When Food Is Comfort, Julie M. Simon
When Food Is Comfort, Julie M. Simon
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When Food Is Comfort
Nurture Yourself Mindfully, Rewire Your Brain, and End Emotional Eating

Author: Julie M. Simon, Omar Manejwala, MD

Narrator: Rosemary Benson

Unabridged: 10 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/14/2020

Synopsis

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 that you can stop turning to food for comfort. Improved health and self-esteem, more energy, and weight loss will naturally follow.

About Julie M. Simon

Julie M. Simon is a licensed psychotherapist and life coach with more than twenty-seven years of experience helping overeaters stop dieting, heal their relationships with themselves and their bodies, lose excess weight, and keep it off. She is the author of The Emotional Eater's Repair Manual and the founder of the popular Twelve-Week Emotional Eating Recovery Program. She lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Roslyn on March 21, 2018

Julie knows her stuff. Her previous book was a lifesaver, and this has proven to be just ask good. If you struggle with emotional eating, this book will no doubt help you. There is no hype or crazy suggestions- she has done her research (years of research) and understands how our brains work. Bottom......more

Goodreads review by Rena on March 21, 2018

This book helps explains why you turn to food when you feed your emotions. It dives deep and offers an outline of how to heal yourself. Yet, Simon’s writing is so good that you feel you are having a one on one session with her.......more

Goodreads review by Nalian on September 12, 2018

I felt like this book really resonated with my experience and struggles around food. It’s very compassionately written, bringing a lot of clarity around how our upbringing affects our attitudes around food and how we use food as a coping mechanism. I especially appreciated linking neurobiology and e......more

Goodreads review by Louis on August 30, 2024

Related to a lot of the content which made me feel emotions that made me want to go grab a snack......more

Goodreads review by Dr. on March 22, 2018

Julie Simon's expertise helped me recall vivid memories of when I began reaching for food at the age of 6, and how to continue to deal with this behavior, still, at the age of 77! As a bonus, Ms. Simon also helped me to tap into my inner self, to not only continue to help me keep up this daily vigil......more

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