Why do we turn to food when we’re stressed, lonely, or overwhelmed? Author and emotional-eating expert Tricia Nelson joins me to unpack what emotional eating really is (and why it’s not about willpower). We talk about comfort, compulsion, body image, aging, and intimacy—and explore how true healing starts with feeling your emotions instead of numbing them.
In this episode, I talk with author and emotional-eating expert Tricia Nelson about why we turn to food for comfort, what emotional eating actually is (it’s not about willpower), and how to build a life that makes late-night kitchen raids less inevitable. We get into compulsions, body image, aging, intimacy, the “tiger out of the cage” metaphor, and why healing has way more to do with buried feelings and stress patterns than with food itself. It’s an honest, tender conversation about breaking cycles, lowering pressure, and learning to feel instead of numb.
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