Spicy Life • Health Wellness Lifestyle

Our relationship with food is complex and emotional. It makes sense that when we are under enormous stress (and what’s more stressful than an invisible highly contagious virus) we tend to turn to food for comfort, distraction, and self-soothing. When this happens, we tune out our body’s signals of hunger and satiation and just eat. We stop eating to satisfy a physical need and attempt to use food to meet an emotional one. Sometimes it feels good in the moment. The food satisfies the need for distraction, comfort, or even excitement. But afterward, we feel bad about whatever we were feeling bad about to begin with and now, we may feel bad about what (or how much) we ate, too. This tends to create a negative cycle of: Feel bad, eat, feel bad, eat. So what do you do to break the cycle? In this episode, my guest Jalpa shares her best tips based on her own personal experience overcoming emotional eating, plus decades of clinical experience treating people with eating issues as a therapist. As a Reiki Master and Nutrition Coach, Jalpa’s mission is to guide clients to realize their own power by tapping into their higher self and releasing what no longer serves them - physically, mentally, & spiritually.

Sydney Weiss is a Executive Producer & Creative Host of Seek the Joy Podcast and a Entertainment Lawyer in La, CA. She is all about mindfulness and living life with seeking joy in little things in life and sharing it with the World.