Ep 481: The 5,000-Year-Old Secret to Stopping Emotional Eating

Thinner Peace in Menopause

Dr. Deb Butler

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

I'm showing you how ancient Buddhist wisdom can help you break the cycle of emotional eating with more awareness, compassion, and ease—just like I teach my clients.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr. Deb Butler and you are listening to Thinner Peace and Menopause and Beyond.
0:07.7	This is episode number 481.
0:15.8	Welcome to Thinner Peace and Menopause and Beyond.
0:19.0	This is Dr. Deb Butler, Master Life and Weight Coach,
0:23.2	and as always, your coach. If you're a woman and you're smart and you're successful and you've been
0:30.4	struggling with weight your whole life and now menopause is making it harder than ever,
0:36.5	and you are ready to make this the last time you
0:40.1	ever have to go on a diet again, then this podcast is for you. Stay tuned.
0:49.5	Well, hello, all my dear friends all over the world. I'm talking to you. You can see me and you can hear me. You can always see me on my website or you can hear me exactly where you're listening to me on my podcast. But I'm doing both on video and audio. So you have two different ways of being able to see me and listen to this now.
1:14.2	And this is episode number 415. And I have something very interesting I want to talk to you about
1:20.6	today because it's what I've been talking about with all my clients today. So I thought like,
1:26.0	well, I'm just going to treat you, my podcast listener,
1:29.2	all over the world, like you're one of my clients today and talk to you about some of my
1:35.0	favorite Buddhist teachers and their teachings and how it can help you with your urges
1:42.3	and your emotional hunger and what it is and what to do about it.
1:46.9	Because the reason you eat when you're not hungry is usually because of urges and or
1:55.5	emotional hunger. And emotional hunger is basically an emotion. And when we're talking about emotional
2:03.6	hunger, we're usually talking about negative emotional hunger that goes from zero to a negative
2:09.3	10, negative 10 being the worst, zero being neutral. We're talking about a number. And we're also
2:16.7	talking about urges, which is a feeling, emotional
2:21.9	hunger, an urgent desire, the desire to do something or eat something when you don't want
2:29.9	to be doing it.
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