#137 - Emotional Eating Part 1 - How we develop our coping patterns - with Megan Grimord

Do you ever wonder why or how you developed your emotional eating habits?Do you think about how you’d want to raise your kids so they don’t struggle with the same issues?That’s exactly what Megan and I discussed this week.Megan has been on the show before (Episode 127), and we realized we needed to go deeper into emotional eating and how it’s impacted both of our lives.We didn’t even get to everything we wanted to cover, but this week we really focused on our own development and how we might influence our kids’ relationship with food.In this episode, we talk about:• What emotional eating actually looks like (not the cleaned-up version)• How different upbringings can lead to the same struggles• The quiet habits that follow you into adulthood without you realizing it• Why “fixing your diet” doesn’t fix your relationship with food• What changes when you finally stop avoiding the deeper stuff• Why forcing kids to clean their plates can backfire• How labeling foods as “good” or “bad” can really mess with them• The difference between making food normal vs. making it emotional• Letting kids have a choice without turning every meal into chaos• Why some of the habits we thought were harmless weren’tIf you’ve ever said, “I don’t even know why I eat like this sometimes…”This will hit.Because it’s not just about food.It’s about where the pattern started and whether you’re willing to actually look at it.This is part 1, and we’ll be doing another emotional eating episode in the future.Find Megan on Instagram: @megan_grimord