A great conversation with Dr Amy Johnson on the subject of habits, compulsive eating and behaviours. This conversation really clearly highlights the misunderstanding of compulsive eating, where we spend a lifetime dealing with our thinking, what looks like the problem, and that we are all way bigger than that. Subjects we covered:

• Why food becomes primary addiction after drugs & alcohol
• How food covers a sense of emptiness
• How using food becomes a tool for coping with emotions
• How food fills the void
• Why people gain so much weight in addiction recovery
• The wisdom in finding ways to cope
• How all addictions are the same
• And all mental health diagnosis
• Looking at the content is not helpful
• Where to start to look
• No one is compulsively eating because they are hungry!
• Escaping from a discomfort we don't like
• Whats common in all problems
• Am I really a compulsive eater?
• How we turn thoughts into meaning - thingifying
• Why we make a case for details being real
• Being afraid of our experience
• Feelings are all ok and safe
• We always come back home
• Feeling our thinking about situations
• Whats really going on Vs what I think is going on
• Becoming aware the narrator in our mind
• Whats beyond the narrator?
• It's ok to feel hungry
• The feeling of space
• A whole new normal takes over
• Developing a different relationship with experience

If you would like to reach out to Amy you can do so here at her website https://dramyjohnson.com/