If you’ve been struggling with binge eating, emotional eating and food addiction for most of your life, you may view your body as an adversary.  When you experience negative feelings about your body, it may be the result of past hurtful experiences from childhood, which can lead to a disconnection between you and your body. This can lead to your self-evaluation (how you feel about yourself) being tied to your body size or shape and a desire to whip your body into shape.  When you reconnect to your body, you can tap into a vast reservoir of wisdom and advise that will guide you in your recovery from binge eating, emotional eating and food addiction. In this episode you will learn: What is body image? What are the 3 causes of negative body image? What in your childhood is the key to understanding your body image issues?

If you’ve been struggling with binge eating, emotional eating and food addiction for most of your life, you may view your body as an adversary.  When you experience negative feelings about your body, it may be the result of past hurtful experiences from childhood, which can lead to a disconnection between you and your body. This can lead to your self-evaluation (how you feel about yourself) being tied to your body size or shape and a desire to whip your body into shape.  When you reconnect to your body, you can tap into a vast reservoir of wisdom and advise that will guide you in your recovery from binge eating, emotional eating and food addiction. In this episode you will learn: What is body image? What are the 3 causes of negative body image? What in your childhood is the key to understanding your body image issues?

Did you know that there is a hidden force that drives your behaviors associated with food addiction, emotional eating and binge eating? This hidden force is your emotions and when you struggle to regulate your emotions, it can have a big impact on your binge eating, emotional eating and food addiction behaviors.  If you have food and body image issues, you may respond to emotions by using food to numb yourself or tamp down even happy feelings.  Both reactions to emotional pain are two sides of the same coin—attempts to escape from your emotions, or from the “emotional soup.”  In this episode you will learn: What is the emotional soup? What are the 4 things you need to know to get out of the emotional soup? How can being stuck in your emotions affect your food and body image issues? Why how you express your emotions is the same as how you deal with food.

Did you know that there is a hidden force that drives your behaviors associated with food addiction, emotional eating and binge eating? This hidden force is your emotions and when you struggle to regulate your emotions, it can have a big impact on your binge eating, emotional eating and food addiction behaviors.  If you have food and body image issues, you may respond to emotions by using food to numb yourself or tamp down even happy feelings.  Both reactions to emotional pain are two sides of the same coin—attempts to escape from your emotions, or from the “emotional soup.”  In this episode you will learn: What is the emotional soup? What are the 4 things you need to know to get out of the emotional soup? How can being stuck in your emotions affect your food and body image issues? Why how you express your emotions is the same as how you deal with food.

If you’ve tried different diets to help with food obsessions, binge eating or emotional eating, you may have concluded that your food and weight issues are not about food. These issues are about how you use food to deal with your emotions, experiences from your past, and beliefs that have resulted from past hurts or traumas. By working on your food and weight issues on a deeper level, you can expect your healing to also be deeper and more sustainable. Over the next podcasts I will be sharing with you the 5 Steps to Recovery from food and body image issues.   In this episode you will learn: Why focusing on the number on the scale cannot provide lasting results. How to stop unwanted behaviors related to food and body image issues. Why the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine may have made your food and body image issues a lot worse!

If you’ve tried different diets to help with food obsessions, binge eating or emotional eating, you may have concluded that your food and weight issues are not about food. These issues are about how you use food to deal with your emotions, experiences from your past, and beliefs that have resulted from past hurts or traumas. By working on your food and weight issues on a deeper level, you can expect your healing to also be deeper and more sustainable. Over the next podcasts I will be sharing with you the 5 Steps to Recovery from food and body image issues.   In this episode you will learn: Why focusing on the number on the scale cannot provide lasting results. How to stop unwanted behaviors related to food and body image issues. Why the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine may have made your food and body image issues a lot worse!

Anorexia nervosa is a life-threatening illness that is challenging to treat and can be overwhelming for families seeking help.  The Minnesota starvation study dating to the 1950’s showed without any doubt that starvation causes psychological as well as physical symptoms – symptoms that mirror symptoms of individuals with anorexia.  The current state of treatment for anorexia has ignored this connection and instead resorts to the use of medications that lack FDA approval and therapies that have consistently been shown to be ineffective.  What is needed is addressed by my guest, Dr. James Greenblatt who is a pioneer in the field of functional and integrative medicine.    In this episode, you will learn: Why anorexia treatments currently fail miserably. What is the research that could lead to significantly better outcomes for treating those with anorexia. Why therapy is likely to fail unless nutritional deficiencies of self-starvation are addressed.

Anorexia nervosa is a life-threatening illness that is challenging to treat and can be overwhelming for families seeking help.  The Minnesota starvation study dating to the 1950’s showed without any doubt that starvation causes psychological as well as physical symptoms – symptoms that mirror symptoms of individuals with anorexia.  The current state of treatment for anorexia has ignored this connection and instead resorts to the use of medications that lack FDA approval and therapies that have consistently been shown to be ineffective.  What is needed is addressed by my guest, Dr. James Greenblatt who is a pioneer in the field of functional and integrative medicine.    In this episode, you will learn: Why anorexia treatments currently fail miserably. What is the research that could lead to significantly better outcomes for treating those with anorexia. Why therapy is likely to fail unless nutritional deficiencies of self-starvation are addressed.

It can be confusing to determine whether you have binge eating, food addiction or emotional eating.  While criteria for binge eating disorder have been established for some time, research is beginning to show some of the ways in which binge eating and food addiction are similar and different.  All of these disorders can affect men as well as women and are related to how you use food.  It’s not food or your body that is the problem, it has to do with how you use food that may stem from early life adversity, trauma or neglect.   In this podcast, you will learn: What is binge eating disorder? What is food addiction? What is emotional eating? How do I know if I have binge eating disorder, food addiction or emotional eating.

It can be confusing to determine whether you have binge eating, food addiction or emotional eating.  While criteria for binge eating disorder have been established for some time, research is beginning to show some of the ways in which binge eating and food addiction are similar and different.  All of these disorders can affect men as well as women and are related to how you use food.  It’s not food or your body that is the problem, it has to do with how you use food that may stem from early life adversity, trauma or neglect.   In this podcast, you will learn: What is binge eating disorder? What is food addiction? What is emotional eating? How do I know if I have binge eating disorder, food addiction or emotional eating.