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When Food Is Comfort: Nurture Yourself Mindfully, Rewire Your Brain, and End Emotional Eating
Written by Julie M. Simon and Omar Manejwala, MD
Narrated by Rosemary Benson
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Learn Inner Nurturing and End Emotional Eating
If you regularly eat when you're not truly hungry, choose unhealthy comfort foods, or eat beyond fullness, something is out of balance. Recent advances in brain science have uncovered the crucial role that our early social and emotional environment plays in the development of imbalanced eating patterns. When we do not receive consistent and sufficient emotional nurturance during our early years, we are at greater risk of seeking it from external sources, such as food. Despite logical arguments, we have difficulty modifying our behavior because we are under the influence of an emotionally dominant part of the brain.
The good news is that the brain can be rewired for optimal emotional health. When Food Is Comfort presents a breakthrough mindfulness practice called Inner Nurturing, a comprehensive, step-by-step program developed by an author who was herself an emotional eater. You'll learn how to nurture yourself with the loving-kindness you crave and handle stressors more easily so that you can stop turning to food for comfort. Improved health and self-esteem, more energy, and weight loss will naturally follow.
If you regularly eat when you're not truly hungry, choose unhealthy comfort foods, or eat beyond fullness, something is out of balance. Recent advances in brain science have uncovered the crucial role that our early social and emotional environment plays in the development of imbalanced eating patterns. When we do not receive consistent and sufficient emotional nurturance during our early years, we are at greater risk of seeking it from external sources, such as food. Despite logical arguments, we have difficulty modifying our behavior because we are under the influence of an emotionally dominant part of the brain.
The good news is that the brain can be rewired for optimal emotional health. When Food Is Comfort presents a breakthrough mindfulness practice called Inner Nurturing, a comprehensive, step-by-step program developed by an author who was herself an emotional eater. You'll learn how to nurture yourself with the loving-kindness you crave and handle stressors more easily so that you can stop turning to food for comfort. Improved health and self-esteem, more energy, and weight loss will naturally follow.
Author
Julie M. Simon
Julie M. Simon, MA, MBA, LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist and life coach with more than twenty years of experience helping overeaters stop dieting, heal their relationships with themselves and their bodies, lose excess weight, and keep it off. A lifelong fitness enthusiast, she is also a certified personal trainer and the founder and director of the Los Angeles–based Twelve-Week Emotional Eating Recovery Program.
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Reviews for When Food Is Comfort
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is so informative and makes so much sense! The author does an amazing job of explaining each item to you and then gives actual, practical strategies to try with examples! I highly recommend this book if you are interested in weight loss, mindfulness, or just improving yourself!
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great insights on why and how it is to suffer from emotional eating. Many examples from actual clients with a eating disorder. Lost focus those sections where I couldn’t relate but feel it has a lot of good stuff so want to read it again