassing relationship with The Young and the Restless. Hehe.

Plus, an invitation to join me November 12 for a girls' night with author Kristy Halvorsen to talk about her memoir, Perfect Unfolding. No finished book required!

Join us! https://www.abeautifulfix.com/pages/a-beautiful-fix-bookshelf#PerfectUnfolding

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What happens when the very qualities that make you successful are the same ones burning you out?

Erika Coleman was a lifelong high achiever who believed that if she worked hard enough, pushed a little further, and gave everything she had, things would work out. Until they didn’t.

After navigating her mother’s terminal illness, the loss of her business, and a level of burnout so severe she could barely function, Erika found herself questioning everything she believed about success. So she went to Harvard to study stress, motivation, well-being, and high performance.

What she discovered changed everything: Sometimes burnout isn’t about doing something wrong. It’s about taking your greatest strengths too far.

In this episode of A Beautiful Fix, Erika and I unpack the hidden cost of overachieving, why giving your all isn’t necessarily giving your best, and how to pursue big dreams without sacrificing your health, relationships, or happiness.

We get into the early warning signs of burnout, the difference between healthy stress and harmful stress, and why your relationship with yourself might be the most important measure of success.

Erika also introduces her concept of Even Achieving, a healthier, more sustainable approach to ambition that doesn’t require you to stop dreaming big. And we explore her Human Design as a 1/3 Sacral Manifesting Generator, including why pivoting, trusting her gut, and learning through experience have played such important roles in her journey.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re carrying the world on your shoulders, struggling to slow down, or wondering why achieving more doesn’t necessarily make you feel better, this conversation is for you.

Connect with Erika Coleman

Erika is a speaker, entrepreneur, and high-performance coach who helps ambitious people build a healthier relationship with stress and success through her Even Achieving approach.

Website: https://erikacolemanspeaks.com

Free Achiever Mode Quiz: https://achievermode.scoreapp.com

Explore Erika’s keynote speaking, workshops, and high-performance coaching on her website, or take her free quiz to discover your achievement strengths and where you might benefit from a little more balance.

Until next time, keep getting high on life, one beautiful fix at a time.

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Calling all my fall-loving, book-obsessed girlfriends. This one’s for you.

I’m recording this with a suitcase to pack and a plane to catch because my husband and I are heading to Colorado to celebrate 30 years of marriage. THIRTY. We’ve known each other for 40 years, and I genuinely have no idea how that happened.

But before I go, I have some things to tell you.

First, can we talk about fall? The sweaters, the bookstores, the crisp air, the excuse to stay home with a good book. I’m obsessed. And apparently, all this fall energy has me on a creative tear because I’ve been building something for you.

Introducing the A Beautiful Fix Bookshelf!

I’ve gathered the books my podcast guests have written and recommended into one curated library. It’s full of incredible reads, and I’ll keep adding to it with every new episode.

And speaking of books, we’re having a girls’ night in!

On November 12 at 7 PM Central, I’m hosting a free virtual book club with Kristy Halvorsen, author of Perfect Unfolding, a memoir about seven years of solo travel, unexpected adventures, and following the life that’s calling you.

Think cozy blankets, something warm to drink, and an evening hanging out with the author herself. Cameras on or off, book finished or unfinished. Come as you are.

In this episode:

• Celebrating 30 years of marriage (and wondering where the time went)
• Why fall will forever be my favorite season
• My brand-new bookshelf of guest-recommended books
• A free virtual book club with author Christy Halverson
• A little reminder from Mother Nature about the beauty of letting go

Explore the A Beautiful Fix Bookshelf:
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Save your spot for our free November 12 book club with Christy Halverson:
https://www.abeautifulfix.com/pages/a-beautiful-fix-bookshelf#PerfectUnfolding

Grab your favorite sweater, find something good to read, and come nerd out with me.

Until next time, keep getting high on life, one beautiful fix at a time.

xo, Tracy

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What if fear isn’t a sign to stop, but an invitation to become who you were always meant to be?

In this episode of A Beautiful Fix, Tracy sits down with Samantha Norman, brand strategist and founder of Cradle to Grave Creative, for a conversation about fear, identity, starting over, and what happens when the life you thought you were supposed to want falls apart.

After losing her mom, her marriage, her home, and eventually a job she loved, Samantha found herself starting over and asking a question many of us eventually face: Who am I now?

Samantha shares what it took to stop living from fear, why courage doesn’t mean waiting until you’re no longer afraid, and how one simple question, “Why not?” helped her begin building a life on her own terms.

