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Jan 2023
27m 30s

Emotional Eating: How to Stop Using Food...

Brittany Cory
About this episode

When you experience negative emotions, is your first reaction to reach for food? What about positive emotions? In this week's episode, we cover emotional eating, why it's working against you to demonize it, discuss some techniques and different coping skills that you can begin to use so you’re not always using food to numb out. This episode is going to teach you how to make food a part of your life, instead of your whole life. Let's dive in!

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