About us
Our Mission
At Glow and Flow Holistics, we serve women who are struggling with emotional eating, depression, and anxiety—women who know that diet culture has failed them because it never addressed what was really wrong. Women who've been through trauma, abuse, loss, and life-altering stress. Women who've tried to "just eat less and move more" but found themselves right back where they started because the pain underneath was never healed.
Women who are tired of the shame. Women who are exhausted from fighting their bodies and their minds. Women who are ready to heal from the inside out.
Our mission is to:
1. Center Emotional & Mental Healing
We address the root causes of emotional eating, depression, and anxiety—trauma, abuse, unhealed pain, and the mental health struggles that make everything harder. Sustainable change is impossible without healing what's underneath. We start with your heart and mind, not your plate or your scale.
2. Honor Plus-Size Bodies
We create a judgment-free space where plus-size women can pursue wellness without shame, restriction, or the demand to shrink. Your body deserves respect and care right now, at the size it is—even when depression makes it hard to care and anxiety makes you hyper-fixate on every perceived flaw.
3. Build Sustainable Habits (Not Perfect Ones)
We teach practical, sustainable habits rooted in self-compassion, not self-punishment. Movement that feels good, even when depression makes motivation hard. Nourishment without restriction or anxiety-driven rules. Wellness practices you can maintain for life, not just when you're feeling "strong."
4. Foster Holistic Wellness
We recognize that true wellness encompasses emotional, physical, mental, spiritual, and financial health. When one area suffers, everything suffers. Depression affects your physical energy. Anxiety affects your sleep. Financial stress affects your mental health. We address the whole person, not just symptoms.
5. Walk the Journey Together
We don't teach from a place of "I've arrived." We guide from a place of "I'm in this with you." Our founder is on her own healing journey with emotional eating, depression, and anxiety, and that authenticity creates a community where real transformation happens—messy, non-linear, but real.
6. Reject Diet Culture & Mental Health Stigma
We refuse to perpetuate harmful diet culture messages or stigmatize mental health struggles. We don't promote quick fixes, restrictive eating, toxic positivity, or the idea that your worth is tied to your weight or your mental health. We promote healing, health, and wholeness—all of you.
7. Create Safe Community
We provide a supportive space where women can be vulnerable, share their struggles with emotional eating, depression, and anxiety, ask for help, and celebrate wins without judgment, comparison, or the pressure to be "fixed."
Our Core Beliefs
Healing comes first. Without addressing emotional trauma, depression, and anxiety, sustainable habits are impossible.
You are worthy now. Your worth isn't conditional on your weight, size, mental health status, or progress.
Health isn't a size. Plus-size women can be healthy, practice wellness, and honor their bodies at any weight.
Mental health is physical health. Depression and anxiety live in your body. Healing your mind supports healing your body—and vice versa.
Sustainable beats perfect. We value consistency over perfection and compassion over criticism. Some days are survival days, and that's okay.
The journey isn't linear. Setbacks, depressive episodes, anxiety flare-ups, and emotional eating relapses are part of the process—not signs of failure.
You can't hate yourself into lasting health. Self-love and self-compassion create the foundation for real change. Shame keeps you stuck.
Your body's wisdom matters. Your "sweet spot" weight might not be society's "goal weight"—and that's okay.
You deserve support, not shame. Emotional eating, depression, and anxiety are not moral failures. They're responses to pain that deserve compassion and proper support.
Vision Statement
We envision a world where women no longer delay living, loving, and thriving until they're "smaller," or "better," or "fixed."
A world where:
- Emotional eating is understood as a coping mechanism for pain, not a character flaw
- Depression and anxiety are met with compassion and proper support, not shame
- Trauma healing is recognized as essential to physical and mental health
- Plus-size women have access to judgment-free wellness resources
- Mental health support is seen as a critical part of holistic wellness
- Health is measured by how you feel and function, not just what you weigh
- Women support each other in healing rather than competing in suffering
- Recovery isn't linear, and that's okay
We're building that world, one woman at a time.
"Heal the heart. Calm the mind. Build a healthy lifestyle. Glow from within."
