one of my favorite women of all time Robin you I never can ever tell you how grateful I am for you

Robin Mice who's been my longtime mindful eating therapist who changed my life I think I came to

start seeing you what was I 2930 maybe yeah, right around there. So for eight years,

you have been in my life and you are just so fantastic. And how- Oh, thanks, Sarah. Well, you are such a

tree. I'm so glad that you're back on the podcast. We are all, of course, dealing with COVID-19,

nonstop. And I wanted to get you on today because

the crazy part is from the moment this has started, I have seen tons of things about, oh my God,

I'm going to get so fat during coronavirus, so much anxiety around food and now seeing a lot

of anxiety around alcohol. So you are my go

to woman. You got me out of the cycle of stressing about food and beating myself up and over

drinking. So I thought, if we need anyone right now, we need Robin Mize. We need to know what are we

supposed to be doing with food and alcohol and anxiety during this really

tough time?

So, you know, that's, of course we're going to turn to these coping mechanisms, right?

When we have them, that's what we do.

It's like if food is the thing you use to comfort yourself, your brain, you read a headline.

And I was just telling you about this new thing I just read about headline stress disorder

where you read something.

And, you know, right now you might be fine, but you read about Italy, you read about New York City.

Yes.

And you get completely stressed out. But what can you do? You're right. You're stuck in your apartment. You're stuck in your house. So the next thought we have is how can I comfort myself? Right. And we reach for what we normally use for that. Is it? And we can't always reach for the things like going out with my friends

or let me go see a movie. We can't do that stuff. So if you're reaching for food, if you're reaching

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