Ep #178: How to Stop Being Afraid of Your Urges

The Stop Binge Eating Podcast

Kirstin Sarfde

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 559 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

If you're afraid of your urges, you're not going to allow yourself to feel them. You're going to do whatever you can to avoid them. So once one pops up, you're probably going to get food ASAP to avoid what you're fearful of.

In this episode, I'm going to help you drop that fear you've been experiencing so you can get through your urge without eating food. You don't have to be so afraid of you urge. Listen in to how you're going to do it.

Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!

Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/178

Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 178.
0:06.4	Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin
0:11.8	feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating
0:17.4	binge eating from your life, and I'm going to show you how by giving you simple
0:21.1	tools and insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get
0:27.5	to it. Hi, today I'm talking about a very important topic. It's about being afraid of your urges. This is important because having a
0:43.2	fear of urges is one of the top reasons why people don't allow themselves to feel urges and why
0:50.4	they run to food as soon as they feel an urge. When you feel fear, you will most likely
0:58.5	react with either a fight, flight, or freeze response. And the one I see happen most commonly with
1:05.4	people who are fearing urges is the flight response. They feel the urge, then they feel the fear, then they're out.
1:13.0	How do I make this stop? Where is the food? They may think that the urge is scary, but it's not.
1:22.3	The urge is just discomfort happening in your body. It's sensations happening in your body. There's also
1:30.5	thoughts happening in your mind. These things are not scary unless you think they are. That's where
1:40.6	the fear comes from. Fear happens when you're thinking scary thoughts about your urge.
1:47.7	You're thinking scary thoughts about what the urge means. You're thinking scary thoughts about what's
1:53.3	going to happen. You're thinking scary thoughts about what you're feeling. And all of this is all in
2:00.1	your head. Most likely, none of it is even true. You're just
2:04.9	exaggerating, over-dramatizing, and imagining the worst-case scenario. And that's not the way to be
2:12.6	thinking about an urge if you want to be willing to feel the urge instead of eating. You are not going to be willing
2:19.1	to feel an urge without eating to make it go away if you're afraid of the urge. Think about anything
2:25.3	else that you're afraid of. If you can find a way to not experience it and get around it,
2:30.5	you're probably going to. With your urges, eating is going to be an easy way to not experience
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