Emotional Eating Unwrapped

Talk Therapy Isn’t Enough: Alternative Modalities to Expand Your Healing


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In this episode, Alana discusses the different modalities of therapy and healing for emotional eating. She emphasizes the importance of incorporating multiple healing modalities that address both the brain and the body. Alana shares her personal experience with talk therapy and how it helped her, but also highlights the limitations of talk therapy in fully healing. She introduces alternative healing modalities such as Reiki, acupuncture, yoga, and walking meditation that focus on getting back into the body and moving energy. Alana emphasizes the need to trust the body and create a new experience through both understanding and embodiment.

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Takeaways

  • In addition to talk therapy, incorporating multiple healing modalities that address both the brain and the body is important for healing emotional eating.

  • Talk therapy can be helpful in understanding the why and making connections, but it may become a bottleneck in the healing process if it is the sole focus.

  • Alternative healing modalities such as Reiki, acupuncture, yoga, and walking meditation can help get back into the body and move energy.

  • Healing requires both rewiring the brain and un-stagnating and clearing energy in the body.

  • Understanding the why is not enough for healing; it is important to let go of the heaviness and create a new experience through embodiment.

  • Chapters

    00:00 Introduction: Exploring Therapy and Healing Modalities

    02:23 The Limitations of Talk Therapy

    08:07 Talk Therapy: Understanding vs. Embodiment

    11:29 Alternative Healing Modalities: Reiki and Acupuncture

    14:16 Alternative Healing Modalities: Yoga and Walking Meditation

    18:52 Letting Go of the Why and Creating a New Experience

    19:17 Conclusion: Taking Action for Lasting Change

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