How to End Emotional Eating (spoiler alert: you don't have to)

<p dir="ltr">We've spent the past few weeks talking about all of the things that you’ve tried to stop emotional eating, binge eating, and/or overeating, to stop feeling out-of-control with food, and/or to lose weight.  </p> <p dir="ltr">And now that we've talked so much about what doesn't work, we're going to talk about what <em>does</em>.  But before we get to that, let's talk about what I even mean when I say what "works."  What's the goal here?</p> <p dir="ltr">In the past, your goal was probably to stop whatever eating behavior you didn't like, control your eating, and/or lose weight.  And those goals make sense!  We hear messages about how we need to do those things allllllll the time.</p> <p dir="ltr">But here's the deal:  those goals are also a set-up for failure.  Food doesn't need to be controlled (in fact, the more we try to control it, the more out-of-control it becomes), and neither does your body.  </p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" data-redactor-style-cache= "text-align: center;"><span data-redactor-span="true" data-redactor-style-cache="color: rgb(88, 70, 102);"><strong>No, the goals aren't control and shrinking yourself.  They're peace and freedom.</strong></span></p> <p dir="ltr">What would that look like?  When you have peace and freedom with food and your body, you:</p> <ul> <li>Eat your favorite foods without losing control</li> <li>Know and connect with the parts of you that lead you to food</li> <li>Eat for comfort, stress-relief, etc. when you need to</li> <li>Have compassion for yourself when you struggle with food</li> <li>Trust what your body is telling you about what it needs</li> <li>Trust yourself to eat in ways that serve you well both physically and emotionally</li> <li>Treat your body with respect and kindness </li> </ul> <p>Doesn't that sound amazing?  And it's <em>really</em> possible!  How?  With a combination of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Intuitive Eating (IE).  What are those and how do they work?  That's exactly what we're talking about in this episode so ta