What Is Addiction, Really? The Coping Mechanism That Becomes a Trap (With Dr. Chip Dodd)
4 Things with Amy Brown
Nashville Podcast Network
4.7 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
OUTWEIGH: Addiction isn’t just about substances—it’s about the ways we cope with pain, stress, and unmet needs. In this episode, Chip Dodd and Leanne unpack how behaviors like emotional eating, over-exercising, workaholism, and social media addiction follow the same addictive patterns as substances. They explore the difference between coping mechanisms that help us heal versus those that keep us stuck, and how the brain wires itself for addiction. If you’ve ever felt caught in a cycle of numbing or self-sabotage, this episode will help you understand why—and what you can do about it.
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Leanne Ellington // StresslessEating.com // @leanneellington
To learn more about re-wiring your brain to heal from the all-or-nothing diet mentality for good....but WITHOUT restricting yourself, punishing your body, (and definitely WITHOUT ever having to use words like macros, low-carb, or calorie burn) check out Leanne's FREE Stressless Eating Webinar @ www.StresslessEating.com
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| 0:00.0 | I won't let my body outweigh |
| 0:03.0 | everything that I'm made of. |
| 0:06.0 | Won't spend my life trying to change. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm learning to love who I am. |
| 0:11.0 | I am strong. |
| 0:12.0 | I feel free. |
| 0:14.0 | I know every part of me is beautiful. |
| 0:18.0 | And I will always outweigh if you feel it put your hands in the air show |
| 0:26.5 | some love to the mirror while you're there let's take it one day at your top because |
| 0:31.1 | you and die outweigh hey hey leanne here and I hope you enjoyed this series with Dr. Chip Dodd here on Outway. |
| 0:40.4 | And if you want to learn more about how I teach my own clients to turn off the part of their |
| 0:44.8 | brain that's obsessed with food, obsessed with their weight, and rewire their own brain for peace |
| 0:50.2 | and freedom, then head on over to stresslesseating.com, where I've literally peeled back |
| 0:55.2 | the curtain and walked you through the exact strategy I teach my clients to heal themselves |
| 1:00.6 | from the all-or-nothing diet mentality for good. But without restricting themselves, punishing |
| 1:06.2 | their bodies, and definitely without ever having to use words like macros, low carb, or calorie burn. |
| 1:12.6 | It is all over there for you to access over at Stressless Eating.com. |
| 1:18.2 | Well, happy Saturday Outwe. |
| 1:20.5 | It is me, Leanne, here back for an episode where we're actually here with our beautiful guest, Chip Dodd, |
| 1:25.7 | where we're going to do a series, it's a four-part mini-series called Why We Numb the Real Root of Coping Mechanisms. |
| 1:32.9 | So hello, Chip. |
| 1:34.0 | Hey, how is your being here? |
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