Food addiction, ultra processed food recovery, and thought patterns are explored in this episode of Real Food Recovery Podcast™. This conversation focuses on how the brain distorts reality, reinforces emotional patterns, and influences behavior in both food recovery and daily life.
Real Food Recovery Podcast™ was created from a deeply personal journey through processed food addiction, recovery, and the search for lasting peace. After decades of struggle, Paige Alexander now uses this space to share honest conversations, practical tools, and real life insights to help others break free from food obsession and rebuild trust with themselves.
This is Part 1 of a 2 part series with Natalie Ellis. Be sure to listen to Part 2 where the conversation shifts into metabolic health and simple daily habits to restore energy.
In this episode, Paige sits down with Natalie Ellis, a certified life coach with a degree in Human Development from Brigham Young University, to explore the powerful connection between thoughts, emotions, and behavior, especially in the context of recovery and motherhood.
Natalie teaches a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that focuses on how thoughts shape feelings, actions, and results. Together, they break down the ways the brain can distort reality, influence decisions, and keep people stuck in patterns that no longer serve them.
You will learn how to recognize mental patterns, challenge unhelpful thoughts, and begin creating more intentional, grounded responses in both your relationship with food and your everyday life.
Natalie is also the host of the Motherhood Matters podcast and works with women who want to strengthen their influence through emotional awareness and regulation. She and her husband Matt have been married for 27 years and are raising five children.
This conversation offers practical tools for anyone who feels overwhelmed, reactive, or stuck, and provides a path toward greater clarity, self awareness, and lasting change.
Find Natalie Ellis on Instagram or email her at natalie.ellis.coaching@gmail.com.
Real Food Recovery Podcast™ is an original educational podcast focused on healing your relationship with food, rebuilding self trust, and creating a sustainable, recovery aligned way of living. © 2026 Paige Alexander All rights reserved.
What is Real Food Recovery Podcast?
If you feel stuck in cycles with ultra-processed food, cravings, weight struggles, and a loss of control, you are not broken, and you are not alone. Hosted by Paige Alexander, this podcast goes beyond diets, calorie counting, and quick fixes to uncover what’s really driving your relationship with food.
You’ll learn how to:
• Break free from ultra-processed food dependency
• Rebuild trust with real, whole, single-ingredient foods
• Understand the science behind cravings and habits
• Heal the emotional patterns tied to food
• Create sustainable weight loss without obsession
This isn’t about restriction, it’s about restoration. In this new chapter of Real Food Recovery, Paige brings a deeper, more personal approach to what it truly takes to find freedom with food. If food isn’t the answer…let’s start asking better questions.