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.

Before I learned to connect with my body I used food to numb anxiety, overwhelm and stress. Many call it emotional eating, I call it a missing connection and a way to escape the bodily sensations. A way to escape something that you don’t know how to approach and process. A way to find safety and nurturing.