From licensed professional counselor and content creator, Ryann Nicole, comes an accessible and deeply human guide to understanding why food takes up so much space in your head, what keeps the noise loud, and how to quiet it so you can get back to living your life.

In 2014, Ryann realized she was spending an exhausting amount of her life consumed by thoughts about food. Like so many woman, she assumed the answer to quieting her brain was to become better at controlling food. It wasn’t. What she eventually discovered was that food had become loud for a reason. Quieting the noise would require her to stop fighting food and start understanding why her brain was so fixated on it in the first place.

At the heart of FOOD NOISE is a simple four-step framework that emerged from Ryann’s own healing and from years of sitting with clients who couldn’t understand why food still had such a hold on their attention. Drawing from her professional understanding of how the brain works, FOOD NOISE brings the reader into the therapy room through group sessions and composite characters, allowing them to watch the work unfold in real time. Rather than simply telling readers what to do, Ryann lets them sit alongside women wrestling with the same thoughts and fears, resistance and realizations that they may recognize in themselves. The result is a practical guide to understanding what keeps food loud, what quiets food noise, and how to get back to living your life.