Healing Your Relationship with Food and Self: a Journey Beyond Emotional Eating With Jillian Scott

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What if your relationship with food is actually trying to tell you something about your emotional needs? In this captivating conversation with certified trauma-informed coach Jillian Scott, we uncover the profound connection between emotional hunger and our deeper psychological longings.
Jillian courageously shares her 12-year battle with binge eating and the revelation that changed everything: food was meeting emotional needs that weren't being fulfilled elsewhere in her life. With remarkable insight, she explains how dieting and restriction created a vicious cycle that made her binge eating worse, not better. "I was trying to outrun my nutrition," she reveals. "I was trying to outrun my low self-esteem."
This episode takes us beyond surface-level nutrition advice to explore how childhood wounds shape our adult relationships with both food and people. Jillian explains how growing up without her biological father created core beliefs of unworthiness that later manifested in seeking validation from relationships and turning to food for comfort. Her perspective is refreshingly compassionate – recognizing that emotional eating served as protection at one point in our lives.
We also explore the fascinating generational patterns around food. Many of us grew up with messaging like "clean your plate" – patterns that developed during actual times of scarcity like the Great Depression but persist even when physical scarcity is no longer an issue. Understanding these historical contexts helps remove shame and brings a new level of self-compassion to our healing journey.
Whether you struggle with emotional eating or know someone who does, you'll walk away with practical wisdom and a powerful new perspective. As Jillian says, "Sometimes God takes us where we don't want to go, to create in us what couldn't have been done any other way." Your relationship with food might be the doorway to profound healing you never expected.

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In Health,
Shelly Jefferis

Chapters

1. Finding Compassion in Food Struggles (00:00:00)

2. Host Introduction and Guest Welcome (00:03:33)

3. Jillian's Binge Eating Journey (00:09:49)

4. Coaching for Emotional Eating Recovery (00:14:09)

5. Core Wounds and Relationship Patterns (00:20:20)

6. Understanding the "Hungry for Love" Podcast (00:28:11)

7. Breaking Generational Patterns with Compassion (00:35:28)

8. Practical Tips for Emotional Eating (00:39:57)