Food Psychology

If you regularly eat when you're not truly hungry, choose unhealthy comfort foods, or eat beyond fullness, something is out of balance. 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.

If you eat to help manage your emotions, you may have discovered that it doesn't work. Once you're done eating, you might even feel worse. Eating can all too easily become a strategy for coping with depression, anxiety, boredom, stress, and anger and a reliable reward when it's time to celebrate.

Clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist Dr Anna Colton guides you through a judgement- and shame-free journey from pregnancy to a child's adolescence with accessible scientific and psychological understandings. She shows you how you've formed your relationship with food and gives you the practical, evidence-based tools to instill a positive relationship with eating in your children.

Having a child with "extreme" picky eating is frustrating and sometimes scary. Children with feeding disorders, food aversions, or selective eating often experience anxiety around food, and the power struggles can negatively impact your relationship with your child. Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating offers hope. After gaining a foundation of understanding of your child's challenges and the dynamics at play, you'll be ready for the five steps that transform feeding and meals, so your child can learn to enjoy a variety of foods in the right amounts for healthy growth.

With plenty of expert tips & easy-to-follow techniques that you can effortlessly implement into your life, the DBT Workbook for Emotional Eating reveals how you can finally break free from compulsive overeating and recover from your food addiction.

If you've experienced physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, your past trauma could affect how you care for yourself today. You may struggle with difficult thoughts and feelings, and reach for food to soothe your emotions when feeling sad, anxious, or stressed. You aren't alone. Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors offers an innovative, trauma-informed approach to overcoming emotional eating using the principles of mindfulness, self-compassion, and neuroscience.

If you want to learn better food choices are capable of controlling the compulsive eating behavior as well as weight gain...then keep reading! Do you want to experience feelings of calmness, alertness, and high levels of energy from the food eaten? Whatever do you eat affects the way you feel? Are you ready to make a change in your lifestyle? Here is the deal: Food not only nourishes your bodies but also makes you feel good. If you either eat too much or too less, the quality and health of life could be affected. This will result in having a negative feeling towards food.

The Food Security Blanket offers a compassionate roadmap for foster parents, social workers, and therapists supporting children through complex relationships with food. Drawing from a decade of hands-on fostering experience and evidence-based research, this guide reveals practical strategies that address the heart of these behaviors.

Do you struggle with emotional eating, especially when stressed or anxious? Do your eating habits disrupt your life and leave you feeling guilty afterward? 2.8 million adults face binge eating, often linked to emotional eating. While it may seem like a lack of self-control, emotional eating is more complex than that. We eat our feelings for many reasons–to escape stress or cope with challenges. Left unchecked, emotional eating can harm your health, social life, and finances. But you can change course and overcome emotional eating–it’s not easy, but it is possible.

An extraordinary, powerful connection exists between feeling and feeding that, if damaged, may lead to one relying on food for emotional support, rather than seeking authentic happiness. This unique workbook takes on the seven emotions that plague problem eaters—guilt, shame, helplessness, anxiety, disappointment, confusion, and loneliness—and shows them how to embrace and learn from their feelings.

Diet is an essential component of a client's clinical profile. Few therapists, however, have any nutritional training, and many don't know where to begin. In Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health, Leslie Korn provides clinicians with a practical guide to the complex relationship between what we eat and the way we think, feel, and interact with the world. Where there is mental illness there is frequently a history of digestive and nutritional problems. Digestive problems in turn exacerbate mental distress.

If you find yourself raiding the fridge in the middle of the night or using food to cope with emotions, it's time to take control. Compulsive Overeating is your guide to understanding and overcoming this challenging behavior.

Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health offers the principles and practices necessary to provide your clients with nutritional counseling for improved mood and mental health. Professionals are given tools like nutritional assessment templates for every client's unique needs and history, as well as diet and supplement recommendations based on diagnosis, psychotropic deprescribing timelines, and more.

If you're an emotional overeater, you may turn to food to cope with stress and sadness, enhance joy, and bring a sense of comfort. But over time, overeating can cause weight gain, heart disease, diabetes, and many other health problems. In 50 More Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, you'll find 50 more mindful and healthy activities to help you replace your need to overeat.

Are you feeling guilty about your last binge? Although you are a child or a young adult, you shouldn't feel the shame to be part of the group of people that has food addiction. I know, you feel alone, disordered, anonymous, fat, and dirty, however, there is nothing that can stop you overcoming obsessive and compulsive food eating.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Addiction 101 and learn about addiction, mental health, recovery, and relapse.

Whether or not you’ve been formally diagnosed with a binge-eating disorder, you know that something needs to change. But like many disorders, what helps one person may not help another. That’s why The Binge Eating Prevention Workbook offers a wide range of evidence-based tools to help you take charge of your eating habits.

Reversing Eating Disorders is a compassionate, science-based guide designed to help you break free from disordered eating and rediscover peace with food and your body. Whether you're struggling with binge eating, restrictive habits, emotional eating, or body dysmorphia, this audiobook offers a clear, proven path to healing, empowerment, and food freedom—once and for all.

Under the new rules of social media, we are not what we eat, but rather what others believe we eat. The 21st century has marked the emergence of social media networking sites. They have become a major part of our lives: we can't imagine our lives without them, and it's unrealistic to assume that's even possible. Platforms like Twitter and Facebook haven't been around long, but they are already having far-reaching impacts on our health and wellbeing.

Las emociones juegan un papel fundamental en las elecciones alimentarias. Cuando la comida se convierte en la única herramienta de gestión emocional, lejos de ayudarnos a resolver el problema, nos genera otro adicional. A través de un abordaje interdisciplinar desde la psiconutrición se pueden resolver estas dificultades de forma integral, trabajando no solo la cuestión dietética sino también la psicológica. De este modo, la persona puede llegar a diferenciar las causas que le llevan a comer, conocer el impacto del estrés en lo que come, y más.