Ep #338: Balancing Being Problem-Focused and Solution-Focused
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Do you spend more time thinking about your binge eating and why you do it or more time trying to stop your binge eating? Both are important. But, what's also important is giving both equal time. If you're spending too much time on one and not the other you're missing something that you'll need to help you to stop binge eating.
In this episode, I'm explaining why it's important to find a balance between thinking about the problem and thinking about a solution for the problem. Listen in to find out why so you can make more progress and finally stop the binge eating.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 338. |
| 0:06.3 | 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 |
| 0:17.3 | 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 to it. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello, let's talk about being problem focused and solution focused. When we have a problem, we can be problem focused or solution focused. |
| 0:40.7 | What this means is that we're either analyzing the problem that we're facing, we're looking at what's |
| 0:46.2 | wrong, we're understanding the problem, or we're coming up with a solution, figuring out how to |
| 0:51.4 | solve the problem and are strategizing. So basically, you're thinking about the |
| 0:55.4 | problem you're facing or you're thinking about a solution for the problem. And both are useful. |
| 1:01.5 | Both have a purpose. But when we spend too much time in either of them, we can create another |
| 1:08.3 | problem on top of the problem we already have. So I'm going to talk about |
| 1:13.4 | how each of them are useful and how too much time in either, instead of balancing the two, |
| 1:18.9 | can stop you from solving the problem and possibly create another problem for you. Starting with |
| 1:25.4 | being problem focused. Being problem focused can be helpful in two ways. |
| 1:30.8 | One, it can help you to just vent your thoughts and feelings, get them out and be heard, |
| 1:36.3 | even if it's only you hearing it. There is for sure a time in place for venting and it can feel good |
| 1:43.5 | to vent and it can feel good to just release your |
| 1:46.9 | thoughts out of your brain either onto paper or verbally. And two, being problem focused can help you |
| 1:54.8 | to understand why you feel how you feel, understand what you're thinking, what your opinion is |
| 2:00.2 | as it relates to this problem, what your opinion is as it relates to this problem, |
| 2:01.7 | what your perspective is, and understand why the problem exists. When you're focusing on the |
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