Always Thinking About Food? End Your Food Cravings FOR GOOD

From the Show: HER
Summary: Could food triggers be the blame for overeating or binge eating?
Air Date: 2/12/15
Duration: 10
Host: Michelle King Robson and Pamela Peeke, MD
Guest Bio: Rhona Epstein, PsyD
RhonaRhona Epstein, Psy.D., C.A.C., is a licensed psychologist, certified addictions counselor, and marriage and family therapist in the Philadelphia area, and the author of Food Triggers: End Your Cravings, Eat Well, and Live Better (Worthy).

For more than twenty-five years, she's lead seminars, conferences, and therapeutic workshops to help people overcome food addiction and its underlying issues. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Chestnut Hill College, and her master's degree in counseling psychology from Temple University.

She's passionate, from her own personal experience and recovery from food addiction, to address the needs of the whole person (mind, body, and spirit).
  • Book Title: Food Triggers: End Your Cravings, Eat Well, and Live Better (Worthy)
Always Thinking About Food? End Your Food Cravings FOR GOOD
More than likely you've had an occasional slip-up when trying to avoid certain foods while dieting.

There's no need to be ashamed of it, since it can happen to anyone. However, if you're someone who's struggling with an eating disorder, having certain triggers around food can cause a serious problem.

A trigger is something that can set off a memory in someone and bring you back to the place where you've experienced some kind of trauma. Every person is different, and there are certain triggers you may try to avoid completely so that you're not taken back to that negative place.

Even though food addiction has similar traits to other addictions like drugs and alcohol, it can be more difficult to treat. Usually with drug addicts and alcoholics, you have to completely stop using. It's also suggested to avoid triggers like being around those who use drugs and/or alcohol.

However, you can't just avoid food; you need it in order to survive.

Through her own personal experience with food addiction, Rhona Epstein, PsyD, wrote a new book, Food Triggers: End Your Cravings, Eat Well, and Live Better to help others like you who may be suffering from food addiction, having trouble conquering your triggers, and may not know where to turn for help.