Julie Simon is a licensed psychotherapist, life coach and certified personal trainer with over 30 years of experience in helping overeaters and imbalanced eaters mend their relationship with their feelings and ultimately themselves. She’s also the founder of the popular Los Angels based 12-week emotional eating recovery program. She’s the author of the book When Food is Comfort: Nurture Yourself Mindfully, Rewire Your Brain and End Emotional Eating. In this interview, Julie teaches what’s at the root of emotional eating and the specific steps you can take to build the skills you need to regulate your emotions.
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In This Interview, Julie Simon and I Discuss…
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That the most common cause of emotional overeating is difficulty regulating our emotions, moods, thoughts, and behaviors
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Disconnecting from our emotions being at the root of emotional overeating
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Relating to our feelings
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Early interactions with our caregivers
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Regulating Our Emotions = Our ability to manage our emotions and moods (and regulate our nervous system) so we can control or redirect impulses in our behaviors, thinking before we act
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Attunement and Attachment
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Self-medicating
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Resourcefulness in regulating our brain chemistry
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Missing self-care skills
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Being stuck in an earlier phase of development
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Inner indulging voice
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The 7 skills involved in inner nurturing
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Exploring our emotions and bodily sensations
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Our tendency to move away from unpleasant emotions by focusing on our thoughts
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Emotion presents in the body first (before we have words for them)
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Real recovery is experiencing and moving through emotions
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Soothing behaviors to restore ourselves to calm:
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Noticing breath
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Tense and relax parts of the body
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Getting in comfortable clothes
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Listening to soothing music
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Soothing gestures
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Laying down in the fetal position
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The goal is not to distract yourself
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The goal is to calm down enough to pop the hood
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Telling ourselves that it’s ok to feel the way we feel
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Validating the feeling not the behavior
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Having compassion for oneself
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