Hello love,
Did you know that emotional eating is not really about the food? It’s your body’s way of coping with the stress of unprocessed emotions and trauma.
So if diets and willpower haven’t worked for you, we have to go deeper to the body.
Today I wanted to talk about how we can use the body to heal emotional eating. Through my own journey, my work with clients, and observing this pattern, I’ve seen clearly how emotional eating comes from these unprocessed, unresolved emotions that we hold in our body.
In order to cope with this discomfort, we turn to food – to soothe, numb, or distract ourselves from how uncomfortable we feel.
Earlier in my journey, I tried everything you probably have – diets, exercise, willpower. I even tried talk therapy, and nothing seemed to resolve my emotional eating.
That’s where I had to take things into my own hands. I moved to Korea, changed careers, and had to roll up my sleeves and get to the root of my emotional eating because nothing was working. My emotional eating was at an all time high when I moved.
As I began figuring out how to resolve it, I realized that the root of the pattern lives in the body.
Through my own trial and error, reading different books, and experimenting with meditations, I intuitively started putting the pieces together. I realized that the root of my emotional eating could be found in my body.
As I followed this process I was creating, I was able to shift my emotional eating pattern.
Let’s dive in:
- 1:49 What I found when I followed my triggers to the body: emotions and an intuitive knowing of what I needed beyond food.
- 2:09 The role of somatic work for emotional eating and how it helps re-pattern this coping mechanism.
- 6:15 Emotional eating is an alarm about something deeper in the body being triggered.
- 7:06 You don’t have to fight your pattern in the moment – you can work backward.
- 7:45 As you work on your emotional eating you start to catch the pattern in real time.
- 8:45 The old way – you used food to cope; the healed way – you can meet your true emotional needs.
- 10:00 Knowing you can hold yourself through this pattern.
- 12:15 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
Certified Holistic Nutritionist Specializing in Emotional Eating
