Emotional Eating - How to Replace Emotional Eating with Emotion Processing and Intuitive Eating

Therapy in a Nutshell

Therapy in a Nutshell -Emma McAdam

Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Learn how to process emotions in my online course: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing Emotional eating is when you eat in an attempt to resolve emotions instead of eating to resolve hunger. But when people are asking "How to stop emotional eating? The first step is to learn to process emotions and listen to what your body is really asking for - aka intuitive eating. Most of the time, when we’re overeating, or under-eating, it’s because we’re seeking to regulate our emotions with food, instead of regulating our emotions by processing them. So the first step is to ask yourself “Why am I eating this? You don’t need to judge yourself for doing it, just get curious. If I’m eating and it's not because of hunger, what am I feeling? Learn how to make funeral potatoes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGVAJashAEs&t=1s Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/?utm_medium=YTDescription&utm_source=Podcast Support my mission on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therapyinanutshell Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.therapyinanutshell.com?utm_medium=YTDescription&utm_source=Podcast Check out my favorite self-help books: https://kit.co/TherapyinaNutshell/best-self-help-books Therapy in a Nutshell and the information provided by Emma McAdam are solely intended for informational and entertainment purposes and are not a substitute for advice, diagnosis, or treatment regarding medical or mental health conditions. Although Emma McAdam is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the views expressed on this site or any related content should not be taken for medical or psychiatric advice. Always consult your physician before making any decisions related to your physical or mental health. In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life's direction. And deeper than all of that, the Gospel of Jesus Christ orients my personal worldview and sense of security, peace, hope, and love https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/believe If you are in crisis, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ or 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or your local emergency services. Copyright Therapy in a Nutshell, LLC

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Therapy in a Nutschell podcast. I'm Emma McAdam, a licensed marriage and family therapist,
0:06.0	and it's my mission to create easy to understand educational content about therapeutic skills and topics that anyone can use in their daily life.
0:14.0	Stay tuned until the end of the video to learn more about my mental health courses, discounts, and other news related to therapy in a nutshell. I hope you
0:22.1	enjoy the episode. Each podcast episode comes from a corresponding video you can find on the
0:27.9	Therapy in a Nutshell YouTube channel. Also, these podcasts are educational and don't replace the
0:33.6	advice or direction you may be receiving from a therapist or other health professional.
0:38.3	Alright, let's jump in.
0:40.3	When people try to improve their weight or improve their health, usually the first go-to approach is to diet, to restrict what they eat.
0:49.3	But the most common outcome from dieting is in the long run, actually weight gain.
0:53.3	Now, diets don't work the vast
0:55.6	majority of the time. And, you know, there's a lot of reasons for this, including they put you at war
1:00.6	with food. They put you at war with your own body. But one of the main reasons for this is that people
1:06.0	are eating for reasons other than hunger. Your body has an inherent ability to regulate your eating based on the
1:12.5	nutrients your body needs. It helps you regulate this with hunger and fullness cues and with craving
1:18.8	foods that include the nutrients you need to be healthy. Now intuitive eating helps people let go of a
1:24.7	diet mentality and develop a positive relationship with food and their
1:28.8	body and themselves and reject diet culture and these rigid external rules about good foods or bad
1:35.3	foods. And intuitive eating has also been shown to help people recover from disordered eating
1:40.4	and reach a healthier BMI. But most of the time, when we're overeating or
1:46.0	under eating, it's because we're seeking to regulate our emotions with food instead of regulating
1:52.0	our emotions by processing them. So the first step when you're struggling with emotional
1:56.7	eating is to ask yourself, why am I eating this? A lot of times people just really hyper
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