This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. At self-work we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world

and what to do about them.

I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work.

Hello and I'm so glad you've joined me on the 105 episode of self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford.

I'm a clinical psychologist. I practice in Fable, Arkansas for about 25 years now. And I wanted to extend the walls of my practice so began

podcasting two years ago now. I want to reach those of you who may already be on

a journey of doing therapy and trying to understand what

makes you tick. I also want to reach people who may have just been diagnosed with

some kind of mental illness or disorder or who are having problems in their relationship

for some reason and they're looking for answers.

And I want to reach those of you out there who might never darken the door of a therapist but are just

curious enough to listen in to see what somebody like me might have to say.

Today we're going to be talking about comfort eating, using food for comfort.

Now I'm not an obesity expert, I'm not an eating disorder expert, I turn to a colleague of

mine actually for some of this information because she is.

But I've also dealt more with anorexia and binge eating,

and I have even more recently had some gastric bypass patients that I've tried to help them deal

with their emotional connection to food that doesn't go away because their stomachs are smaller.

There's actually a fairly new field of

psychology called food addiction and we'll talk a little bit about that. I'm going

to give you some suggestions here but I'm not a nutritionist and it's really best to reach

out to someone who is.

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