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Food Addiction: Dopamine, Cravings, & GLP-1s

Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms

Release Date: 09/10/2025

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Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms

Anyone else out there tired? Emotionally exhausted? Ready to try something new for 2026? This is the episode for you. 💗 I sat down with Dr. Shonda Allen Hill to talk about the subtle “conversation traps” so many midlife women fall into without realizing it. If you’ve ever walked away from a conversation feeling drained, irritated, or like you just lost thirty minutes of your life you’ll never get back, click play. 🤓 These traps steal our time, amp up our stress, and keep us stuck in cycles of over-explaining, defending, and managing everyone else’s emotions. Dr. Hill breaks...

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Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms

This is the episode you’ve been asking for! When you next feel overwhelmed, anxious, emotionally exhausted, or over. it. all….Before booking a one-way ticket to anywhere but here, press play and tap along with me. In this episode of the Love Your Life Show, I walk you through a full guided EFT tapping session. This is the exact practice I use when my emotions feel too big, when my anxiety hits a ten out of ten, or when life feels heavier than I want it to. EFT tapping blends Chinese acupressure with modern psychology and is known for helping with anxiety, stress, fear, sleep...

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Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms

If you’ve ever found yourself feeling resentful, irritated, or annoyed as a mom, wife, or friend, you don’t want to miss this episode.   Learning from Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife has helped me so much as a mom, through my divorce and into my now healthy, more mature marriage, my friendships, and my relationship with myself. I can not recommend her work highly enough.   Please gift yourself a listen to today’s episode. Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife and I talk about why resentment shows up in marriage and motherhood and how to use it as a path toward self-understanding and...

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Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms

The Year You Let It Be Easy What if your best year yet didn’t require more effort but less struggle? In this episode, I invite you to imagine a year that feels light, free, and full of possibility. Together we’ll look at how to stop overworking, overthinking, and over-caring so you can start creating a life that actually feels like yours. ✨ In this episode, you’ll learn: - how to think intentionally about your future without pressure or hustle - why your thoughts, not your to-do list, shape your next year - a simple three-step process to create momentum and ease - how to reconnect with...

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Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms

Whoa warriors, this episode wasn’t planned.   It started on a walk. One small moment after another, until something landed so clearly that I stopped short, pulled out my phone, and hit record.   In this short bonus episode, I share a more personal side of my own life and what that walk stirred up for me in real time. It’s reflective, honest, and a little different than my usual episodes.   Then, I bring you the heart of a listener-favorite teaching and walk you through how to choose your word of the year in a way that actually feels supportive instead of...

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Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms

Are you tired of being the one who holds everything and everyone together? If you’re the go-to problem solver, the one who jumps in to “help” before anyone even asks, this episode will feel like a deep exhale. 💛   This week, I’m joined by psychotherapist and author Leah Marone, whose new book Serial Fixer explores why so many of us over-function, over-accommodate, and lose ourselves in relationships. Together, we unpack what drives our urge to fix and how to finally stop.    💬 Join us as we talk about: The difference between helping and fixing (and why...

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Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms

This holiday season, skip the stress of finding the “perfect” gift. Time and time again, I’ve found that these three gifts last far longer than any new xbox game, fancy watch, or clothing item my teen or spouse wants.    I made this week’s Love Your Life Show episode to quickly share three things you can give your loved ones that will mean far more than anything you can buy.   I think you’ll like my ideas, especially when you listen in to hear how they work in real life! Click play to learn simple ways to:  ✨ Shift your focus to what’s good in your spouse and...

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Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms

The holidays can bring joy AND… stress. Between the parties, the pressure, and the people-pleasing, it’s easy to slip into that “F it” mindset with our wellness and mental health habits.   Which is why many of us, myself included, get to January feeling down on ourselves and/or like our wellness is broken and we need massive change. Now. Dammit. And yet, we know that mindset doesn’t work. Did you know that more than 90% of people quit their new years resolutions before 20 days have passed?! By January 17th!  This year and in this episode of the Love Your Life Show, I’m...

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Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms

Do you ever feel drained or tired after your interactions with others in your life? Like maybe your spouse or teen but also with a parent, sibling, coworker or friend? Please know, this is totally normal. We weren’t taught skillful relationship tools and so it makes sense that we’ll feel more reactive, resentful, or heavy after certain interactions. The great news is that we can learn these skills! In fact, I’ve found that there are some very simple things I’ve learned that make all the difference for me in how I feel in my relationships. Even better news? I share three simple ones...

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Love Your Life Show: Personal Growth, Mindset, + Habits for Moms

Why do some relationships feel so draining? Do you ever feel stressed when you hear those studies talk about how important healthy relationships are? I know I do! When I hear relationship and happiness experts say how important the quality of the relationships we’re in are, I can sometimes feel overwhelmed and drained, with a “but wait, this is my kid?” Well this is the episode for you! I have looked back over the past 381 episodes of the Love Your Life Show to teach you the thing to help you feel less stressed and more peace and calm. Just in time for the holidays! Whether...

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Is food addiction real — and what does it mean for you?
In this episode of the Love Your Life Show, I talk with neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Susan Peirce Thompson, founder of Bright Line Eating. We talk about the surprising science behind food addiction. You will want to listen in and hear what she says about willpower and our brain chemistry. 

We explore:

  • How dopamine and food cravings create compulsive eating patterns

  • Why certain brains are more susceptible to sugar and processed food addiction

  • The four “bright lines” that help people find freedom from dieting — not restriction

  • The pros and cons of GLP‑1 medications like Ozempic for sustainable weight loss

If you’ve struggled with emotional eating, yo-yo dieting, or feeling “out of control” around food, this conversation will help you understand the brain science of weight loss. Even greater news? It will give you hope that freedom is possible.

Listen now to shift how you see food, addiction, and yourself.

 

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Who's Running the Show? Your Adult or Your Child Brain? on Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/94-adult-brain/id1434429161?i=1000475156589

Who's Running the Show? Your Adult or Your Child Brain? On Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/3i1cf87rqHtZVAyBzJbUlm?si=-tq3h4NJRgGo6iDx51pDPA

 

To find the food addiction quiz, the Bright Line books and how to connect with her further, click here 👉🏾 https://SMBwell.com/371

 

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