So often we have shame around having an issue with food.

Like, oh, it's cookies for goodness sakes.

Like, get over yourself.

No, it's like, it's right there in front of you.

Everywhere you turn, it's socially acceptable.

It comes in pretty packages.

Everybody's serving it at holiday time.

It's much harder. So the shame isn't in having a

problem with it. You know, to me, you need more help. You need more support. Okay. How's everybody

doing? Did you survive Thanksgiving? Did you have a really excellent Thanksgiving? Do you enjoy any of the Thanksgiving

meal or all of it? I don't know. I'm really happy to be talking to you right now. We have a guest.

We have an episode today. I'm back. the sporadic podcast that used to be consistent,

which I'll say, although I bet if you're listening to this, you probably know that because

I'm certainly not gaining a new audience at this pace I'm going, but you know, who knows?

If you are new here, buckle up.

Because today, well, you know, it's a vulnerable one for me.

It's a topic near and dear.

It's over the years, over the last dozen years, I've talked about my emotional eating and body image

issues, disordered eating, eating disorders, treatment, feeling better about it, feeling

worse about it.

We've really run the gamut here.

And today we're back on that topic, a topic that, you

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