My job is to somehow make them curious enough or persuade them by hook or crook to get more aware of themselves and where they came from and what they are into and what is already there just to bring it out.

This is what compels me to compel them and I will do it by whatever means necessary.

Welcome to the Black Girl's Hill podcast where we talk about healing or intimacy disorders and resolve trauma and building a healthy relationship with first ourselves and then others.

Every episode we will talk about advice you can apply today to break unhealthy patterns and grow in your self-worth.

I'm Sheena Lache, love addition coach and trauma specialist. Let's begin.

Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the latest episode of Black Girl's Hill.

I am so excited to be with you this week to bring you more resources and support to help you heal from symptoms of love addiction, love avoidance and love deprivation and the trauma that causes it to make way for the love that you want.

And all of your relationships, your relationship with family, romantic partnerships, friendships and most importantly your relationship with yourself.

Thanks for listening to this week's podcast. Before we get started, let's take a small break to say thank you to this week's sponsors.

Thanks for listening to this week's podcast. Before we get started, let's take a small break to say thank you to this week's sponsors.

And for today's episode, I am super duper excited because we are going to be talking about our relationship with food, with diet culture, with our bodies.

And I have been wanting to talk about this for a long time.

So with me working with women who have intimacy disorders, one thing that you have heard me talk about if you've been in this community for a while is just how this is just one different form of self-medication that we can self-medicate with relationships, with fantasy, with sex.

And oftentimes we will cycle these things out with other things, which is why it goes under the radar, which is why we can overperform in some areas and have high amounts of success and feel like we have everything together, while there's another part of our life that's really falling through the cracks.

And one of the ways that is really common for the women that I work with is emotional eating and our relationship with food.

And I have had different platforms over the years. I've had other opportunities and people who've spoken about this.

But the need to talk about how we use food to self-soothe and to nurture is a really distinct one.

And I was so happy when I came across the platform of our guest today, Dr. Ebony Butler, who's just a phenomenon, and you're going to love this episode as you listen to her.

But I wanted to have someone who could talk about this issue that I felt everybody who listened could relate to that.

Especially those of us who live in black and brown bodies. And so she did a wonderful job.

So before we jump into that episode, I just wanted to share something that I am grateful for.

As you know, practicing gratitude and getting present with what is happening today and not things that might happen in the future that may make you anxious and not things that should have happened in the past,

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