Inner Cue

A Mini-Course on Understanding What Your Urges Are Really Saying

This isn't about willpower. This isn't about discipline. This isn't about fixing what's "wrong" with you.
Your urges aren't your enemy. They're messengers. They're your nervous system trying to communicate something that words haven't been able to say.
When you learn to hear what the urge is actually asking for, something shifts. Not through force. Through understanding.

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Who This Is For

This course is for you if:

  • You find yourself going to extremes with food, substances, shopping, scrolling, or any behavior that temporarily numbs

  • You've tried willpower, discipline, and restriction—and it hasn't worked (or hasn't lasted)

  • You feel shame about your "vice" and want a different relationship with it

  • You're ready to understand yourself rather than punish yourself

  • You sense that the behavior is trying to tell you something, but you don't know how to listen

This is especially for women who have spent their lives being "strong," caring for others, pushing through and whose bodies have found their own ways to cope.


KATE

MACK

The Truth About Vices

It's not the vice. It's what the vice is doing for your nervous system.

You don't go to extremes because you're weak or lack discipline. You go to extremes because the "thing"—food, substances, scrolling, shopping—is acting like a regulator for something inside that feels overwhelming, empty, unresolved, or too loud.

The vice is a solution your body created when you didn't have a better one.

Not a flaw. Not a failure. A response.

What you’ll learn

  • The vice was never the problem. It was your body trying to take care of you the only way it knew how.

    Why you go to extremes (and why it's not your fault)

    • Why the vice works (the nervous system science explained simply)

    • The cycle that keeps you stuck

    • It's not about pleasure—it's about escape

    • Why emotional hunger feels like physical hunger

    • How early patterns created the solution your body still uses

    • Why food specifically becomes "the thing" for so many women

  • You'll learn: How to hear what your body is actually asking for and how to give it to yourself without the vice.

  • You'll learn: You don't fix the behavior. You shift the relationship you have with yourself during the urge.

  • How to make this a way of living, not just a technique you try once.

What you’ll learn

  • The vice was never the problem. It was your body trying to take care of you the only way it knew how.

    Why you go to extremes (and why it's not your fault)

    • Why the vice works (the nervous system science explained simply)

    • The cycle that keeps you stuck

    • It's not about pleasure—it's about escape

    • Why emotional hunger feels like physical hunger

    • How early patterns created the solution your body still uses

    • Why food specifically becomes "the thing" for so many women

  • How to hear what your body is actually asking for and how to give it to yourself without the vice.

  • You don't fix the behavior.
    You shift the relationship you have with yourself during the urge.

  • How to make this a way of living, not just a technique you try once.

What’s included

✓ Four comprehensive sessions with teaching, practices, and reflection prompts

✓ The complete Inner Cue Exercise (the 7-step practice you can use anytime)

✓ Professional PDF handouts:

  • The Inner Cue Exercise reference guide

  • 10 Shifts That Actually Work

  • Why You Go to Extremes (the nervous system science)

  • Micro-Soothing Menu (organized by need with quick options)

  • Daily Practice Tracker (for building the habit)

  • Quick Reference Card (wallet-sized for in-the-moment support)

✓ Journal prompts for each session to deepen your understanding

✓ Practices to implement between sessions so change actually happens

✓ Self-paced access — work through at your own speed, revisit anytime

This Is For You If:

  • You find yourself going to extremes with food, substances, shopping, scrolling, or any behavior that temporarily numbs

  • You've tried willpower, discipline, and restriction—and it hasn't worked (or hasn't lasted)

  • You feel shame about your "vice" and want a different relationship with it

  • You're ready to understand yourself rather than punish yourself

  • You sense that the behavior is trying to tell you something, but you don't know how to listen

  • You want to stop abandoning yourself every time the urge comes

This Probably Isn't For You If:

  • You want a quick fix or magic solution (this is a practice, not a pill)

  • You're looking for a meal plan, diet, or restriction protocol (this isn't that)

  • You're not willing to get honest with yourself about what's underneath

  • You prefer to keep fighting yourself rather than understanding yourself

  • You're dealing with clinical addiction that requires medical intervention (this is complementary to, not a replacement for, professional treatment)

Course FAQ

  • The course has four sessions. You could complete all of them in one sitting if you wanted (about 3-4 hours total). But I recommend spacing them out—one per week—so you have time to practice and integrate. The real work happens between sessions, not during them.

  • Perfect. This course uses food as the primary example because it's the most common, but the principles and practices work for any compulsive behavior: scrolling, shopping, substances, overworking, you name it. The nervous system doesn't care what the vice is; it cares what the vice is doing for you.

  • This course is complementary to, not a replacement for, clinical treatment. If you're dealing with substance use disorder or clinical addiction, please work with appropriate professionals. This course can support your recovery, but it's not addiction treatment.

  • If you complete The Inner Cue and want to go deeper, I offer one-on-one Emergence Sessions for personalized transformation work. Many women start with the course to learn the foundations, then move into sessions for deeper support. You don't have to decide now, take the course first and see what you need.