About us
Our Mission
At Glow and Flow Holistics, we serve women who are struggling with emotional eating due to stress, anguish, 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 due to depression and anxiety, such as 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 for 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 most of it back due to trauma, and is on the healing journey right now, 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, or 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, and be sure to join our community.
Hi, I’m Delicia. I help women heal emotional eating due to stress, anguish, depression, and anxiety through trauma-informed, holistic support — so they can care for their bodies without shame or diet culture.
My Story: How I Began Glow and Flow Holistics
My name is Delicia. Let me tell you one thing about me right off the bat: I’m not standing on the mountain top of success. I am speaking to you from the arena—where the messiness of healing happens while it’s happening.
How I Was Raised
Growing up in Pensacola, Florida, I watched my dad physically, mentally, and emotionally abuse my mom. She ate emotionally to deal with the trauma she had no escape from. I’ll never forget how he once made her eat an entire cake as punishment for her eating struggles and being overweight. The emotional trauma of that relationship and her emotional eating struggles were a permanent part of her until she passed away at age 60 due to complications of diabetes.
Growing up watching all of this, I learned to eat like she did—to survive.
At 30 years old, I was 300+ lbs. By 40, surgeries that were emergencies left me with chronic back pain that drastically changed everything. At my largest, I weighed almost 400 lbs. I could hardly walk, shop for groceries, or sweep my floor without sitting down because of the pain.
This was no way to live.
First Journey: Discovering What Works
June of 2021 was the point I said enough was enough. I began small—I ate smaller portions; I started making better choices; I walked at the track nearby. On that first day, I could only go around the track once before the pain would force me to sit.
But I continued to go. I went from one trip around the track to two trips. I added weight training. I fell in love with getting stronger.
Within 9 months, I lost 128 lbs. From 353 lbs to 225 lbs. However, I discovered that my lowest weight was not my most comfortable weight. Once I leveled off at 240 lbs, everything clicked. I was feeling strong, healthy, and whole.
This taught me something important. The “correct” number is not always the smallest number. It’s the number where your body feels at peace.
When Abuse Became Part of My Life Again
Then I met someone I thought I was falling in love with, and it ended up being a man with a history of physically and emotionally abusing women. After everything I saw my father do to my mother, after I told myself I’d never become like my mother, how did I allow myself to get into another abusive situation?
However, abuse can be subtle. Before you know it, you're in it.
Throughout the course of that relationship, I stopped taking care of myself entirely. All of the new habits I formed while losing weight disappeared. The weight returned. I was living in chaos. He abused me to the point that I was eventually pushed out of my home by him; I was knocked to the ground, and he nearly ran me over with his car.
My neighbor called my daughter. My nephews changed the locks to my home. Gradually, I allowed myself to release him emotionally until I was finished.
Once I’m finished with someone, I am finished.
Healing After Another Round of Abuse
I think the majority of the weight came back. And yes, I was filled with shame. Crushing shame.
However, I have learned that healing is not linear. Shame is not the answer to long-term healing. Compassion is.
I am healing differently this time. I am working through the emotional scars that caused me to emotionally eat. I am developing habits that promote self-love rather than self-hatred. I am creating morning routines; I am returning to the gym; and I am choosing to take care of myself.
I am not waiting for my body to be smaller to do anything of these things.
Why I Started Glow and Flow Holistics
I started Glow and Flow Holistics because I know I am not alone. There are thousands of women out there who carry emotional weight that manifests in their bodies. Women who have lost weight and regained it. Women who survived trauma and developed emotional eating habits. Women who see themselves as failures in the mirror rather than survivors.
You are not broken. You are not weak. You are not less worthy because of your body size compared to societal standards.
I know what works for weight loss—I’ve done it. But I also know that if you lose weight without dealing with the emotional wounds underneath, you will regain the weight. Dealing with the wounds underneath is the true work. And that is what I want to help you do—not before you, but with you.
A Shared Experience
You don’t need someone who has arrived. You need someone who knows what it’s like to be in the present moment, carrying weight both physically and emotionally, and is willing to continue to grow and heal regardless.
That is me. And I am here for you.
Let’s glow with energy and flow with ease—not because we are perfect—but because we’re brave enough to show up.
You deserve whole health (body, mind, and spirit). You deserve to feel good in your body today—not tomorrow when you’ve earned it.
Are you ready to begin? Join the Glow and Flow Holistics community, and let’s begin healing together.
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