Do you ever wonder why you experience food cravings, struggle with urges to eat, and often eat emotionally or binge eat? Often, these habits develop in childhood as learned self-soothe mechanisms that becomes automatic habits over time, eventually hardwiring their place in the brain. It’s not just that you have no willpower or control. There’s much […]
I recently sat down with a new client. Midway through our conversation, she disclosed a secret—one she had never told a therapist before. This secret was something she had been carrying around as emotional weight for over 30 years. It wasn’t just the secret itself she had been holding on to; it was the shame and […]