Hello love,
I wanted to share what I believe is the secret to stopping emotional eating, and what is often overlooked. While there’s no magic bullet for solving emotional eating, I think this comes pretty close.
A lot of women miss this:
Emotions.
Think about it: emotional eating is driven by emotions.
You would think this would be obvious—it’s right there, staring us in the face. Yet, we tend to turn to diets, exercise plans, and even “talking” about our emotions in therapy, but we don’t truly understand what emotions are and why they drive this behavior.
Instead, we chase after the latest shiny “solution” for emotional eating, without directly addressing the root issue.
Emotional eating is a coping mechanism—it’s where we use food to soothe our emotions. It doesn’t resolve our emotions or help us process them. We’re using food as a Band-Aid, rather than meeting our true needs, which our emotions are trying to communicate to us.
Moving through our emotions isn’t about intellectualizing them. It’s about accepting and acknowledging them in an embodied way.
We can name our emotions—say we’re happy, sad, angry, etc. But how many of us actually move through our emotions?
As emotional eaters, we’re not doing that. Instead, we turn to food to soothe our discomfort.
Let’s dive in:
- 2:00 – What are emotions and how do they show up in the body?
- 3:00 – The “secret” to resolving emotional eating
- 3:50 – Why it can be complex, and why we miss this point
- 4:50 – We want to be non-emotional, but true calm comes from embracing emotions, which breaks the emotional eating cycle
- 6:07 – Start tracking your emotions—emotional eating episodes are a great place to begin
- 7:19 – Two ways emotions show up: small and big triggers
- 7:50 – What emotions are here to do
- 9:00 – Unprocessed emotions live in the body and trigger emotional eating unless we address them
- 10:20 – Specific unresolved emotions are traumas that fuel the emotional eating pattern
- 11:10 – Intelligence is valuable, but it can disconnect us from our emotions and prevent us from being embodied
- 12:35 – Free resources and next steps
Next Steps
1. If you are ready to start your journey to resolving your Emotional Eating you can download my free guide “What Are You Truly Hungry For?” to start discerning true from emotional hunger and catching your triggers HERE.
2. If you are ready to transform your emotional eating so that you can get to ease, peace and confidence around food and in your body with a step by step process and guidance then find out more about The Emotional Eating Evolution Program HERE.
To stopping emotional eating,
~Michelle
Certified Holistic Nutritionist Specializing in Emotional Eating
