Emotional Eating Feels like a Food Problem But It’s Just a Symptom of Something Deeper.

by | Dec 19, 2025 | Blocks to Emotional Eating, coping mechanism, Emotional Eating, Emotional Eating Triggers, Emotional Health, healing emotional eating, Trauma Informed

Hello love,

If you think emotional eating is about the food, think again. Most women are trying to fix a symptom, and they’re not actually resolving it at the root. I get it. I’ve been there, too. I struggled with emotional eating, and my clients have as well. 

So emotional eating can feel like it’s a food problem, because you see yourself feeling out of control with food. You’re eating large quantities of food and constantly thinking about the food, but it’s just the symptom. 

There’s so much more going on at the root. When I was struggling with emotional eating, I thought the same thing too. I thought if I found the right diet, if I exercised enough, I would fix this. Then I got a bit smarter, and thought that if I went to therapy, that would help, but nothing seemed to really hit the nail on the head. 

What I discovered after hitting rock bottom, moving to Korea and having to figure this out was that emotional eating was my coping mechanism. It was the way I dealt with a lot of unprocessed emotions and triggers that would come up. It was my way of meeting these emotional needs. My emotional eating would come on so quickly that I couldn’t discern that. I couldn’t figure it out in the moment. I had to really look at the pattern and I see this time and time again with clients. When I’m looking at their triggers, looking at what’s happening with their emotional eating, I can see it so clearly. 

There are there are unresolved emotions coming up, triggering them, and unmet needs. And that’s what’s really driving this pattern. 

Let’s dive in.

  • 1:37 So what is emotional eating?
  • 2:10 How emotional eating plays out with a real world example of my client Kelly
  • 3:53 The big mistake that women make when trying to stop emotional eating
  • 4:23 How to actually move through this with a step by step process to get to ease and confidence around food and in your body
  • 5:57 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 resolution,

Michelle