You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 351.

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, Kirsten Sarfdy. Now let's get to it.

Hi. Let's talk about feeling good all the time. It's something so many of us would love to experience. We'd never feel

uncomfortable, never feel bored, anxious, stressed, overwhelmed, lonely, or any other uncomfortable

emotion. All we'd feel is happy, excited, content, connected, love, loved, feelings that feel good. It might sound like an

ideal way to live. But unfortunately, it's just not going to happen. It is not attainable for us humans.

Even if we have our dream jobs, dream partner, dream family,

dream social life, dream home, dream everything, we're still going to experience negative

uncomfortable emotions. It's just inevitable and unavoidable because we are not in control

of everything and everyone. and we can't even be

100% in control of our own thoughts and the emotions they cause us to feel. So people are going to do

things that we don't agree with and things we don't like. We are going to have negative interpretations of

things and things are going to happen that we perceive as bad, sad, annoying, frustrating,

stressful, or overwhelming. That's part of being human. But many people don't accept this.

Or at least they don't accept the frequency and intensity of negative, uncomfortable

emotions that is normal to feel. They think they should feel good more. And here's the crazy thing

that can happen sometimes. They get upset about not feeling better. And in doing that,

they're right there stopping themselves from feeling better.

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