Ep #377: When You Feel Your Feelings But They Don't Go Away and You Don't Feel Better
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
You've probably heard me say it before – rather than eating to escape your feelings, feel them. Your feelings will pass. But, what if it's been a while and they still haven't gone away? Your options aren't only to either eat food or endure discomfort. There is a third option.
In this episode, I'm showing you how to do the third option. This is something that will actually help you to feel better, and not just temporarily like with eating food. So listen in to find out how you can feel better, for real, without eating.
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Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/377
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
- Why it's a problem if you handle your uncomfortable emotions by eating food
- How to handle emotions without eating food
- What to do if your emotions aren't going away
- How to really change how you're feeling and feel better
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarfdy, episode number 377. |
| 0:06.7 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin feeling confident and in control around food. |
| 0:15.1 | You are absolutely capable of eliminating binge eating from your life. |
| 0:19.5 | And I'm going to show you how by giving you simple tools and insights that you can apply in your own life And I'm going to show you how by giving you simple |
| 0:21.5 | tools and insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirst and Sarkty. Now let's get to it. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello, something I've talked about numerous times throughout this podcast is feeling your emotions. For many people, one of the |
| 0:39.2 | reasons why they binge eat is because they're eating to escape, numb, avoid, or change how |
| 0:44.6 | they're feeling. It might start off as emotional eating and then snowball into a binge as they |
| 0:50.6 | keep going back for one more and one more and one more, or it might be a binge |
| 0:56.0 | from the start and they start eating knowing they're going to be eating an excessive amount. |
| 1:00.6 | And they're continuing to eat so they don't have to feel however they were feeling before |
| 1:06.3 | eating or to not feel however they think they'll feel after they stop eating. |
| 1:12.0 | They want to avoid feeling that emotion for as long as they can, |
| 1:15.5 | and as long as they're eating, they don't have to feel. |
| 1:18.6 | But as we all know, eating excessively is going to cause other feelings. |
| 1:23.9 | Definitely physical discomfort, but also emotional discomfort. So this way of handling uncomfortable |
| 1:30.3 | emotions is not the best way. What will be a much better way is to not escape and avoid |
| 1:37.2 | your emotions, but to feel them instead. You let them be there. You allow yourself to feel uncomfortable. Now, sometimes when you |
| 1:46.8 | just allow yourself to feel your feelings without eating, they pass more quickly than you'd expect. |
| 1:52.1 | They could even be gone in minutes. Our emotions are temporary and they do pass. And when you allow them |
| 1:58.3 | to run their course, they can simply fade away. But sometimes, |
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