A great conversation with Dr Amy Johnson on the subject of habits, compulsive eating and behaviours. This conversation really clearly highlights the misunderstanding of compulsive eating, where we spend a lifetime dealing with our thinking, what looks like the problem, and that we are all way bigger than that.

Subjects we covered:

Why food becomes primary addiction after drugs & alcohol
How food covers a sense of emptiness
How using food becomes a tool for coping with emotions
How food fills the void
Why people gain so much weight in addiction recovery
The wisdom in finding ways to cope
How all addictions are the same
And all mental health diagnosis
Looking at the content is not helpful
Where to start to look
No one is compulsively eating because they are hungry!
Escaping from a discomfort we don’t like
Whats common in all problems
Am I really a compulsive eater?
How we turn thoughts into meaning – thingifying
Why we make a case for details being real
Being afraid of our experience
Feelings are all ok and safe
We always come back home
Feeling our thinking about situations
Whats really going on Vs what I think is going on
Becoming aware the narrator in our mind
Whats beyond the narrator?
It’s ok to feel hungry
The feeling of space
A whole new normal takes over
Developing a different relationship with experience

If you would like to reach out to Amy you can do so here at her website https://dramyjohnson.com/

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Misunderstanding of Compulsive Eating | Dr Amy Johnson & Jason Shiers