EP 234: Stop Overeating and Overspending with Dee

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode is about how to break addictive behaviors. Today’s caller, Dee, had a chaotic childhood and is unconsciously creating chaos in her adult life because it feels familiar and safe. We work through the process of identifying her emotional addiction and unpack why it’s hard to shift and then how to shift it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[For show notes go here:</span> <a href="http://christinehassler.com/episode234"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Christinehassler.com/episode234</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">]</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How we know that an unresolved issue from our past or an old emotional addiction has created a pattern of acting that is so unconscious that we have a hard time ‘controlling’ it is at play is that we do something that doesn’t match our current life.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are doing something that doesn’t match up to what your current life represents, you have some work to do in terms of going back and cleaning up the past.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When we have a lot of chaos or are used to feeling it, we become addicted to negative or lower vibrational feelings, like anxiety. Sometimes the revved up, anxious, addicted behavior creates a feeling of peace because it is familiar.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With any addiction, you are never after the substance. You are after the feeling the substance gives you. When we understand that the human psyche feels safety with certainty the brain continually hunts for what it knows to be familiar. It’s way more than sabotage. It’s a part of the brain that is so familiar with chaos that when everything is good and peaceful, it feels wrong or off.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are in a behavior that feels incongruent with your current state, be aware that it is an emotional addiction. Drop into compassion and then feed your emotional addiction a different way.</s