Why High-Achieving Women Feel So Out of Control With Food - and How to Break the Cycle | Change_liscious with Bron Elisabeth
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Some women "have it all."
And by "have it all," I mean:
a great job or business, a functioning calendar, a perfect blow-dry... but a private cold war with food, control, exhaustion, self-worth, and the uneasy feeling that if they stop managing every last thing, the whole Ikea bookshelf of life might tip over and take everyone down with it.
If that sounds a little close to home, this episode of Change_liscious may make you feel both seen and gently called out.
Which is ideal, frankly ;)
Because this week I’m talking to Bronwyn Floess, known as Bron Elizabeth, and she’s not here to hand out the usual flimsy wellness advice like "just trust yourself more" and float away on a lavender-scented cloud.
She has something much more real.
First, who is Bronwyn and why this episode is so worth your time?
Bronwyn is a Women’s Health Coach, Pilates teacher, Somatic Coach, and the founder of Bloom Method and FFE - Feminine Flow Eating.
She helps women untangle the deeper roots of binge eating, food obsession, perfectionism, and nervous system overwhelm - which is already far more helpful than being told to drink water and go for a walk.
Her work blends science, intuition, feminine embodiment, and holistic health in a way that feels grounded, thoughtful, and refreshingly human.
Even more interesting: before this work, she spent 7 years as a Chemical Engineer and Product Manager, working with global companies on digital transformation, innovation, customer experience, and operational optimisation.
So she’s not coming at this from a vague "I lit a candle and became my highest self" angle.
She knows high performance. She knows systems. She knows what happens when being wildly competent turns into living like a project manager inside your own bloodstream.
Here’s the part that got me:
The women who struggle most are not the lazy, flaky, can’t-get-it-together ones.
They’re the capable ones. The disciplined ones. The women who can override hunger, tiredness, feelings, pleasure, common sense, and several quiet signals from the body... all before 9:30 a.m.
Bron talks about growing up in South Africa in an entrepreneurial family, learning early that work ethic mattered, achievement mattered, pushing mattered - and quietly absorbing the idea that worth might be something you earn by performing hard enough, perfectly enough, long enough.
A very intense belief system to carry so young.
And because the body is always keeping track, all of that started showing up somewhere.
Food. Control. Restriction. Bingeing. Overriding. White-knuckling. Repeating.
Not because she was weak. Because she was trying to get through life with the tools she had.
One of the most interesting ideas in this episode: Food Control & High-Achieving Women
What if food isn’t the problem?
What if it’s the solution your body came up with when the rest of you was becoming a difficult place to live?
That’s what makes this conversation so good.
Bron doesn’t talk about binge eating or food obsession like they’re proof that you’re broken, lazy, undisciplined, or one motivational quote away from greatness.
She talks about them as regulation. As strategy. As feedback. As the body doing something effective - if not especially sustainable - to create relief.
And once you hear that, it becomes a lot harder to judge your own coping mechanisms so harshly.
She says, "your body is your compass."
Which is inspiring, yes. And also a little inconvenient ;)
Because if your body is your compass, then maybe the answer isn’t buried in another set of external rules, another plan, another app, another expert yelling about protein, another attempt to become the kind of woman who meal-preps in glass containers without resentment.
Maybe your body has been giving you information this whole time.
And maybe the chaos started because you kept treating it like an employee instead of the one thing that actually knows.
A little humbling... But worth considering?!
We also get into why high-achieving women can be especially good at disconnecting from themselves
This part is so important.
Because so many women think their problem is a lack of discipline, when in fact the problem is they’ve been running on industrial-strength discipline since childhood.
They don’t need more control.
They need a safer relationship with themselves.
Bron talks about how the women she works with are often highly intelligent, highly successful, highly functional - and deeply disconnected from their internal cues.
Not because they’re clueless.
Because they got very, very good at following external standards and very, very practiced at tuning themselves out.
That tends to happen when your identity is built around being impressive, reliable, good, and low-maintenance.
Not exactly soothing for the nervous system.
Things this episode pokes at, in case you enjoy being gently confronted:
why perfectionism can wear a very convincing "healthy lifestyle" costume
why food may be doing more emotional heavy lifting than you realized
what happens when your worth gets outsourced to achievement, appearance, or control
why rest can feel strangely uncomfortable
how body boundaries like hunger, taste, fullness, and satisfaction got ignored like emails from HR
why feminine energy is less about flutter sleeves and more about internal safety
The deeper thing underneath all this
This episode is about food, yes.
But it’s also about the exhausting job of becoming someone who looks successful while feeling increasingly less alive inside that success.
It’s about what happens when you’re brilliant at functioning and not always great at receiving. When you can achieve, produce, organize, deliver, optimize - but resting feels uncomfortable and pleasure feels like it should probably be justified in writing.
It’s about what changes when a woman stops asking, "How do I control myself better?"
and starts asking, "What is my body trying to do for me here?"
That question alone may shift your whole way of seeing things.
In the very best way.
Why you’ll want to listen
If you’ve ever:
felt weirdly "good" at self-denial
known exactly what to do and still not been able to do it
used food for comfort, numbness, reward, shutdown, or relief
looked high-functioning while internally hanging on by a thread
suspected your body has been wiser than your mindset for years
this episode will land.
Not in a preachy way. Not in a beige-inspirational-quote way. In a sharp, honest, "well, that hits" kind of way.
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Bronwyn brings a rare mix of brains, body wisdom, lived experience, and no-BS clarity to this conversation.
She’s thoughtful, grounded, funny, and refreshingly uninterested in shallow fixes.
So if you’re ready to rethink food, feminine energy, self-worth, control, and what your body has been trying to tell you while you were busy being impressive, this one’s for you.
Follow Bron Elizabeth at Instagram or check out: www.bronwynelizabeth.com
If your body has been tapping you on the shoulder, clearing its throat, or sending stronger and stronger signals lately, this episode might help you understand why. Food Control Wisdom for high-achieving women is finally out.
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