Episode 04: On this episode I will be reviewing a Tedx talk. Emotiona by Tricia Nelson.

She shares her own struggle with emotional eating and how she overcome yo-yo dieting losing and gaining weight.  Tricia has  30 years experience working in this field and with addiction.  PEP is the framework that she uses to support people struggling with emotional eating and she credits her own success to following those principles.  Food as a.       Driver of emotions  P-painkillers-             pain  E- escape -                fear  P- punishment-        guilt Tricia Nelson has a book called Healing Your Hunger.  Part 2 -Lessons from the counselling classroom. I discuss  two modalities that can support you with changing your mindset after WLS. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) &Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) which is new and something that's been adopted for treatment of addictions. CBT  and ACT can be used in conjunction with each to address emotional eating and long-term behaviour change.  Part 3 - Food for thought  I react to a topic that I have seen on social media and give my opinion on it. You will have to listen to find out what the topic is..