The Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross Show: Binge Eating Disorder, Stress Eating, Emotional Eating, Food Addiction
You can put an end to food obsessions, body dissatisfaction and cravings. You can make peace with food and your body and have the energy and vitality you want! And you can be healthy without dieting. I'm Carolyn Coker Ross, MD and I'm a specialist in treating binge eating, food addiction and emotional eating and I'd love to teach you how to regain your self-confidence, end your struggle with food and weight and be free to live your life again.
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127: Gut Function and Eating Disorders
04/03/2023
127: Gut Function and Eating Disorders
In this episode, I will be speaking with London nutritionist and health coach, Marcelle Rose. The number one complaint of people with binge eating, food addiction and emotional eating is usually a digestive one. That makes sense because the digestive track depends on receiving enough fiber and other nutrients to work well. Also many of the binge foods or “food fixes” are foods that can cause inflammation in the gut. The gut has also been called “the gut brain” because it is so closely tied to our actual brains and problems in the gut can increase issues with depression, anxiety and more. In this episode, you will learn: What are supplements that can help soothe inflammation in the gut? How to heal problems with the gut such as constipation and irritable bowel syndrome. What our thoughts have to do with gut issues? How emotions can influence gut function and vice versa.
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126: Emotions, Negative Beliefs and Perfectionism: How insecure attachment can lead to eating disorders
03/07/2023
126: Emotions, Negative Beliefs and Perfectionism: How insecure attachment can lead to eating disorders
Research is now showing that something called “attachment styles” may also explain why people with a history of toxic stress related to childhood trauma or to other specific childhood issues (abandonment, neglect, abrupt separation from a parent, frequent changes in caregivers, or lack of caregiver responsiveness) may have food and body image issues. Individuals who were raised in a family where their parents invalidated their views or feelings are more likely to binge and purge or have other disordered eating behaviors. In this episode, you will learn: What are the 4 attachment styles? How many people with anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder have insecure attachment styles. How is perfectionism related to attachment style and to eating disorders. How can insecure attachment make you more vulnerable to the social media message about dieting and the thin ideal?
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125: Weight Stigma, Medical Backlash and Social Justice – Conversation with Stephanie Dodier
01/24/2023
125: Weight Stigma, Medical Backlash and Social Justice – Conversation with Stephanie Dodier
Stephanie Dodier of “Going Beyond the Food” has been a guest on my podcast many times and our conversations have always been honest and cover a variety of topics. Today, we talked about the toxicity that exists in the world of eating disorders, black and white thinking, backlash from the medical profession, what it means to really do your own trauma work and how social justice is an important part of healing our relationship with food and our bodies. In this episode you will learn: Why I call trauma work, the new “healthism” How black and white thinking has caused an us vs. them mentality in the work with people with food addiction, emotional eating and binge eating. Why the desperation for a thinner body continues to be paired with being happy and being healthy.
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Change your relationship with food NOW! Learn to eat with JOY!
01/11/2023
Change your relationship with food NOW! Learn to eat with JOY!
You may have dieting whiplash and just frankly have so much misinformation that you really don’t know what is good for your body and what is not. So you end up eating lots of raw carrots and celery or stick mainly to salads. While there may be kernels of truth in expert nutritional advice, nutritional confusion also contributes to unhealthy eating styles. Joyful eating is about determining what works for you and your body, and learning to eat those foods with joy and without guilt or fear. In this podcast, you will learn: What is joyful eating? How can joyful eating help me with binge eating, food addiction and emotional eating? What you can do to learn to eat with JOY?
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123: Food Shaming
12/27/2022
123: Food Shaming
Food shaming is when someone criticizes or judges what another person is eating. Food shaming can be intentional but even with unintentional, can lead to guilt, shame and embarrassment. Constant examination of what you are eating or what someone else is eating are all part of the diet mentality and diet culture. Diet culture endorses the importance of staying thin which then leads to the compulsion to feel you have to watch every calorie that goes into your mouth and eat foods that fit into diet culture where it’s all about the calories In this podcast you will learn: How food shaming can make your food addiction, binge eating and emotional eating worse. Why food shaming is part of the “arousal cycle” of those with food addiction. What you can do to reduce food shaming from others and from yourself.
