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May 2020
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Ep72: Are You Eating Your Emotions?

Baraa El Sabbagh
About this episode

There are lots of reasons we look to food to solve our problems. Maybe we're bored, stressed, overworked… whatever the emotion, we have comfort food to satisfy it. Can you imagine what happens to our bodies, year after year of this behavior? I bring on expert Mina Shafik, a licensed psychologist, to help us figure out why this is happening and how to put a stop to it, once and for all!

 

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