Welcome to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond. This is Dr. Deb Butler, Master Life and Weight Coach and

your coach. And today is episode 30. And we are going to talk about how to separate the joy of eating

from the joy of celebrating. You actually can do both,

and that's what I'm talking about today. Stay tuned.

Hi there, and welcome to all of my, I'm not going to say old, like you're old, but to the listeners

who have been listening for all 30 podcasts so far, welcome back. And if you're new, and maybe

this is your first podcast, I welcome you too. We've talked a lot about eating negative emotions. And today I want to talk

about the exact opposite. I want to talk to you about why you want to disconnect from yourself

when you're feeling positive emotions. I've had a lot of clients lately in my group

and individually who have had a lot of incidents where they're talking about how when they feel

happy because they thought from listening to me that it was just the negative emotions that they

were eating. But they've come

to realize, and I'm sure you might have realized this by now too, that it's not just the negative

emotions, it's also the positive emotions. This podcast is dedicated to all the positive emotions and why you would want to choose to eat mindlessly

when you're happy. Let's start with why would you want to disconnect from yourself when you're feeling

positive emotions? And I think while I have you think about

this, I'm going to give you some examples from one of my individual clients and also from one of my

clients that is in my group right now who also had a similar experience. I want to go over

those experiences with you. And then I want to see if it

will help you relate to yourself when you're feeling a positive emotion and why you'd want to

disconnect from it. So my first client, she's in my group. And everybody in my group is writing food

journals right now. We're doing two or three a week. I'm not

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