How to stop emotional eating | Psyche Guides

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Whether compelled by an inner void, loneliness or boredom, psychoanalysis can help you understand why you seek comfort in food by Nina Savelle-Rocklin Photo by Shannon Fagan/Getty images Photo by Shannon Fagan/Getty images is a psychoanalyst. She is the author of The Binge Cure: 7 Steps to Outsmart Emotional Eating (2019) and Food For Thought: Perspectives on Eating Disorders (2016), and the co-editor (with Salman Akhtar) of Beyond the Primal Addiction (2019). She also hosts The Dr Nina Show on LA Talk Radio. She lives in Los Angeles. is a psychoanalyst. She is the author of The Binge Cure: 7 Steps to Outsmart Emotional Eating (2019) and Food For Thought: Perspectives on Eating Disorders (2016), and the co-editor (with Salman Akhtar) of Beyond the Primal Addiction (2019). She also hosts The Dr Nina Show on LA Talk Radio. She lives in Los Angeles. ‘I have a weakness for doughnuts,’ confessed Arlene, a 35-year-old teacher who came to me for psychoanalysis. She began craving doughnuts sho

‘I have a weakness for doughnuts,’ confessed Arlene, a 35-year-old teacher who came to me for psychoanalysis. She began craving doughnuts shortly after her first child was born. She’d sneak one bite, then another, then another. Before she knew it, she’d eaten three or four doughnuts. Every time it happened, Arlene felt deeply ashamed and vowed to have more control. Days of stringent dieting followed but eventually her willpower failed, and she’d head back to Krispy Kreme. ‘I eat so many doughnuts that my stomach hurts,’ she said, her eyes filling with tears. ‘I tell myself: “You have no…

How to stop emotional eating | Psyche Guides

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