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Emotional Eating Versus Eating Disorders
- Emotional eating links distressing emotions to using food as a learned coping behavior rather than a diagnosed eating disorder.
- Dana Lawson emphasizes checking for severe restriction or diet-culture motives before labeling eating as emotional eating.
Use DBT To Address Emotional Eating
- Use DBT skills to target the emotion–eating link and learn alternatives to using food to cope.
- Try the workbook The DBT Solution for Emotional Eating as a structured, research-based program.
Dialectics Counters Rigid Diet Rules
- Dialectical thinking helps hold wanting change and accepting the present simultaneously.
- This mindset counters rigid diet-culture rules and supports flexible food relationships.