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122: Grief and Loss Have Overwhelmed my Food Addiction and Binge Eating
12/13/2022
122: Grief and Loss Have Overwhelmed my Food Addiction and Binge Eating
Grief following the death of a loved one is well studied and understood. Researchers have documented an initial period of numbness, followed by sadness or depression and then reorganization and recovery. Grief in this case is used to describe how we react to loss - physically, emotionally, behaviorally and cognitively. It is not uncommon when we experience a loss that we default to old behaviors such as binge eating, obsessing about food and emotional eating. The emotions associated with grief can feel overwhelming and we may reach for the comfort of our old friend – food. In this podcast you will learn: Why is there no time limit on grief? What are “normal” responses to grief? What role does food play in the grieving process?
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121: What is Childhood Trauma and is it the Cause of my Food Addiction?
11/29/2022
121: What is Childhood Trauma and is it the Cause of my Food Addiction?
What is trauma? Well, in the past, most people would say, "Trauma is severe abuse or neglect." But our more modern definition of trauma is that trauma is anything that causes you to lose an essential part of yourself – a sense of security or safety, peace or love. Over 2/3 of children under age 16 reported at least 1 traumatic event by age 16. What is important to understand is that trauma is common in individuals with substance use disorders and eating disorders. In fact, a history of trauma can increase your risk for attention deficit disorder, depression, anxiety as well as many medical issues including diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer. Recognizing that you or a family member has experienced childhood trauma can help you understand why you’ve had trouble dealing with food and body image issues such as food addiction, binge eating and emotional eating. In this episode, you will learn: What are examples of childhood trauma? How does childhood trauma lead to binge eating, food addiction or emotional eating? What can family members do to help heal childhood trauma?
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120: Interview with Julie Duffy Dillon
11/15/2022
120: Interview with Julie Duffy Dillon
In the podcast, I interview friend and colleague, Julie Duffy Dillon who is a specialist in Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). We discuss the importance of addressing TRUE determinants of health – what makes us healthy and how weight loss does not have to be part of that equation. We also discuss treatment of PCOS including use of supplements and talk about weight stigma. In this podcast, you will learn: What is PCOS? How does having binge eating, food addiction or emotional eating affect PCOS? What is weight inclusive medical care and how can I get it?
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119: Eating Disorders in the Workplace
11/01/2022
119: Eating Disorders in the Workplace
We spend about a third of our adult lives in the workplace. Work can improve mental health for some individuals – providing them with a sense of meaning and purpose and offering valuable social connections. However, for individuals with binge eating disorder, food addiction or emotional eating, work can also be a source of stress and stigma that can make their eating disorder worse or can lead to relapse. In this podcast, you will learn: How the workplace can be a trigger for people with eating disorders. How having an eating disorder can make workplace stress worse. What are 3 actions you can take so reduce relapse or triggers in the workplace.
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118: Interview with Ali Shapiro
10/18/2022
118: Interview with Ali Shapiro
My guest on the podcast today is Ali Shapiro – the creator of Truce with Food® and the Truce Coaching Framework Certification, host of the top-ranked podcast Insatiable, a holistic nutritionist, integrated health coach and rebel with a serious cause. My interview with Ali covers a wide range of topics including how the body positivity movement has been co-opted, how her struggle with childhood cancer helped her explore her relationship with her body and more! In this podcast you will learn: What it means to have a truce with your body. What is self-trust and how does it help heal from eating disorders like food addiction, binge eating and emotional eating? What role does experimentation play in healing your food and body image issues?
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117: How do I forgive those who have hurt me to heal
10/04/2022
117: How do I forgive those who have hurt me to heal
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116: Body Image Issues in Men
09/20/2022
116: Body Image Issues in Men
Aaron Flores is a dietician and health at every size, body trust and intuitive eating advocate who works with individuals with eating disorders, including males. While eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder often are seen as affecting mainly women and girls, studies show that men and boys are also impacted. Binge Eating Disorder, in particular affects males almost as much as it affects females. In this podcast, you will learn: How are men with eating disorders different than women with eating disorders? What is the impact of weight stigma on individuals with eating disorders? Why is it so difficult for men with eating disorders to seek treatment?
