5 recovery insights from an EMOTIONAL EATING expert with Mary Anne Cohen [Recover Strong]
Love & Learn
Jessica Flint
4.8 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
"I realized that people eat for emotional reasons, starve for emotional reasons, and purge for emotional reasons. Emotions seem to be the strongest trigger."
Mary Anne Cohen is a licensed clinical social worker and is the director at The New York Center for Eating Disorders. She’s authored three books titled Treating the Eating Disorder Self, Lasagna for Lunch, and French Toast for Breakfast. Mary Anne has DECADES of experience as a therapist helping people heal from food and body issues, and she’s also known for coining the term "emotional eating" back in 1982.
Today she has 5 brilliant insights to share to help you recover strong.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Recover Strong, a podcast that will transform your recovery from an eating disorder by helping you go from theory to practice to mastery. |
| 0:10.0 | This is your special time to learn new skills, tools, and get the inspiration you need to recover strong. |
| 0:17.0 | Let's get started. |
| 0:19.0 | Good morning, Warriors, time to start your day. Keep your head up marching on, don't |
| 0:30.2 | understand in your way. Hello there, warrior. I'm your host, Jessica Flint. I'm the founder and CEO of Recovery Warriors, a wisdom sharing platform for all people impacted by an eating disorder. Recovery Warriors provides resources and support to heal your relationship to food, body, mind, and soul. I believe recovery is not only |
| 0:57.2 | possible, but it is worth it. That is why Recovery Strong exists to help you see and connect to the |
| 1:03.8 | potential that lies within you to find freedom from an eating disorder. Today is a Five things feature where we explore and break down a recovery-related topic |
| 1:14.2 | into five digestible ideas so you can get more recovery wisdom in less time. |
| 1:19.5 | Today's topic is five recovery insights from an emotional eating expert with special |
| 1:23.5 | guests Mary Ann Cohen. |
| 1:25.3 | She has many, many decades of experience as a therapist, helping people |
| 1:29.5 | heal from food and body issues, and she's also known for coining the term emotional eating |
| 1:34.8 | back in 1982. Mary Ann is a licensed clinical social worker and the director at the New York |
| 1:40.9 | Center for Eating Disorders, and she's the author of three books titled |
| 1:44.4 | Treating the Eating Disorder Self, Lasagna for Lunch, and French Toast for Breakfast. And before we |
| 1:50.6 | dive into this conversation with Marianne, these five brilliant insights she has to share, I want to say |
| 1:55.6 | thank you to Christy for filling out the listener survey. She asked for ways to continue to move |
| 2:00.0 | forward in recovery and not |
| 2:01.3 | become complacent. In today's show, we'll cover this, particularly when it comes to moving beyond |
| 2:06.7 | the food to further healing, to getting to these deeper root issues. And given recovery is a journey |
| 2:13.0 | that happens one step at a time, we will continue to light the way for you as you move forward |
| 2:17.0 | in your recovery. And dear listener, if you want to share your feedback with us, take a few minutes |
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