My friends, it's Sarah May. This is a podcast about emotional eating. And if you're not an emotional eater this is kind of about all

negative emotional habits because it's about how we have grown the patterns of soothing to begin with. It's also how we

manage uncomfortable feelings. So I'm going to post a blog version of this with all of my reading references later this week.

So check it out.

And this is going to be in three parts.

Part one is the what, Part 2 is why.

Part 3 is the tools.

So I'll have 3-ish tools for you there.

And I will remind everybody just enter the head space contest for a year of free meditation

Because it's gonna be awesome. I think you have a good chance of winning also because it's a smaller pool and you can enter on teaspoon of happy.

Alrighty so part one. What is emotional eating?

Basically any negative habits around food that relate to your

emotional states. So it could be binging or overeating or feelings of just complete lack of control, almost like a drug state related to food.

It could also be withholding food and then also losing control with food.

It could be like a vicious cycle.

Or it could be binging and purging food.

I mean, everybody's got a different relationship to food,

so it manifests in different habits. So in short food

is a metaphor and eating is a metaphor and it's very tied to how we deal with other things in

our life and relate to fear and pain and we either soothe related to pain or we run away from it or we lash out and fight it or we deny it.

In Buddhism they call these psychological types the grasping slash fear type, the rejecting slash anger type or the denial slash adrift type.

So depending on your type, you will react to stress in your life in kind of a

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