Who We Serve
Our ideal community member is a woman who:
Struggles with emotional eating and knows it's connected to deeper pain
Battles depression that makes self-care feel impossible some days
Lives with anxiety that manifests in food restriction, overeating, or constant worry about her body
Has experienced trauma, abuse, or significant life stress
May have lost and regained weight (possibly multiple times)
Wants to be healthier but is exhausted by diet culture and mental health stigma
Knows she needs to heal emotionally and mentally before lifestyle changes will stick
Is tired of waiting to be "smaller" or "better" before she deserves care
Needs both compassion AND accountability
Wants to build sustainable wellness practices, not quick fixes or toxic positivity
Is ready to do the real work—the emotional, mental, and physical work—even when it's hard
If that's you, welcome home. We've been waiting for you.
What Makes Us Different
🌟 Lived Experience: Our founder has lost 128 pounds, gained it back due to trauma, and is on the healing journey right now—at 344 pounds, while managing her own emotional eating, depression, and anxiety. She's not teaching from the mountaintop. She's in the arena with you.
🌟 Trauma-Informed & Mental Health Aware: We understand that emotional eating, depression, and anxiety are responses to unhealed pain and nervous system dysregulation. We address the root causes, not just the symptoms.
🌟 Plus-Size Centered: We don't treat plus-size bodies as "before" pictures waiting to become "after" pictures. We honor and care for them as they are.
🌟 Healing-First Approach: We prioritize emotional and mental wellness before physical habits, because that's what creates lasting change. You can't build a healthy lifestyle on an unhealthy foundation.
🌟 Holistic Integration: We address emotional, physical, mental, spiritual, AND financial wellness—because all areas affect each other. Financial stress triggers anxiety. Anxiety triggers emotional eating. Depression affects physical movement. It's all connected.
🌟 No Quick Fixes or Toxic Positivity: We don't promise rapid weight loss, transformation, or "just think positive." We promise real healing, sustainable habits, honest support for hard days, and a community that gets it.
🌟 Authentic & Real: We're honest about the messy parts of healing. We don't filter out the struggles, the depressive episodes, the anxiety spirals, or pretend recovery is a straight line.
Our Promise to You
We promise to:
- Always lead with compassion while maintaining gentle accountability
- Provide accurate, evidence-based information for your wellness and mental health journey
- Create a safe, judgment-free space for your healing
- Be authentic and honest about our own struggles with emotional eating, depression, and anxiety
- Never perpetuate diet culture, mental health stigma, or shame-based messaging
- Honor your individual journey and your body's unique needs
- Show up consistently, even when it's hard—for you and for us
- Celebrate your wins, no matter how small (getting out of bed counts)
- Remind you that you're worthy—always, even on your worst days
- Acknowledge that some days are survival days, and that's enough
We won't promise:
- Quick fixes or rapid transformations
- That healing is easy or linear
- That we have all the answers
- That your journey will look like anyone else's
- That you'll never have hard days, depressive episodes, or anxiety flare-ups again
What we will promise:
- We'll be here, doing the work alongside you
- We'll tell you the truth, even when it's uncomfortable
- We'll hold space for your pain and celebrate your progress
- We'll believe in your worth even when depression tells you you're worthless and anxiety tells you you're not enough
- We'll meet you where you are—not where you "should" be
Join Us
If you're a woman who's been carrying everything—the weight, the pain, the depression, the anxiety, the shame, the exhaustion—it's time to put it down.
Not by shrinking your body or forcing yourself to "think positive."
But by expanding your capacity for self-love, healing, sustainable wellness, and mental peace.
You don't need to earn the right to care for yourself.
You don't need to wait until you're "better" to be worthy.
You don't need to do this alone.
Welcome to Glow and Flow Holistics.
Let's heal together.
Ready to begin your healing journey? Begin your journey by taking the emotional eating assessment by clicking the button below.
Hi, I’m Delicia. I help women heal emotional eating, depression, and anxiety through trauma-informed, holistic support — so they can care for their bodies without shame or diet culture.
My Story: Why I Started Glow and Flow Holistics
A Journey of Healing, Loss, and Beginning Again
My name is Delicia, and I need you to know something right from the start: I'm not speaking to you from some mountaintop of achievement. I'm speaking to you from the arena—doing the messy, beautiful work of healing in real-time.
