Thank you for this post, Amparo. Diet culture makes emotional eating out to be a problem to solve! As if eating birthday cake at a party is not emotional eating! We all do it! I love your point emotional eating is not the problem but a signal. When we can approach ourselves with compassion and curiosity, we will learn so much more about ourselves!
Thanks, Carolyn. We don't need to demonize emotional eating if we can view it as a coping skill, one of many, when we're experiencing intense emotions. We want to ensure we have options for our coping strategies because one coping skill might not address the intense emotion at that time, so we might need to pull another from our toolbox. If we have options, we have the ability to be curious and flexible.
Thank you for this post, Amparo. Diet culture makes emotional eating out to be a problem to solve! As if eating birthday cake at a party is not emotional eating! We all do it! I love your point emotional eating is not the problem but a signal. When we can approach ourselves with compassion and curiosity, we will learn so much more about ourselves!
Thanks, Carolyn. We don't need to demonize emotional eating if we can view it as a coping skill, one of many, when we're experiencing intense emotions. We want to ensure we have options for our coping strategies because one coping skill might not address the intense emotion at that time, so we might need to pull another from our toolbox. If we have options, we have the ability to be curious and flexible.