Tracy and Samantha also explore the difference between fear that warns us and fear that shows up when we’re expanding, why so many of us are more afraid of looking stupid than actually starting, and Samantha’s “Who Before What” philosophy. Before we figure out what to say, sell, build, or do next, we have to understand who we really are.

Plus, Tracy dives into Samantha’s Human Design as a 6/2 Sacral Manifesting Generator and the season of life she’s in now, one where she’s learning she doesn’t have to push, rush, or treat everything like an emergency.

In this episode:
• Doing it scared and learning to move with fear instead of letting it make your decisions
• Starting over when the life you built no longer fits
• The question “Why not?” and what it can reveal about the stories holding you back
• Fear versus intuition and recognizing when discomfort is actually growth
• Why authenticity matters in life, not just in business
• Samantha’s “Who Before What” approach to personal branding
• Why you may not be afraid to start, you may be afraid to look stupid
• Samantha’s 6/2 Sacral Manifesting Generator Human Design
• Slowing down, trusting yourself, and realizing not everything is an emergency

Connect with Samantha:
Find Samantha on Instagram at @SammiNormanFit. If you’d like to take her up on her offer of an intro call and 90-day action plan, just send her a DM and let her know you heard her on A Beautiful Fix.

If this conversation leaves you with one question, let it be this: What would you do if fear didn’t get to make the decision?

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I have had three near death experiences in my life. Whitewater rapids in Ontario. A riptide as a toddler. A frozen glove on a ski lift with my father. And in every single one of them the only thing that saved me was surrender.

That is where today's episode begins.

This is the tenth and final principle in the Yamas and Niyamas series and it is called Ishvara Pranidhana. It translates as surrender, or devotion to something greater than yourself. And it is not about giving up. It is about releasing your grip on the outcome and trusting that life knows something you do not.

In this episode we get into what surrender actually looks like in everyday life, the difference between contraction and expansion and how to recognize which one you are in, why savasana at the end of yoga class is one of the most important practices there is, the three stories from my own life where letting go was the only way through, and what Deborah Adele writes in The Yamas and Niyamas about melting into the stream instead of fighting the current.

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What if that feeling you keep brushing off isn’t just a coincidence?

This week, I’m sitting down with psychic medium and Human Design teacher Becca Francis for a fascinating conversation about intuition, self-trust, mediumship, Human Design and learning to listen to the inner knowing we so often dismiss.

Becca spent years in the corporate world feeling increasingly miserable and trying just about everything to find her way out. Then Human Design found her, and what started as curiosity eventually changed the trajectory of her life. It also helped create the space for another part of herself to emerge: the psychic and mediumistic abilities that had quietly been there all along.

We talk about how Becca learned to recognize and trust those abilities, what it actually feels like when she connects with spirit, the difference between psychic work and mediumship, and why she believes intuition is something we all have access to.

We also get into the difference between intuition and our own thoughts, why self-trust is so important, how to start noticing and documenting your own intuitive hits, and one simple question Becca uses with her students when they’re tempted to dismiss something as coincidence:

What if?

We also talk Human Design, including how it helped Becca leave a career that no longer felt right, what it means to be a 6/2 Emotional Generator, and why neither of us believes you need to memorize every gate, channel and detail to begin experiencing the wisdom of your design.

If you’ve ever had a feeling you couldn’t explain, known something before you had any logical reason to know it, wondered whether a loved one who has passed is still connected to you, or simply wanted to trust yourself a little more, this conversation is for you.

CONNECT WITH BECCA

Website: BeccaFrancis.com
Instagram: @thebeccafrancis
TikTok: @beccafrancismedium

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How well do you actually know yourself?

Not your preferences, your go-to coffee order, or the labels you can rattle off without thinking. The deeper version. The you that existed before the world started layering its expectations on top of you.

That is what today is about.

Svadhyaya is the fourth Niyama in the ancient yogic tradition and it translates as self study. In this episode we get into what self study actually means beyond hitting the books, the conditioning that starts in childhood and the boxes we live inside of without realizing it, the mirror experiment that reveals more about you than you might expect, the beginner's mind and why the older I get the less I feel I actually know, and the 99% principle that might be the most useful thing Deborah Adele shares in this entire chapter.

I also share something I have been sitting on for more than a year. Something for the woman who is ready to give herself an entire season of her own attention.

If you have been on a lifelong quest to understand yourself, this one was made for you.

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