You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 343.

Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin

feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating

binge eating from your life, and I'm going to show you how by giving you simple

tools and insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarkty. Now let's get to it.

Hi, today I'm talking with you about waiting for your emotions and urges to pass. Something I talk about

often on this podcast is allowing yourself to feel your emotions and urges to pass. Something I talk about often on this podcast is allowing yourself to feel your

emotions and urges. Instead of trying to escape them by eating food or trying to change how you feel

by eating food or trying to feel better by eating food, you just let yourself feel how you're feeling.

You let it exist in your body. You let yourself feel uncomfortable.

And eventually, the discomfort will pass and you will feel better on the other side of it.

But it's not as simple as just waiting for it to pass. It doesn't just take time.

Sometimes people just wait for it to pass and give it time.

And they're waiting for a long time, hours. And when it takes a long time at some point,

they might get sick of waiting and just do what they know will work to stop the feeling.

They eat. They give in to the urge. They eat to change

how they're feeling. And because it keeps taking so long for it to pass, they start to believe that

maybe their feelings aren't temporary, or it's going to take too long for their feelings to pass.

So they become unwilling to feel them through. But it doesn't have to take so long.

There is a reason why their urges and emotions are taking so long to pass. And it's important that

they know why. Because there is something they can do about it. They can facilitate them passing

sooner. So let's talk about

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