Current brain science shows that a lack of consistent emotional nurturance in infancy and childhood, when the brain is still forming, can result in difficulties with self-regulation, causing us to seek comfort and nurturing outside ourselves, often substances. Food. Alcohol. Narcotics. Tobacco. Gamboling…
Here’s the good news…
History is not our destiny and the brain CAN be re-wired for optimal emotional health. Our addictive bad habits are usually related to something emotional and therefore, we can learn to self-nurture instead of turning to outside substances.
New Book Offers a Mindful Approach to Ending Emotional Eating
No matter what substance has a hold on you and your emotions, this book will be a game changer for you. When Food is Comfort: Nurture Yourself Mindfully, Rewire Your Brain, and End Emotional Eating, author Julie M. Simon explains that when we eat in the absence of physical hunger cues, routinely choose unhealthy comfort foods, or eat beyond full, something is out of balance.
On Today’s Show
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The author of When Food is Comfort, Julie M. Simon will be joining us today to discuss the following:
▪How we can develop self regulation, or the ability to manage emotions, moods, thoughts, impulses and behaviors.
▪Seven skills that make up your “Inner Nurturing” – plus the insight, tools and tips that will help you practice self- connection and self-nurturance.
▪How to attract the things that NURTURE you into your life – and 4 ways you can learn to better nurture others.
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