#65: The Truth About Emotional Eating & How We Can Heal Through Internal Family Systems with Dr. Kim Daniels, Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Abbie chats with Dr. Kim Daniels, a licensed clinical psychologist and emotional eating coach, about the biospychosocial components of eating disorders, the diagnosis of binge eating, and how so many factors come together to create our relationship with food and our bodies.

Topics discussed:

• What’s on Kim’s plate right now as a mother, and her current favorite snack
• Kim's relationship with food and her body as a child
• How our experience of puberty impacts body image
• Working in bariatric surgery prior to finding the weight-inclusive approach
• Binge eating as a diagnosis
• Assumptions in ED treatment
• The hurdles of transitioning into anti-diet work
• The problem with emotional eating and the restrict-binge cycle
• Internal Family Systems (IFS) as a model for healing our relationship with body and food 
• Using self-compassion in understanding our parts
• How to begin using IFS without overwhelm

Dr. Kim Daniels is an emotional eating coach with a degree in clinical psychology. She is also trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor.

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