Ep #355: Why You Should Be Kind To Yourself
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Too often, people think that being hard on yourself, and being harsh with yourself is how you get yourself to change and do better. In this episode, I'm going to show you why it isn't.
Doing the opposite, and being kind to yourself is actually pretty powerful. It's not necessarily you being too soft with yourself, or making excuses, it's you choosing to support yourself in a way that will actually help you. So listen in hear the ins and outs of unkindness vs kindness, and what effects they really have, so you can make sure you're talking to yourself in a way that's actually going to be helpful.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 355. |
| 0:06.5 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin |
| 0:11.9 | feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating |
| 0:17.5 | binge eating from your life, and I'm going to show you how by giving you simple |
| 0:21.3 | tools and insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarty. Now let's get |
| 0:27.6 | to it. Hello, today I'm talking with you about kindness. And I want to talk about it because |
| 0:36.9 | many people I work with are lacking it. |
| 0:39.8 | And they're not lacking kindness with other people. They're actually very kind to other people. |
| 0:45.2 | But when it comes to themselves, not so much. And it's a problem because it perpetuates |
| 0:51.6 | negative feelings and negative behaviors for them. |
| 0:55.9 | So often when people are struggling with binging after binging and having a hard time |
| 1:01.5 | stopping themselves from binging again, and when people are struggling with binging after |
| 1:06.1 | overeating or eating a food they think is bad or after making a mistake that isn't even |
| 1:10.6 | eating related, |
| 1:11.8 | it's because they're not being kind to themselves. They tell themselves they're a failure, |
| 1:18.0 | are too weak, that they can't do it, that they will never stop binging, that they're a disgusting |
| 1:23.3 | loser, such harsh and mean things. Now, I want you to imagine that you binged, and I came to you and said, |
| 1:33.1 | you're a weak, disgusting failure, and you're never going to be able to stop doing this. |
| 1:39.3 | How would you feel? You would feel awful. You'd feel so bad about yourself. You'd feel inadequate, ashamed, |
| 1:45.3 | hopeless, defeated. And what would you do if you felt that way? Nothing good, likely. That's when |
| 1:52.1 | most people would give up and just keep eating or keep binging or eat to avoid feeling that way. |
| 1:59.0 | So often people speak to themselves that way because they think it's going |
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