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Interview: The Impact of Emotional Wellbeing on Physical Health
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Interview: The Impact of Emotional Wellbeing on Physical Health

Stacia Aashna and I discuss “The Impact of Emotional Wellbeing on Physical Health.” We talk about our experiences with hives and skin issues, and how we discovered that these health issues were largely connected to suppressed emotions, especially anger.

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Your Broken Heart and Your Food Addiction
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Your Broken Heart and Your Food Addiction

All those who struggle with food addiction are, at their core, heartbroken. Your binge eating reveals that deep down, somewhere, your heart is broken. You may not currently be aware of this, but it's true.

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How Do You Know if You’re Feeling Emotions?
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How Do You Know if You’re Feeling Emotions?

How do I know if I'm feeling emotions? What does it look like to release emotions? A great indicator that you're properly feeling emotions and releasing them is if you look like a small child does when they are feeling emotions.

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Overeating and Judgement of Our Emotions
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Overeating and Judgement of Our Emotions

Our overeating shows us a truth: that we judge and are afraid of our emotions. Every one of us that has any level of compulsive eating can benefit from looking at the issues of judgment of our emotions and also fear of them.

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Can Healthy Eating Help with Your Emotions?
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Can Healthy Eating Help with Your Emotions?

When you eat a healthy, light, unprocessed plant-based diet, it is easier to get into repressed emotions. Your body won't be gummed up and toxic and you'll feel more sensitive to your feelings. A heavy, processed diet numbs us out to emotion.

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Feeling Emotions is a Productive Use of Time
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Feeling Emotions is a Productive Use of Time

Discovering and allowing ourselves to feel all our feelings is a way of living which results in healing compulsive eating. This means that we can achieve an end to dieting, permanent maintenance of a healthy weight, and solve nutritionally-related health problems.

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How I’m Learning Emotional Messiness
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How I’m Learning Emotional Messiness

To heal compulsive eating, I’ve had to open up to being emotionally messy. This is something I’m still working on. I grew up, as many of us did, in a family that valued keeping it all
”together”.

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Juicing for Emotional Health: Podcast Episode
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Juicing for Emotional Health: Podcast Episode

Thank you to Holly of the To Be Radiant podcast for hosting me to talk about healing emotional eating, and how juicing can actually help those with overeating to heal. We also discuss the importance of good nutrition, about diet culture and the many benefits of vegetable juice. Click here to listen!

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