And I'm inviting you to walk this path with me.
The Beginning: What I Learned as a Child
I was born and raised in Pensacola, Florida, in a home where abuse was a daily reality. My father was a provider—generous in some ways—but he was physically, mentally, and emotionally abusive to my mother.
I'll never forget the sounds that would wake me in the middle of the night. The aftermath I'd see the next morning. Coming home from school to find the house in disarray, knowing something terrible had happened again.
My mother was an emotional eater. I didn't understand it back then—I was just a little girl. But I know now. She used food to cope, to feel better, and to survive. She would hide food because he would criticize her weight. I watched her sit at the kitchen table and cry while he forced her to eat an entire cake as punishment.
That image—more than the bruises, more than the sunglasses she wore to hide the black eyes—stayed with me.
She was plus-size for most of her life, though she was never what I'd call "really big." Still, the shame he placed on her body became shame she carried in her soul. She stayed in that relationship until the day she died at age 60 from complications of diabetes.
And as a child watching all of this, I learned to use food the same way she did—to cope, to comfort, and to survive.
My Own Journey with Weight and Pain
I struggled with my weight for most of my life. By my late twenties, I was over 300 pounds. Physically, I felt strong and didn't have health problems yet, but mentally and emotionally, I was carrying so much more than just physical weight.
Then, in my forties, everything changed. I had an emergency surgery that should have been routine—30 minutes, outpatient. It took over three hours with complications. When I woke up, I had the worst back pain of my life. I literally screamed when I came to.
That surgery started a cascade of complications. I developed issues that required another emergency surgery. I spent days in the hospital, unable to do anything but stare at the wall, wondering if I'd make it through.
I survived, but I came home with chronic back pain that changed my life. I could barely walk. I couldn't sweep my floor, vacuum, or even shop for groceries without having to sit down from the pain. I would walk into work hiding how much I was hurting because I didn't want anyone to know.
My weight climbed. At my heaviest, I think I nearly reached 400 pounds. I stopped weighing myself because it was too painful to see the numbers. My mobility decreased. The pain increased. And I kept eating to cope with all of it.
This was no way to live.
The First Journey: 353 to 225 (And Finding My Sweet Spot at 240)
In June 2021, I decided enough was enough. I had to make a change—for my health, my mobility, and my life.
I started simple: I reduced my portions without changing what I ate. Once I got comfortable with that, I started making healthier food choices. Then I went to the track near my house.
That first day, I could only make it around once. I was in so much pain, I had to sit on a bench before I could even walk to my car.
But I kept going. One lap became two. Two became four. I added weight training at the gym. I worked with a personal trainer who told me I was her hardest-working client. I did intermittent fasting. I meal-prepped with a delivery service for convenience.
And I fell in love with the process. The weight training. Walking in nature. Watching my body get stronger. Feeling the pain in my back start to ease.
In six months, I lost 97 pounds. I went from 353 to 256. Three months later, I was down to 225, losing a total of 128 pounds!
But here's what I learned: my lowest weight wasn't my most comfortable weight. When I settled at 240 pounds months later, everything clicked—it felt more sustainable, and I felt actual joy.
That 15-pound difference taught me something crucial: the "right" number isn't the lowest number. It's the number where your body feels at home.
At 240, I felt good. I felt strong. I looked in the mirror and liked what I saw. Much of my weight was muscle from lifting heavy. I was still considered plus-size (size 14), but I felt healthy and whole.
The Trauma: When Abuse Entered My Life Again
Then I started dating someone new. In the beginning, I didn't realize who he was: a narcissist with a history of addictions and abusing women physically, mentally, and emotionally.
By the time I understood what was happening, I was already in too deep. I couldn't believe it. After everything I witnessed growing up, after promising myself I'd never end up like my mother—how did I end up here?
I beat myself up about it. But now I understand that abuse is insidious. It doesn't announce itself. It creeps in slowly until you're so disoriented, you can't think straight.
Throughout that relationship, I stopped taking care of myself completely. I reverted to the emotional eating I had worked so hard to control. The habits I'd built crumbled. The weight came back.
