This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.

That song is called Cook, That song is called Cook. That's got you stabbing like a boom. Trying to get everybody's cool.

That song is called Cookie Do.

The artist is Agassi.

And I thought her message of enjoying life was so appropriate today because today we are tackling a big subject together. We are going to

be talking about emotional eating with my dear friend and colleague Kathleen. Kathleen is a

counselor and coach here on our team at Growing Self. And Kathleen has the most just positive,

affirming message when it comes to understanding why and how we can eat emotionally where it comes

from, but also how we can begin to shift our relationship with food to one

of empowerment that really emphasizes health, nourishment, enjoyment, and

releasing the judgment and shame and kind of negative messages we can get

wrapped up in when it comes to what we're eating, why we're eating, what our bodies look

like versus what they should look like. And we're going to be going there today on this episode of the podcast because

I've been hearing from you guys that there can be a lot of anxiety around health and bodies

and fitness and so I thought this was the perfect opportunity to get Kathleen in here, to give you some advice on how to

keep yourself in a good place and shift into a compassionate judgment, free, positive, accepting,

and nurturing relationship with yourself, with your food so that you can handle this season with

confidence, with clarity, and feel good about what you're doing. Kathleen, thank you so much

for your willingness to join me today on this show. I know you and I have been working together for

years and we've done this a couple of times, but it's always such a treat when you join us on the

podcast because you have so much wisdom to share. Thank you for being here. Fantastic. I'm really

excited to be here talking about emotional eating today. I love this topic. But I was hoping that maybe we could

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