What if emotional eating wasn’t something to fix, but something to understand? In this episode, Lindsey sits down with Scaled Nation founder Athena Perez to unpack the deeper story behind our patterns with food—and why true healing is less about macros and more about safety, softness, and self-awareness. Athena shares her powerful insights on disarming shame, rewriting narratives, and building the kind of support that actually helps.

What you’ll learn in this episode👇🏽

• Why emotional eating is a signal—not a failure

• What looks like dishonesty is often just disconnection

• Why you can’t fix this with a food plan

• The emotional “types” that show up in our relationship with food

• How to support someone healing without control or critique

• Practical tools for building emotional regulation and resilience

• Why healing is quiet, messy, and absolutely worth it

This one isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence.

Links from the episode:

Point One Vision: www.pointonevision.com

Point One’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/pointonevision

Athena’s Website: www.athenamperez.com

Scaled Nation Website: www.scalednation.com

Athena’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/athenamariebt

Scaled Nation Instagram: www.instagram.com/scaled_nation

Hosted by Lindsey Heidel, The Holy Alive Podcast brings you interviews, advice, and education on how to improve your physical life along with your mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual experiences.

Holy Alive is a production of Point One Vision, a 501c3 nonprofit organization that equips, empowers, and educates the fitness industry to exercise biblical living and what it means to be “strong to serve.”

Music by Coma-Media from Pixabay