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Emotional Eating: What It Means, Why We Do It and How to Shift Out of It

Food cravings, emotional eating, photograph of people eating breakfast by Ali Inay

Photograph by Ali Inay

Identifying the true sources of our food cravings allows us to nurture both our emotional and biological needs

Imagine this…

You get home later than expected from work. You’re feeling super drained and exhausted. You make yourself dinner and sit in front of the TV watching your favorite ‘trashy’ television show while you eat. Afterwards, you have a craving for something sweet and you give in because it feels like the only exciting thing you’ve done all day. You grab a package of

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