The abuse escalated. There was a day he pushed me out of my home, knocked me to the ground, and nearly ran me over with his car. I laid in the road watching the tire coming toward my head, knowing I couldn't move fast enough. If he hadn't stopped, I wouldn't be here today.
My neighbor called my daughter. My nephews came over, changed my locks, and made sure he couldn't come back. One nephew, who has so much to lose professionally, was ready to risk it all to protect me. That's when I knew: I can't allow this to continue.
It wasn't immediate. Leaving never is. But slowly, I released him emotionally. I let him go piece by piece until finally, I was done.
Once I'm done, I'm done. No do-overs. No going back.
The Aftermath: Shame, Healing, and Beginning Again
The aftermath of that relationship was hard. I gained most of the weight back—all of it, really. I'm at 344 pounds now, just nine pounds from where I started years ago.
And I felt shame. Deep, crushing shame.
"You went through all that work. You lost 128 pounds. And you let a man destroy everything you built. You allowed yourself to be used, manipulated, and abused. You stopped taking care of yourself completely."
But here's what I'm learning: Healing isn't linear. And shame doesn't create lasting change—compassion does.
I took two weeks off during the holidays after that relationship ended. I used affirmations and prayer and shed many tears. I posted positive messages around my house. I had honest conversations with God. I worked on forgiving myself.
And I'm doing the work now. Differently this time.
This time, I'm healing the emotional wounds first. I'm addressing the trauma that drives the emotional eating. I'm finding self-love again, and I am building habits from it. I'm practicing morning rituals—gratitude, sunlight, meditation, and breathwork. I'm stretching. I'm getting back to the gym. I am building resilience. I'm choosing myself.
Why I Created Glow and Flow Holistics
I created Glow and Flow Holistics because I know I'm not alone.
There are so many women carrying emotional weight that shows up on their bodies. Women who've lost weight and gained it back. Women who survived trauma and used food to cope. Women who look in the mirror and see failure instead of survival.
You are not broken. You are not weak. You are not less worthy because your body is bigger than society says it should be.
I know what works for weight loss—I've done it. But I also know this: weight loss without emotional healing is just a temporary fix. The weight will come back unless you address the pain underneath.
That's the real work. And that's what I'm here to do—with you, not ahead of you.
What You Can Expect from Me
I am not a guru who has it all figured out. I am a real person with real feelings and real lived experiences. I am authentic. And I will always give you my best—accurate information, compassionate support, and the truth about what this journey really looks like.
This is holistic wellness:
- Emotional healing first—because unhealed trauma keeps you stuck
- Physical health that honors your body at any size
- Mental wellness through positive self-talk and self-compassion
- Spiritual alignment through gratitude, prayer, and purpose
- Financial wellness because stress about money affects everything else
You don't have to tackle everything at once. Maybe you start with your emotional health. Maybe someone else starts with movement. Maybe you begin with just one morning ritual.
Whatever you need, you know what you need. And if you need guidance and support, that's what Glow and Flow Holistics is here for.
We're in This Together
I'm at 344 pounds right now, and I'm not waiting until I'm "smaller" to:
- Teach what I know
- Practice self-care
- Build healthy habits
- Believe I'm worthy
- Show up for you
Because the truth is: You don't need someone who's "arrived." You need someone who understands what it's like to be right here, right now, carrying this weight—both physical and emotional—and choosing to heal anyway.
That's me. And I'm here for you.
I'm starting to see the light come back in my eyes. It takes time. I'm learning to give myself grace while holding myself accountable. I'm celebrating small wins. I'm building my foundation slowly, just like I did before—but this time with deeper wisdom about what healing really requires.
Will you come on this journey with me?
Let's work through life together. Let's get better together. Let's do the things that nurture us from the inside out. Let's glow with vitality and flow with ease—not because we're perfect, but because we're brave enough to keep showing up.
You deserve whole health—body, mind, and spirit. You deserve balance. You deserve to feel good in your body right now, not someday when you've "earned it."
You deserve to glow. And I'm here to help you find your flow.
Ready to begin? Join the Glow and Flow Holistics community, and let's start healing together.
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic abuse, please reach out for help:
- National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233
- Text START to 88788
- Visit thehotline.org
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