The Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross Show: Binge Eating Disorder, Stress Eating, Emotional Eating, Food Addiction

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107: Betsy Thurston Interview Mar 15, 2022

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In this podcast, I will interview Betsy Thurston, a dietician who also specializes in the use of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy as a unique tool in treating her eating disorder clients. The founder of IFS, Dr. Richard Schwartz describes IFS as "a powerfully transformative, evidence-based model of psychotherapy." We will discuss how she has seen IFS work for her clients who struggle with eating disorders.

In this podcast you will learn:

What is Internal Family Systems Therapy?
How is IFS different from other therapies?
How can IFS help patients heal from food and body image issues?

106: How to, for once and for all, make peace with your body Mar 09, 2022

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If you are dissatisfied with your body, you are not alone. While having self-doubts is a normal part of being human, if your self-evaluation is primarily dependent on your superficial appearance, your size or shape, that can lead to shame, negative self-talk, suffering and the use of extreme and harmful behaviors to reach the ever-elusive thin ideal. As well, it's important to realize that trying to "hate yourself thin" can put stress on your body and increase belly fat and risk for diabetes and heart disease.

In this episode you will learn:

What some women are willing to give up in exchange for a thin body.
How to stop the transmission of body image issues from one generation to another.
Why weight stigma may be the reason for health risks, not size!

105: How body movement can help heal binge eating and food addiction Mar 04, 2022

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Physical activity has been co-opted by the diet industry just as food has – in other words, only good to get you to lose weight. No wonder thinking about body movement may send you into a fit of resistance or rebellion or make you feel guilty – feeling you're not doing enough or not doing the right kind of activity that the experts say you should. If you struggle with binge eating, food addiction or emotional eating, you may struggle in finding a way to move your body that doesn't feel like something you have to do or something you feel bad about not doing. In this podcast, you will learn:

How to recognize if you've experienced exercise trauma.
How to reclaim body movement as a form of self-expression.
What the 3 most common reasons for not being physically active are and how to address them.

104: Skills you can use to stop binging and overeating NOW Feb 14, 2022

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The first goal of therapy if you have binge eating, compulsive overeating, food addiction or emotional eating should be interrupting any current unwanted behaviors, such as bingeing, overeating, obsessing about food or your body. But these behaviors are so automatic and so linked to emotions that often are not acknowledged or even recognized, that it's hard to stop or interrupt them. There are skills that can help you if you want to move on and just don't know how.

In this podcast you will learn:

Why practicing certain skills can help you end unwanted behaviors.
Five skills you can put into practice immediately.
How skills can help uncouple your emotions from your unwanted behaviors.

103: Breaking free of the foods that hold you hostage Jan 28, 2022

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If you have binge eating, food addiction or emotional eating, you may know that diet culture has rebranded itself as "healthy" vs. the prior focus on the thin ideal, losing weight or getting skinny. There has also been a trend by social media influencers to market detox products to make money, but in doing so, they may be contributing to the development of eating disorders in their followers. Your body has its own detoxification system. There are things you can do to give your body and mind a "reset" for the new year that will help you deal with cravings, binging, body dissatisfaction and food obsessions.

In this podcast you will learn:

Why detox products can be dangerous.
What is orthorexia?
How can mindfulness help your break free of food obsessions.
Specific steps you can take to reset your body and mind in the new year.

102: Five Steps to Recovery: #5 Finding Soul Satisfaction Jan 11, 2022

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If you're struggling with food addiction, binge eating or emotional eating, at some point you may have come to realize that there's something deeper to your food and body image issues. If you ask yourself what the cause is of most of your suffering about your food obsessions and body hatred, you may realize that it is because of these problems you have not allowed yourself to express who you truly are. You may have held yourself back in your career, in relationships, as a parent and in other roles you play in life because of your size. The ultimate goal of recovery from binge eating, food addiction or emotional eating is to find soul satisfaction and to bring it into all areas of your life, including your relationship with food and how you feel about your body.

In this episode, you will learn:

What is soul satisfaction?
What does soul satisfaction have to do with my binge eating, food addiction or emotional eating?
Why is soul satisfaction not about religion or even spirituality?
How can food and body image issues be metaphors for what is missing in your life?

101: Five Steps to Recovery: #4 Creating New Core Beliefs Dec 27, 2021

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Unconscious core beliefs can stand between you and your goal to put an end to your food, body image, and weight issues. When first formed, usually when you were younger and during times of transition, trauma, or emotional upheaval, core beliefs are solutions to problems you couldn't solve—perhaps because you didn't have the resources at the time. Research highlights the importance of addressing negative core beliefs; when they are not addressed, you may find it more difficult to stop unhealthy behaviors. Examples of core beliefs include: I'm not worthy, I'm not good enough and more. Negative core beliefs play an important role in the development and maintenance of the symptoms of food addiction, binge eating and emotional eating.

In this episode you will learn:

What are core beliefs?
How do core beliefs stand between you and what you desire most in your life?
How can you change a negative core belief?

100: The Five Steps to Recovery: #3 Embracing the Body's Wisdom Dec 13, 2021

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If you've been struggling with binge eating, emotional eating and food addiction for most of your life, you may view your body as an adversary. When you experience negative feelings about your body, it may be the result of past hurtful experiences from childhood, which can lead to a disconnection between you and your body. This can lead to your self-evaluation (how you feel about yourself) being tied to your body size or shape and a desire to whip your body into shape. When you reconnect to your body, you can tap into a vast reservoir of wisdom and advise that will guide you in your recovery from binge eating, emotional eating and food addiction.

In this episode you will learn:

What is body image?
What are the 3 causes of negative body image?
What in your childhood is the key to understanding your body image issues?

99: The Five Steps to Recovery: #2 - Emerging from the emotional soup Nov 23, 2021

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Did you know that there is a hidden force that drives your behaviors associated with food addiction, emotional eating and binge eating? This hidden force is your emotions and when you struggle to regulate your emotions, it can have a big impact on your binge eating, emotional eating and food addiction behaviors. If you have food and body image issues, you may respond to emotions by using food to numb yourself or tamp down even happy feelings. Both reactions to emotional pain are two sides of the same coin—attempts to escape from your emotions, or from the "emotional soup."

In this episode you will learn:

What is the emotional soup?
What are the 4 things you need to know to get out of the emotional soup?
How can being stuck in your emotions affect your food and body image issues?
Why how you express your emotions is the same as how you deal with food.

98: The Five Steps to Recovery: #1 Stopping Superficial Behaviors Nov 16, 2021

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If you've tried different diets to help with food obsessions, binge eating or emotional eating, you may have concluded that your food and weight issues are not about food. These issues are about how you use food to deal with your emotions, experiences from your past, and beliefs that have resulted from past hurts or traumas. By working on your food and weight issues on a deeper level, you can expect your healing to also be deeper and more sustainable. Over the next podcasts I will be sharing with you the 5 Steps to Recovery from food and body image issues.

In this episode you will learn:

Why focusing on the number on the scale cannot provide lasting results.
How to stop unwanted behaviors related to food and body image issues.
Why the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine may have made your food and body image issues a lot worse!

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