The Surprising Hidden Reason For Your Binge Eating

Episode 80. What do you think is the reason for your binge eating or emotional eating? And when I say binge eating, what I mean is any eating you are doing where you feel even slightly out of control, guilty about it, feel like you "should" restrict certain foods, have certain food rules (even if they feel like they are "healthy" rules). Any and all of that is a form of disordered eating, and although it's very normalized, it does not need to be your reality. What to Expect in this Episode: My Iceberg Analogy for eating behavior (and why it works for almost any behavior) What types of things keep us stick in the binge eating cycle The most common mistakes that keep us stuck for years longer than we want to be Tangible steps to get yourself unstuck "I am binge eating because..." Most people when they come to work with me, or hear what I do have some sense of what they think might be causing their binge eating. They probably don't know for sure, but they have some guesses. Here are some of them: I just need to have more self control, more willpower (aka I'm weak) I am addicted to sweets or carbs (aka something is wrong with my brain, and therefore me) "No childhood sh*t, I just need some strategies." Have you seen Brene Brown's Ted Talk on the Power of Vulnerability? If not, it's time to become one of the 18 million views it's gotten at the time of this writing and recording. She said something that always makes me laugh: "No childhood sh*t, I just need some strategies." I can soooo relate to this. As a psychologist and a science minded person, I so badly wanted to be able to fix my emotional pain with books, learning, and strategies. All the Strategies in the World Won't Help If You Don't Address the Root Cause But guess what? All the best strategies in the world won't help if you don't get to the root of the issue. And as it turns out, most of our pain comes from childhood sh*t, or other early experiences. Although some of our pain may come f