Ep #310: Reacting vs Pausing
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
If you're engaging in behaviors you don't want to engage in, you're most likely doing more reacting than pausing. When you're reacting, you're just doing what you're feeling driven to do without much thought. But when you pause, you're thinking about what you're going to do and you're actually giving yourself more of a choice about what you're going to do.
In this episode, I'm going to help you to do more pausing. Listen in to find out how you'll do it.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 310. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin feeling confident and in control around food. |
| 0:15.0 | You are absolutely capable of eliminating binge eating from your life, |
| 0:19.0 | and I'm going to show you how by giving you simple |
| 0:21.4 | tools and insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get to it. |
| 0:30.1 | Hello, today I'm talking with you about reacting versus pausing. These are two options you have when you're feeling an emotion, when you're |
| 0:40.5 | thinking about overeating or binging, and when you're feeling an urge to overeat or binge. You can react |
| 0:47.4 | to what you're thinking and feeling or you can pause. When you're reacting, it means you're |
| 0:52.6 | going along with what you're thinking and you're doing |
| 0:54.7 | what your emotions and urge are driving you to do. Basically, you're following the think, feel, |
| 1:01.6 | act process, which is part of the thought model that I've talked about a little bit on the podcast. |
| 1:07.8 | You think a thought, that thought causes you to feel an emotion, and that emotion |
| 1:12.0 | drives you to act. When you're following that process, you're reacting to your emotions, |
| 1:18.7 | you're doing what they're driving you to do, and it can look like this. You think, |
| 1:23.5 | I want to eat. That thought causes you to feel desire for food, and you react to that desire |
| 1:30.7 | by eating food. You feel the urge to binge, so you feel driven to binge, and you react to that |
| 1:37.8 | urge by binging. Or you're feeling an uncomfortable emotion or an urge, and you want to feel better. |
| 1:43.6 | So you think, I want to eat something in want to feel better. So you think, I want to eat |
| 1:45.8 | something in order to feel better. And that thought causes you to feel desire for food and you react |
| 1:52.3 | to that desire by eating the food. And this process happens with emotions that drive non-eating |
| 1:58.7 | reactions too. You feel angry and you react to the anger by yelling. |
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