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Here's how to start to wind down when you’re triggered, stressed, or craving. 

In this podcast

• Your 'Window of Tolerance' or capacity for life's demands
• Neuroscience & stress or collapse states
• Things that trigger us into stress or collapse states
• Ways to self-regulate, calm your system, and change how you feel
• A breathing exercise
• How embodiment can help us to shift

Next week, I'll give you more ways you can de-stress, and talk about what compassion is.

Another podcast you might like: Reset your Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)

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Window of Tolerance -a diagram

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The neuroscience and physiology of inner child wounding, and how to heal.

In this podcast

• The neuroscience and physiology of triggering - Fight, Flight, Freeze & Fawn
• The Top 10 emotional triggers to addiction, & other types of triggers
• How to recognise being triggered
• 9 Steps to start healing your inner child, nervous system triggering, & comfort eating or addiction. 

In two weeks, I'll talk about how you can be compassionate towards yourself.

Another podcast for you: Heal Self-Worth Through Embodiment & Somatic Psychotherapy

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Zora Neale Hurston quoted in Nicabm training below
Some ideas here were inspired by a Nicabm training on working with self-worth. You can buy your full training programme here.

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Understanding your inner child is essential to comfort eating recovery. This is our instinctive, unconscious, or reactive part. It's this part that demands comfort food.

In this podcast:

• The Inner Child - A response to the self-critic
• Feelings - The language of the inner child
• Triggering - How the inner child's response might relate to your past

Next week I'll focus on the physiology of trauma triggering & how to heal your inner child.

Another podcast you might like: Worry, Anxiety & Comfort Eating

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Low self-confidence happens to us all. Here are ways all of us can be affected. Your self-confidence or self-worth is important to challenge in your battle against addiction. Because low self-confidence, and self-criticism, will make you want to 'use'/comfort eat, or treat yourself badly.

In this podcast

• 8 ways feeling bad about yourself can show up, and why. 

Another podcast for you: How Do I Stop Self-Criticism?

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Gabor Mate - 'In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts'

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Self-criticism is one of the main reasons that people overeat. Dieting is based around it. But the solution lies in NOT trying to be perfect.

In this podcast

• How self-criticism goes hand in hand with comfort eating,
• how you can start to recover your self-esteem

Another podcast for you: Reset your Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)

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Links to exercises that will reset your nervous system: TikTok or Facebook

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Have you ever wondered what triggers your binge or comfort eating? 

In this podcast

• 3 powerful questions to help you identify what's behind your eating.
• How you might be feeling now that we are almost 3 years on from the start of Covid-19. These potential feelings illustrate one experience that might be behind your comfort eating.

Another podcast you might like: 10 Ways to Overcome Anxiety

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Links to exercises that will reset your nervous system: TikTok or Facebook

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Maybe you're frustrated with yourself for not being able to stop eating? Or maybe you know your triggers are emotional? In this podcast 

• We explore the complexities of comfort eating and the various factors that contribute to the difficulty of stopping. 
• We discuss five reasons why managing binge or comfort eating has nothing to do with self-discipline. 
• We look at the chemical, ancestral, genetic, physiological, and biological influences that play a role in our eating habits. 
• Additionally, we examine the effects of food availability, marketing, society, culture, and habit formation on our eating behaviours. 
• Finally, most importantly, we delve into the emotional reasons behind comfort eating and how it is often used as a coping mechanism for various life stressors. Here I begin to show you that compassion is going to be your secret weapon against comfort eating.

Another podcast you'll love: How to Stop Procrastinating

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Today, I encourage you to reflect on self-appreciation for the year, rather than chastising yourself for not doing well enough. I also offer you a moving end of the year story. Warning: This one might make you cry. But it will leave you feeling comforted and warm inside.

Another podcast episode for you: How Do I Stop Self-Criticism?

Citations
'The Child's Story' by Charles Dickens - Read by Shelley Treacher.

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Today we have another heart-warming little story for the inner child in you, as well as a reminder to be kind to yourself at Christmas.

Here's another podcast you will love: 10 Ways to Overcome Anxiety

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'The Elves and The Shoemaker' by The Brothers Grimm - Read by Shelley Treacher.

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Sleep is something that's important to get control of. It can affect everything we are, feel and do. Today we cover:

• The importance of good sleep when combatting comfort eating. 
• I've been told I have a calming voice. So, here I read a beautiful little tale to lull you into a warm, happy sleep. The story starts around 7 minutes into the podcast.

Here's your next podcast: 10 Ways to Overcome Anxiety

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'The Night Before Christmas' - Read by Shelley Treacher
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