9: Avoiding your feelings can cause food struggles, bad habits, and health issues: The impact of numbing behaviors

9: Avoiding your feelings can cause food struggles, bad habits, and health issues: The impact of numbing behaviors

You often wish you could have more “willpower” to stick to healthy habits and stop self-sabotaging, but what you are actually needing is often emotional regulation. Sticking to what’s good for you becomes effortless when you learn how to feel, process, and release your emotions without needing any coping mechanisms outside of yourself. This one skill can completely change your ability to take care of yourself and your health in general! Numbing behaviors are normalized in society, so opening your heart and feeling can seem difficult and uncomfortable. However, it is often necessary for full healing of a symptom to take place and for freedom from food struggles and other unhealthy coping methods you may rely on.

Find out…

  • How numbing behaviors are normalized in society
  • Why emotions are the biggest drivers of our actions
  • The social acceptability of alcohol
  • Examples of common numbing behaviors
  • How we link emotions and behaviors together
  • Why willpower doesn’t matter for new habits
  • The “screw it” mentality when things feel uncomfortable
  • Why self-sabotage happens
  • How the nervous system protects us by self-soothing with “bad habits”
  • How overeating can distract us from discomfort in the nervous system
  • Why it’s harder to stick to healthy habits at nighttime
  • Why “falling off the wagon” has nothing to do with willpower
  • Pavlov’s dog experiment
  • Why going for a walk or calling a friend isn’t the best way to stop overeating
  • Why positive emotions can be just as hard to feel
  • Numbness as a survival mechanism
  • Why being a highly sensitive or empathic child can lead to suppressing your feelings later on
  • My own story of numbness and unhealthy coping mechanisms
  • Step by step of how to feel emotions without needing anything outside of yourself
  • How this work changes your physical health


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Intro music created and produced by Wavesy!

Disclaimer: Nothing in this episode is to be taken as medical advice. Please speak to your own physician or functional medicine practitioner before making changes in your life.

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