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115: Leveraging Your Brain Power to Overcome RDS
09/06/2022
115: Leveraging Your Brain Power to Overcome RDS
This is the third and final part of our series on RDS. In Episode #112 and #114, I discussed what RDS is and how it could impact your eating behaviors as well as what caused RDS and how sugar addiction that you’ve read about is related to RDS. In this episode I will be discussing what steps you can take to heal your brain from RDS and that will positively affect your recovery from food addiction, binge eating and emotional eating. In this episode, you will learn: What is the difference between emotional mind and rational mind and how can you use this information to manage cravings. What are positive natural reinforcers that you can use to increase dopamine in the brain? What are 3 specific things you can do to heal your brain from RDS, food addiction, binge eating and emotional eating?
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114: Food and Mood and RDS
08/23/2022
114: Food and Mood and RDS
In episode #112 I talked to you about Reward Deficiency Syndrome – what is and how it may contribute to food addiction, emotional eating or binge eating. In this episode, I will discuss the causes of dopamine depletion or reward deficiency syndrome. I will also talk about how having RDS can affect your preferences for certain foods, cause cravings and lead to unwanted eating behaviors. In this episode, you will learn: What causes reward deficiency syndrome? How are our eating behaviors used to manage our mood? What are the three stages of eating? How internal opiates impact our eating behaviors? What’s the truth about sugar addiction?
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113: Developmental Trauma - Interview with Dr. Joanne and Dr. Lynne on
08/01/2022
113: Developmental Trauma - Interview with Dr. Joanne and Dr. Lynne on
Trauma has been show to increase the risk for eating disorders and addictions. There has been much research showing that early childhood trauma can really change a person’s life trajectory – causing problems with learning, attention, memory and the ability to regulate emotions. Despite these traumatic experiences, individuals with trauma are able to live healthy, successful and fulfilling lives. Healing the trauma is key to healing addictions, eating disorders and other mental health issues. In this podcast you’ll learn: What is developmental trauma? How does developmental trauma show up in our lives? What are signs that you may be suffering from developmental trauma?
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112: What is Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS) and how can it help me heal my Food Addiction
07/18/2022
112: What is Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS) and how can it help me heal my Food Addiction
You may never have heard about RDS but it may be critical to understanding why your food and body image issues are so difficult to heal from. If you have binge eating, food addiction or emotional eating, you may have a genetic risk for RDS or early childhood trauma may have increased your risk for RDS. In this podcast, you will learn: What is reward deficiency syndrome? How can I tell if I have RDS? How does RDS cause food cravings, food obsessions and unwanted binging behaviors?
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111: How to Free Yourself from the Tyranny of the Scale
06/10/2022
111: How to Free Yourself from the Tyranny of the Scale
In this episode, I will share with you some of my personal struggles with the tyranny of the scale. I will also talk about body shaming and weight stigma especially when it comes from physicians and will give you my responses to and anger about the medical profession which continues to make everything about size. If you’re struggling with binge eating, emotional eating and food addiction, you may also be experiencing internalized weight stigma. This can make it more difficult for you to care for your body in a healthy way. In this episode you will learn: 5 Questions you can ask yourself to find out if you’re a victim of scale tyranny. Four solutions for dealing with doctors around the issue of food and body image issues. Why I say that body image is not about your body!
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110: The Future of Eating Disorder Treatment (with Dr. Jillian Lampert)
05/12/2022
110: The Future of Eating Disorder Treatment (with Dr. Jillian Lampert)
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109: I’ve lost my passion and purpose and food is all I have!
04/26/2022
109: I’ve lost my passion and purpose and food is all I have!
Being out of touch with or disconnected from your spirit can lead to spiritual depletion. Spiritual depletion can exacerbate binge eating, food addiction and emotional eating. Spiritual emptiness is a sick- ness that has signs and symptoms just like any physical illness. It’s important that you recognize the signs so you can address the causes of spiritual depletion with as much compassion and care as you would any other illness. In this episode you will learn: What are the signs and symptoms of spiritual depletion? What causes spiritual depletion and how is it related to binge eating, food addiction and emotional eating? What can you do to re-nourish your spirit and cope better with challenging stresses?
