You can analyze your emotional eating. You can know your triggers. You can go to therapy. And yet, emotional eating can still show up. This is one of the most confusing places to be, because you have so much insight and awareness and yet nothing is actually shifting your emotional eating. So you feel stuck.
There’s just a difference between insight and actual behaviour change. So you might understand your compulsion, but you’re still actively in your compulsion with food. So the mind is trying to solve this problem by analyzing it, noticing patterns, but the body keeps repeating the same behaviour.
This doesn’t mean that you’re failing. It just means that you’re looking in the wrong place.
Therapy is really great for awareness and insight – helping you think about your patterns so things start making sense. But what I found working with clients is that what we think is creating our emotional eating isn’t always what’s at the root of the pattern.
The thing is, emotional eating patterns weren’t created cognitively. They were created as a survival mechanism – as a way to create safety, soothe discomfort, manage stress, and cope with unmet needs. And simply understanding the pattern doesn’t automatically tell your body that it’s safe to let go of it.
Let’s dive in
- 1:29 My journey with emotional eating and finding a streamlined way to get to the root beyond journalling
- 2:51 The answer to your emotional eating lives in the body
- 3:30 Your conscious mind guesses the root of your emotional eating but the body holds the truth.
- 4:00 Working with the root requires a safe container to shift the pattern
- 5:40 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
