What if one of the things keeping you stuck in your emotional eating is your desire to get away from your emotions?
So I want to tell you a story about a client of mine who came to me after using plant medicine because she wanted to change the way she felt about food and stop emotionally eating.
She had used plant medicine to help her with her emotional eating, and the medicine kept telling her the same message: she needed to figure out how to find ease, peace and oneness in real life – not just by using this modality.
When she felt that one with the universe, she felt at peace. This is a very euphoric feeling. If we don’t know how to experience ease and peace in our day-to-day life, the way we’re living and the emotions we’re feeling can start to feel torturous. And that can trigger us into emotional eating.
So, this experience she had was pretty amazing because it showed her she needed to find a way to feel this peace in her day-to-day life. I thought this was really profound because this is the day-to-day work we need to do to actually heal.
Not just by finding a way to escape the discomfort we’re feeling, but learning how to move through it and transform it.
I think there was something we often misunderstand about emotional eating. We feel like we must escape it. We want relief. Of course, it feels torturous to be eating food and feeling out of control.
You might realize you feel anxious, sad, or overwhelmed. And you don’t necessarily want to sit there and just feel all of that. You want it to stop.
And that’s exactly what food does. It gives you temporary relief. Much like that plant medicine journey gave my client relief, food is doing something very similar.
Let’s dive in.
- 1:55 Plant medicine and food – they can be used to cope but don’t give a process to heal the root of emotional eating (so it keeps coming back).
- 3:22 Emotional eating is really about this.
- 5:04 What happens when we don’t learn to feel our emotions.
- 6:27 Learning what to do when triggered emotions come up and how you stop this process.
- 7:23 What your emotions are telling you.
- 8:56 The goal is not to be calm all the time and avoid triggers to emotional eating.
- 10:28 The deeper work is not in just understanding it’s here.
- 11:06 My clients experience with her emotions and emotional eating and how she learned to get to ease and peace.
- 12:38 Why plant medicine is not a sustainable process.
- 14:01 The Emotional Eating Evolution Program 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 ease and peace,
Michelle
Certified Holistic Nutritionist Specializing in Emotional Eating