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108: Help! I’m Stressed to the Max and I can’t Stop Eating!
03/31/2022
108: Help! I’m Stressed to the Max and I can’t Stop Eating!
If you are struggle with food addiction, emotional eating or binge eating, stress can trigger emotions that you may have been regulating with food. Managing stress without food requires that you learn a new set of skills to use when you’re feeling overwhelmed, worn out, or stressed to the max. Managing stress also requires learning to tap into your body’s wisdom to identify the early warning signs and symptoms of stress, a key first step toward handling stress differently. Stress management involves a moment-by-moment mindful awareness that you may not naturally possess but that you can learn. In this podcast, you will learn: What the difference is between stress and burnout. Why loneliness can exacerbate stress and shorten your lifespan. Key steps you can take to build resilience to stress.
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107: Betsy Thurston Interview
03/15/2022
107: Betsy Thurston Interview
In this podcast, I will interview Betsy Thurston, a dietician who also specializes in the use of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy as a unique tool in treating her eating disorder clients. The founder of IFS, Dr. Richard Schwartz describes IFS as “a powerfully transformative, evidence-based model of psychotherapy.” We will discuss how she has seen IFS work for her clients who struggle with eating disorders. In this podcast you will learn: What is Internal Family Systems Therapy? How is IFS different from other therapies? How can IFS help patients heal from food and body image issues?
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106: How to, for once and for all, make peace with your body
03/09/2022
106: How to, for once and for all, make peace with your body
If you are dissatisfied with your body, you are not alone. While having self-doubts is a normal part of being human, if your self-evaluation is primarily dependent on your superficial appearance, your size or shape, that can lead to shame, negative self-talk, suffering and the use of extreme and harmful behaviors to reach the ever-elusive thin ideal. As well, it’s important to realize that trying to “hate yourself thin” can put stress on your body and increase belly fat and risk for diabetes and heart disease. In this episode you will learn: What some women are willing to give up in exchange for a thin body. How to stop the transmission of body image issues from one generation to another. Why weight stigma may be the reason for health risks, not size!
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105: How body movement can help heal binge eating and food addiction
03/04/2022
105: How body movement can help heal binge eating and food addiction
Physical activity has been co-opted by the diet industry just as food has – in other words, only good to get you to lose weight. No wonder thinking about body movement may send you into a fit of resistance or rebellion or make you feel guilty – feeling you’re not doing enough or not doing the right kind of activity that the experts say you should. If you struggle with binge eating, food addiction or emotional eating, you may struggle in finding a way to move your body that doesn’t feel like something you have to do or something you feel bad about not doing. In this podcast, you will learn: How to recognize if you’ve experienced exercise trauma. How to reclaim body movement as a form of self-expression. What the 3 most common reasons for not being physically active are and how to address them.
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104: Skills you can use to stop binging and overeating NOW
02/14/2022
104: Skills you can use to stop binging and overeating NOW
The first goal of therapy if you have binge eating, compulsive overeating, food addiction or emotional eating should be interrupting any current unwanted behaviors, such as bingeing, overeating, obsessing about food or your body. But these behaviors are so automatic and so linked to emotions that often are not acknowledged or even recognized, that it’s hard to stop or interrupt them. There are skills that can help you if you want to move on and just don’t know how. In this podcast you will learn: Why practicing certain skills can help you end unwanted behaviors. Five skills you can put into practice immediately. How skills can help uncouple your emotions from your unwanted behaviors.
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103: Breaking free of the foods that hold you hostage
01/28/2022
103: Breaking free of the foods that hold you hostage
If you have binge eating, food addiction or emotional eating, you may know that diet culture has rebranded itself as “healthy” vs. the prior focus on the thin ideal, losing weight or getting skinny. There has also been a trend by social media influencers to market detox products to make money, but in doing so, they may be contributing to the development of eating disorders in their followers. Your body has its own detoxification system. There are things you can do to give your body and mind a “reset” for the new year that will help you deal with cravings, binging, body dissatisfaction and food obsessions. In this podcast you will learn: Why detox products can be dangerous. What is orthorexia? How can mindfulness help your break free of food obsessions. Specific steps you can take to reset your body and mind in the new year.
