Binge Dieting Learn how to change your relationship with Eating

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about the beginning of a success story involving alcohol and eating during the time of Covid-19.  She walks listeners through her journey, step by step.  Internal Family Systems, Pema Chodrin, Compassionate Curiosity, Courage and Boundaries all play a role. 

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about how to manage emotions such as panic, anxiety, fear, or anger without resorting to food. She includes a role play between internal parts of us using internal family systems therapy (IFS) . Betsy also covers key points needed to survive eating problems during this stressful time period including the anti inflammatory diet, structuring meals and creating boundaries.  

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about the values and habits of mind that result from our relationship with our parents and how this drives issues with food problems or an inability to stay focused with health goals. She talks about three clients and their specific stories, and at the end she gives a sneak peak into the groundbreaking work of Steven Kessler and The 5 Personality Patterns.  

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about what to do when the habit of mindless overeating takes over. She talks about several clients and their experiences including stress over jobs, physical pain, dating, needing to be perfect, and managing a longstanding pattern of using food to soothe. She tells a story about hearing spiritual guidance and about what researchers suggest helps most with willpower.  

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about somatic experiencing as a tool to help understand reasons for some habits and behaviors related to eating.  Betsy explains how to apply this technique and also talks about several different clients and their struggles and insights.  She talks about clients with various concerns: with a diet mountain dew addiction, an impulse to eat very fast, general anxiety around eating, needing to be perfect when eating, and having a resistance to exercising.  

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about how to trust the body and listen to it through the perspective of our two separate selves (our higher self and our human self).  She also addresses practical issues regarding protein, fiber, check lists for food, and addressing physical versus emotional hunger.  

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about how to be in the midst of the holiday parties or other social events as well as around family tension without overeating.  She looks at concepts from spiritual teachings as well as practical food advice.  Several concerns of various clients are also considered.  

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about many types of physical pain in the body, eating disorders, and anxiety and depression as a process in the brain called Mind Body Syndrome.  Healing from these symptoms is possible and she presents tools to help this happen.  Manifesting your dreams and creating your reality can happen. 

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about the experiences of two separate clients and the behaviors that sabotaged their efforts to stay with their health goals.  She talks about specific ideas and suggestions regarding food and goal setting and also about helpful spiritual concepts

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about an effective tool to shift out of unhealthy eating patterns or worry about food and the body.  She uses examples from clients in her practice to help demonstrate how to work with this tool. Specific practices are provided at the end. 

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about one of her best tools for improving outcomes related to eating, body, and food concerns and includes common problems her clients share such as worrying that they look fat, worrying that they shouldn't have just overeaten, worrying that they will always struggle with food issues, and worrying that they aren't good enough. By understand how to use this tool amazing changes can happen in a relatively short period of time.  

Betsy Thurston MPH RD brings listeners into a group exercise which delves into the drivers behind our compulsions to overeat or to lose focus on our health goals.  Listeners will get a front seat into the experience of letting go of those habits that sabotage our efforts. The answers will be inside of a backpack!!

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about some common roles in the family and how they might influence eating behaviors. She also covers some of the unspoken rules that are often present in families that can create enormous internal upset.   At the beginning of the podcast Betsy lists 8 eating ideas and habits that can help you feel more in control and confident.  

Betsy Thurston MPH RD talks about self sabotage and specifically the voice inside that tells us it's hopeless to even try to change our eating patterns, so just go ahead and eat.....  On this podcast Betsy talks about one special trick and also explores some specific examples of managing sabotage with her clients using the model of internal family systems. 

Betsy Thurston MPH RD teaches a tool which can help you learn how to control your impulses and destructive thoughts and eating patterns.  Without learning how to train the brain, you are likely to continue repeating the same behaviors.