When Food Is Comfort

Nurture Yourself Mindfully, Rewire Your Brain, and End Emotional Eating

By: Julie M. Simon, Omar Manejwala MD - foreword

Narrated by: Rosemary Benson

Learn inner nurturing and end emotional eating.

If you regularly eat when you're not truly hungry, choose unhealthy comfort foods, or eat beyond fullness, something is out of balance. Recent advances in brain science have uncovered the crucial role that our early social and emotional environment plays in the development of imbalanced eating patterns. When we do not receive consistent and sufficient emotional nurturance during our early years, we are at greater risk of seeking it from external sources, such as food. Despite logical arguments, we have difficulty modifying our behavior because we are under the influence of an emotionally dominant part of the brain.

The good news is that the brain can be rewired for optimal emotional health. When Food Is Comfort presents a breakthrough mindfulness practice called inner nurturing, a comprehensive, step-by-step program developed by an author who was herself an emotional eater. You'll learn how to nurture yourself with the loving kindness you crave and handle stressors more easily so you can stop turning to food for comfort. Improved health and self-esteem, more energy, and weight loss will naturally follow.

©2018 Julie M. Simon (P)2020 Tantor

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This book really opened my mind to the idea that we could all be a little wiser than only weight, there is a physical connection between weight and strength

A must read/listen

I have read a lot of books on the subject of overeating/ eating disorders. This one is different and very impactful. Other methods have not helped me, but this one (while it’s still early) has shifted something in me. I got the audio and now will reread in book format, because there’s so much to take in here. Highly recommended for anyone who struggles with eating and has plenty of other issues to top it off.

Exactly what I needed to hear!

I finally understand why I have struggled with food for over 50 years! I am already feeling stronger in my resolve.

Life changing

This book is life changing. The best part was hearing examples of wayward thinking that sound exactly like own thoughts followed up with advice on how to reroute them. Definitely going to listen again.

So helpful!

I loved this book! It was so incredibly helpful to me. The examples and personal stories were wonderful.