Becoming ready for any of these steps is not something we decide with our mind. Most situations, behaviours and actions are rooted into our nervous system states and they all serve a purpose until they don’t any longer. 

Emotional eating is not something you just choose to stop doing. And you have likely tried to get rid of this behaviour in many ways. And you can do all the right things to “get rid of” this behaviour but without looking at the root cause of it, it will keep surfacing again and again. And that can be frustrating because you are indeed doing all the right things, right?

It takes practice to allow the emotions to come to the surface, especially if you have learned to shut them down, numb out or just ignore them. If you find yourself always feeling the same emotion or not even knowing what you are feeling, theres a big change that you’re not accessing your whole emotional range.