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Episode #89: How to Stop Emotional Eating and Heal Your Hunger, with Tricia Nelson

Dr. Tabatha Season 2 Episode 89

My guest on today's episode is Tricia Nelson. She is an internationally acclaimed author, transformational speaker, and emotional eating expert. Her most recent book “Heal Your Hunger,” dives deep into emotional eating and looks at the close link between eating and emotions. In her book, she gives seven simple steps that will transform your eating, cure your cravings, and help you regain happiness, confidence, and freedom.

On this podcast, we are going to talk about...

  • Simple ways to start to end emotional eating now.
  • The personality traits of an emotional eater.
  • How meditation can be a powerful tool for emotional eaters.
  • How it’s more of a lifestyle thing than an eating thing.
  • Tricia’s quiz to help you figure out where you are on the spectrum of emotional eating and determine if you need to do some deeper work on your relationship with food.

About Tricia Nelson

Tricia Nelson is an internationally acclaimed author, transformational speaker, and emotional eating expert. She has been featured on dozens of radio and television networks, including FOX, NBC, CBS, KTLA, and Discovery Health.

Tricia has successfully helped hundreds of people overcome a variety of eating disorders and addictions.

Born and raised in Concord, Massachusetts, Tricia’s own struggles began in early childhood, where she attempted to cope with life’s stresses and emotional pain by overeating and other destructive behaviors. Continuing into adolescence, she began binge drinking, and eventually gained more than 50 pounds. After years of experimentation with 12-step programs, therapy, and self-help books, Tricia finally hit a spiritual and emotional bottom.

Tricia attended Amherst College and began her career working at the Seattle Art Museum. While in Seattle she began working with a spiritual healer, Roy Nelson (who would later become her husband), who

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