4: You Are Not Addicted To Food

Talking with Emma: Coaching Tools that Make Living in a Midlife Body Easier

Description:
If you feel like you spend too much time thinking about food — what you should eat, what you shouldn’t, whether you’ve already blown it — this episode is for you.

We talk about why you’re not addicted to food. You’re deprived.
And your body is trying to protect you.

In this episode, I explain how black-and-white thinking about food — inherited from diet culture, family messages, and years of restriction — sets you up to feel out of control. We look at why your brain fixates on food, even when you’re not dieting, and how to begin unhooking from that pattern using a powerful self-coaching practice.

You’ll learn:

• Why food obsession is a sign of deprivation, not addiction
• How diet culture trains your brain to think in black-and-white categories
• Why your food thoughts aren’t a moral failing — they’re a survival response
• A self-coaching tool that helps you notice, name, and soften the inherited food rules in your mind
  

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