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When emotional eating feels completely automatic

I use food to numb everything and I know it but when difficult emotions hit I reach for it automatically before I can even think.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Food has become your primary coping mechanism, creating a neural pathway that bypasses conscious choice in moments of distress.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Food relationship and disordered eating?”

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