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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Anorexia nervosa is a life-threatening illness that is challenging to treat and can be overwhelming for families seeking help.  The Minnesota starvation study dating to the 1950’s showed without any doubt that starvation causes psychological as well as physical symptoms – symptoms that mirror symptoms of individuals with anorexia.  The current state of treatment for anorexia has ignored this connection and instead resorts to the use of medications that lack FDA approval and therapies that...

It can be confusing to determine whether you have binge eating, food addiction or emotional eating.  While criteria for binge eating disorder have been established for some time, research is beginning to show some of the ways in which binge eating and food addiction are similar and different.  All of these disorders can affect men as well as women and are related to how you use food.  It’s not food or your body that is the problem, it has to do with how you use food that may stem from early...

If you've struggled with binge eating, food addiction or emotional eating for some time, you may find that the stresses and isolation of the quarantine have worsened your symptoms.  Or you may have had other life challenges that have caused stress and overwhelm in your life.  All of this can lead to depression and feelings of hopelessness or despair.  It can make your battle to make peace with food and your body feel even more difficult, leading you to fall back on using food to numb your...

Tattoos have become more acceptable over the years but are often only seen as having decorative value.  My guest #DonnaTorrisi has written a book about the connection between tattoos and trauma.  While a tattoo sits only on the skin, the meaning of tattoos may be much deeper for some individuals, telling a story of a difficult time in their lives, a loss or a story of abuse.  In this way, tattoos are a form of self-expression that can tell you something about the person and their life’s...

If you struggle with binge eating, emotional eating and food addiction, you may also have body image issues.  Your body image issues may keep you from doing what you want to do in life and keep you from being the best you can do.   Think of your body identity as a role or archetype you have chosen to play in your life for the time being until you are able and willing to be your best self. This is the way you’ve learned to cope with being in a bigger body.   Are you the rebel, wounded child or...

In this podcast, you will learn: 1. About the 13 money traumas and how they may be holding you back 2. Why how you manage your money can be a window into your other life challenges. 3. The difference between being deserving and being worthy and how that affects your ability to attract money into your life. I will be joining Tasha to talk about how money issues relate to food and body image issues on her 5-Day Money Attraction Challenge.

In this video you will learn: 1. What the connection is between perfectionism and self-sabotage 2. How trauma can be a cause of self-sabotage 3. 4 tips on how to stop self-sabotage in its tracks Schedule a free consult to discuss your food and body image issues: https://findingyouranchor.as.me/CONSULT

In this episode you will learn: The effect of trauma on the nervous system. How to use your body sensations and body functions to help you understand your emotions. How to release trauma using your body’s wisdom. Schedule a free consult to discuss your food and body image issues: https://findingyouranchor.as.me/CONSULT

What you’ll learn in this podcast: Is the BMI a racist measurement? Why is it so hard to give up binging? How graham crackers started as a diet food. How diets fail us, while making us feel we are failures. Schedule a free consult to discuss your food and body image issues: https://findingyouranchor.as.me/CONSULT

In this podcast, you will learn: What do twin studies teach us about binge eating, food addiction, and emotional eating? Why one physician’s research led him to stop recommending the intermittent fasting diet. How weight stigma can make binge eating, emotional eating, and food addiction worse.

In this podcast, you will learn: > What is the most critical time for your baby to get the best nutrition for health and development? > What are some of the triggers during pregnancy for binge eating disorder, emotional eating, and food addiction? > How to nourish yourself during the fourth trimester. Schedule a free consult to discuss your food and body image issues: https://findingyouranchor.as.me/CONSULT

In this show you will learn: What are some of the psychological effects of dieting? What is intuitive eating? What is the difference between the pursuit of health and the pursuit of thinness? Schedule a free consult to discuss your food and body image issues: https://findingyouranchor.as.me/CONSULT

In this podcast, you will learn: What are the top 5 foods that are considered “industrial formulations?” How is food changed to make it more addictive? Is it true that sugar is highly addictive? Schedule a free consult to discuss your food and body image issues: https://findingyouranchor.as.me/CONSULT

In this podcast, you will learn: 1. How can you tell if you have adrenal fatigue syndrome (AFS)? 2. What causes adrenal fatigue? 3. How do stress and adrenal fatigue cause binge eating, food obsessions, and emotional eating? 4. What can you do about AFS? Schedule a free consult to discuss your food and body image issues: https://findingyouranchor.as.me/CONSULT

In this podcast, you will learn: 1. How childhood adversity or trauma affects body image. 2. Why you may have trouble knowing what you are feeling. 3. How eating can be part of your survivor self’s playbook. 4. How to tap into your body’s wisdom. Schedule a free consult to discuss your food and body image issues: https://findingyouranchor.as.me/CONSULT

In this podcast, you will learn: >What the research shows about the intermittent fasting diet. >What the $60 billion diet industry won’t tell you. >What you should eat to get and stay healthy. Schedule a free consult to discuss your food and body image issues: https://findingyouranchor.as.me/CONSULT

In this podcast, you will learn: 1. The signs that you may have a food addiction. 2. Specific practices you can use to overcome food addiction. 3. How you can get rid of the negative self-talk that makes food addiction worse. The Anchor Program is a 12-week non-diet program offering ONLINE group and individual sessions for the treatment of binge eating, emotional eating, food addiction, and compulsive overeating.  Want to learn more about the Anchor Program? https://AnchorProgram.com

In this podcast, you will learn: >>What are the signs that you are having a grief reaction >>How binge eating, food addiction, and emotional eating are a normal response to grief and loss. >>How to manage your grief, cope with losses during the pandemic – lessons learned from personal experience. Schedule a free consult to discuss your food and body image issues: https://findingyouranchor.as.me/consult

"Depriving yourself of foods you crave just sets you up for more cravings" In this episode, you will learn: >>Why food cravings come from a lack of dopamine in the brain >>How to find out if you use food to help with your mood >>What specific things you can do to conquer your food cravings Where you can find me: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/real-healing https://www.youtube.com/user/DrCarolynRoss