Hello, everybody. It's Reed Tracey. Welcome back to the You Can Heal Your Life podcast.

And today's guest is Susan Pierce Thompson. And Susan has written a couple books already

with a house bright line eating and the bright line eating cookbook. Both were best selling

books and have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. And now Susan has a brand new book.

And it's called resume the powerful reframe to end the crash and burn cycle of food addiction.

How are you doing, Susan?

Hey, Reed, I'm great. So good to be with you.

And Susan's very unique in that she's a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester.

But she's also a person that uses bright line eating and she does it every single day.

I've seen her eat many, many meals around the country all using the bright line eating method.

Well, the rest of us are eating other things. So she knows exactly the audience she's trying to reach with bright line eating.

And I was wondering, Susan, how you decided about writing resume? Who were you thinking about when you are writing this?

Oh, you know, like all my books read it, it comes out of my own personal pain and research out there in the field, suffering.

Hopefully trying to help other people, you know, relapse is a really big deal with food because food food addiction is real and food addiction is the hardest.

It's just the hardest and you know my background, you know, I don't make that claim lightly and maybe we'll get into that a little bit.

But this book is really aiming to help the person who's just tired of the yo yo cycle of on again off again with their food and and really wants a smoother ride of it.

You know, really wants to kind of snap into a zone where they get on track with their food and then have the tools and the mindset to to just kind of stay on track and ebb and flow with life.

Instead of getting thrown off when life gets lifey and then having that come outside ways in their food and then having it compound on top of itself.

And before you know what you're face down in the ditch again, you know, in my in my case, it's always face down in a bowl full of cookie dough.

People turn to but but that pattern is very painful. So this reframe is an awareness that I had after four or five years of being painfully back in that crash and burn cycle myself.

And then I had to learn a whole new set of tools. I had to up level my own program after I got really successful with Brightline eating it got harder to stay breaks. I was traveling so much.

And for a while I couldn't I couldn't successfully do it. I was I was, you know, wildly all the time because of all the stress and all the travel.

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