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102: Five Steps to Recovery: #5 Finding Soul Satisfaction
01/11/2022
102: Five Steps to Recovery: #5 Finding Soul Satisfaction
If you’re struggling with food addiction, binge eating or emotional eating, at some point you may have come to realize that there’s something deeper to your food and body image issues. If you ask yourself what the cause is of most of your suffering about your food obsessions and body hatred, you may realize that it is because of these problems you have not allowed yourself to express who you truly are. You may have held yourself back in your career, in relationships, as a parent and in other roles you play in life because of your size. The ultimate goal of recovery from binge eating, food addiction or emotional eating is to find soul satisfaction and to bring it into all areas of your life, including your relationship with food and how you feel about your body. In this episode, you will learn: What is soul satisfaction? What does soul satisfaction have to do with my binge eating, food addiction or emotional eating? Why is soul satisfaction not about religion or even spirituality? How can food and body image issues be metaphors for what is missing in your life?
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101: Five Steps to Recovery: #4 Creating New Core Beliefs
12/27/2021
101: Five Steps to Recovery: #4 Creating New Core Beliefs
Unconscious core beliefs can stand between you and your goal to put an end to your food, body image, and weight issues. When first formed, usually when you were younger and during times of transition, trauma, or emotional upheaval, core beliefs are solutions to problems you couldn’t solve—perhaps because you didn’t have the resources at the time. Research highlights the importance of addressing negative core beliefs; when they are not addressed, you may find it more difficult to stop unhealthy behaviors. Examples of core beliefs include: I’m not worthy, I’m not good enough and more. Negative core beliefs play an important role in the development and maintenance of the symptoms of food addiction, binge eating and emotional eating. In this episode you will learn: What are core beliefs? How do core beliefs stand between you and what you desire most in your life? How can you change a negative core belief?
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100: The Five Steps to Recovery: #3 Embracing the Body's Wisdom
12/13/2021
100: The Five Steps to Recovery: #3 Embracing the Body's Wisdom
If you’ve been struggling with binge eating, emotional eating and food addiction for most of your life, you may view your body as an adversary. When you experience negative feelings about your body, it may be the result of past hurtful experiences from childhood, which can lead to a disconnection between you and your body. This can lead to your self-evaluation (how you feel about yourself) being tied to your body size or shape and a desire to whip your body into shape. When you reconnect to your body, you can tap into a vast reservoir of wisdom and advise that will guide you in your recovery from binge eating, emotional eating and food addiction. In this episode you will learn: What is body image? What are the 3 causes of negative body image? What in your childhood is the key to understanding your body image issues?
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99: The Five Steps to Recovery: #2 - Emerging from the emotional soup
11/23/2021
99: The Five Steps to Recovery: #2 - Emerging from the emotional soup
Did you know that there is a hidden force that drives your behaviors associated with food addiction, emotional eating and binge eating? This hidden force is your emotions and when you struggle to regulate your emotions, it can have a big impact on your binge eating, emotional eating and food addiction behaviors. If you have food and body image issues, you may respond to emotions by using food to numb yourself or tamp down even happy feelings. Both reactions to emotional pain are two sides of the same coin—attempts to escape from your emotions, or from the “emotional soup.” In this episode you will learn: What is the emotional soup? What are the 4 things you need to know to get out of the emotional soup? How can being stuck in your emotions affect your food and body image issues? Why how you express your emotions is the same as how you deal with food.
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98: The Five Steps to Recovery: #1 Stopping Superficial Behaviors
11/16/2021
98: The Five Steps to Recovery: #1 Stopping Superficial Behaviors
If you’ve tried different diets to help with food obsessions, binge eating or emotional eating, you may have concluded that your food and weight issues are not about food. These issues are about how you use food to deal with your emotions, experiences from your past, and beliefs that have resulted from past hurts or traumas. By working on your food and weight issues on a deeper level, you can expect your healing to also be deeper and more sustainable. Over the next podcasts I will be sharing with you the 5 Steps to Recovery from food and body image issues. In this episode you will learn: Why focusing on the number on the scale cannot provide lasting results. How to stop unwanted behaviors related to food and body image issues. Why the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine may have made your food and body image issues a lot worse!
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