You have two options in regard to emotional eating: you can try to eliminate it altogether or you can try to make better use of it by making emotional eating more conscious. The latter would be consistent with the goals of harm reduction, a humanistic form of psychotherapy that offers a pragmatic risk-reduction approach to managing problematic behaviors. Three Principles of Mindful Emotional Eating If becoming a mindful emotional eater is the goal you'd like to pursue, the following three principles will help you transition from mindlessly-reactive emotional eating to mindfully-conscious emotional eating in moderation: 1) when eating to cope with emotions, accept emotional eating as a legitimate coping choice, not a coping failure; 2) when eating to cope with emotions, follow a predictable eating ritual, with clear start and end points; 3) when eating to cope with emotions, remember that emotional eating does not have to mean emotional overeating. Following these guidelines will help you approach emotional eating with a sense of control. Ritualize Emotional Eating Habits, routines and rituals offer a soothing, stabilizing sense of predictability and help us feel in control of the moment.
Pavel Somov, Ph.d.: Mindful Emotional Eating
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