Today I interview health coach Jessica Romrell about emotional eating, which she defines as ‘using food to cope with or escape an emotion’

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Shownotes

*Stupid Idea of The Week*

…is the concept of being ‘too emotional’. This is a nonsense, and is expressing something subtly distinct. Find out what that is…

*Main section*

Emotional eating is not about the food. Let’s get under the bonnet of this issue and go deeper.

We discuss

• The problem with willpower
• What stress cycles are and how they impact emotional eating
• Deconstructing and neutralising the shame around this issue
• The two types of coping that Jessica recommends
• What true self care is (clue: it’s not taking a hot bath!)
• What habit stacking is and why it’s important

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