Podcasts by The Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross Show: Binge Eating Disorder, Stress Eating, Emotional Eating, Food Addiction

87: Eating Disorders in Pregnancy with Jaren Soloff, RD from 2021-05-10T13:00

"Pregnancy can be an intense time for women with eating disorders."

Most eating disorders, including binge eating disorder, food addiction, and emotional eating occur in women durin...

86: Discovering the Joy of Eating with Rachael Hartley from 2021-04-23T13:00

"How would you eat if you weren’t trying to lose weight?" - Rachael Hartley

My guest, Rachael Hartley, and I will discuss how to change your relationship with food from one of eating only...

85: How Our Food Has Been Engineered to be Addictive from 2021-04-09T13:00

"Research has shown that HALF of all the foods Americans eat are ultra-processed “industrial formulations.”

There's been a lot of talk about whether foods can be addictive or not.  In tru...

84: Stressed, Tired and Binging – You May Have Adrenal Fatigue from 2021-03-24T13:00

Whether you've been stressed about your health, suffered losses, tired of the quarantine, had financial stressors, working long hours, or had a relationship breakup, stress has become a constant...

83: I Don’t Like the Way I Feel About My Body from 2021-03-10T14:00

"Body image is the picture you hold in your mind of your body."

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82: What You Should Know About the Intermittent Fasting Diet from 2021-02-24T14:00

"There is no one diet that works for everyBODY."

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81: The 5 Things You Don't Know About Food Addiction from 2021-02-10T14:00

There are over 200 million searches on Google for the term “food addiction.” Food addiction affects a large number of individuals, even though it's not accepted as a true diagnosis (yet) by the ...

80: The Relationship Between Binge Eating and Grieving from 2021-01-27T14:00

"Everyone's experience of grief is unique - there is no "right" way to grieve."

Grief is a normal reaction to any major loss. If you've lost a loved one during the pandem...

79: The Ultimate Guide to Ending Food Cravings NOW! from 2021-01-20T14:00

"Depriving yourself of foods you crave just sets you up for more cravings"

Are you struggling with food cravings?  Well, you're not alone.  At least 50% of people experience food cravings...

78: This Might Be the BEST New Years Resolution You Can Make from 2021-01-11T14:00

"Gratitude is the glue that lets us maintain our optimism!"

The New Year is usually a time when we make resolutions, express our hope for the future, and shake off our past troubles to ma...

77: Quarantine Resilience – Growing Through Our Pain from 2020-12-21T14:00

“Pain can be an invitation to heal.”

When we began talking about the quarantine it was 8 months ago and I'm sure you, like me, had no idea that it would last this long.  Because it has la...

76: Food and Money - Interview with Francine Rogers from 2020-12-14T14:00

“Food and money are both used to self-soothe.”

You may not be aware that if you have binge eating, food addiction, or emotional eating, your relationship with food may be a mirror for you...

75: Fullness - An Interview with Author Azure Moyna from 2020-12-04T14:00

“Dysfunction in a family can trigger eating and body image issues.”

Azure Moyna has written a memoir about her journey to healing from an eating disorder and how her childhood trauma and ...

74: Midlife Eating Disorders from 2020-11-23T14:00

Midlife eating disorders are increasingly common in women. Some midlife women experience binge eating, compulsive overeating, food addiction, or emotional eating. Others may develop anorexia or ...

73: Depression and Binge Eating Disorder from 2020-11-18T14:00

In some studies, the association is between 84% and 100% of those with these eating disorders also having depression and anxiety.  Binging, food obsessions, and body image issues can trigger or ...

72: Emotions, Food and the Body from 2020-11-09T14:00

The current pandemic has resulted in an increase in fears about financial security.  People have been experiencing feelings of stress, failure, and anxiety around money matters.  Dr. Galen Buckw...

71: Why Being a "Good Girl" Leaves Much to be Desired from 2020-11-02T14:00

"A woman's fury holds lifetimes of wisdom." (Actress Traci Ellis)

Being a “good girl” often means at its most basic level, not being authentic; not being able to express yourself authenti...

70: Interview #3 with an Anchor Program Graduate from 2020-10-26T13:00

The Anchor Program is an online program that offers a non-diet approach to treating binge eating, compulsive overeating, food addiction, and emotional eating. The video below is an interview wit...

69: Interview #2 with an Anchor Program Graduate from 2020-10-21T13:00

The Anchor Program is an online program that offers a non-diet approach to treating binge eating, compulsive overeating, food addiction, and emotional eating. The video below is an interview wit...

68: How to Stop Using Food as a Crutch from 2020-10-12T13:00

If you've been using binge eating, emotional eating or food addiction behaviors or body dissatisfaction as a way to deal with your stress, emotions or to deal with underlying childhood beliefs o...

67: Interview with an Anchor Program Graduate from 2020-10-05T13:00

The Anchor Program is an online program that offers a non-diet approach to treating binge eating, compulsive overeating, food addiction, and emotional eating. The video below is an interview wit...

66: I Feel Fat Today! from 2020-09-28T13:00

Many of the people I work with - whether it be with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, food addiction, or emotional eating - see their bodies as separate from their lives (and never the t...

65: Overcoming Body Hatred from 2020-09-07T13:00

Many people with food and body image issues hold on to the belief that the only thing keeping them from being fat or fatter is having to whip themselves in shape periodically, or getting mad at ...

64: Do I Need to Lose Weight to be Healthy? - Part 2 from 2020-08-31T13:00

Research from the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study demonstrates that the true causes of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and other chronic diseases may be related to your childhood.  

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63: Do I Need to Lose Weight to be Healthy? - Part 1 from 2020-08-18T09:38:03

I have so many patients who come to me absolutely certain that they have to be thin in order to be healthy.  Usually, these are women who have been dieting, hating their bodies, being obsessed w...

62: Are You Prepared for Your Next Relapse? from 2020-08-05T12:44:50

You may be afraid to think about the possibility of relapsing from binge eating, food addiction, or emotional eating in the future. In fact, many people believe that even talking about lapses gi...

61: Why Am I Binging More During the Pandemic - Part 2 from 2020-08-03T15:02:31

Many people who are in recovery from binge eating, food addiction, or emotional eating stay at the superficial level, as in not obsessing about food or not bingeing. While it is important to ove...

60: Why Am I Binging More During the Pandemic? – Part 1 from 2020-07-21T13:00

Do you want to overcome binge eating, get food addiction help or have freedom from emotional eating? Are you finding yourself binge eating more during the COVID-19 pandemic? You may feel like yo...

59: Food Addiction Help from 2020-07-13T13:00

Food addiction, like addiction to drugs or alcohol, often begins as a way to manage stress, turn up the volume on pleasant emotions (like happiness or comfort), or dampen uncomfortable feelings ...

58: What to Do After Binge Eating from 2020-07-09T01:19:02

It's been a tough day, week, month!  You've been struggling with your eating behaviors and you've been upset that you've starting binging more often.  Things had been going well for a while and ...

57: You Don't Know What You Don't Know from 2020-06-29T13:00

Awareness Is Not Enough. Implicit bias makes it acceptable to discriminate against people for race but also for size, sexual orientation, age, and abilities.  You may have a hard time identifyin...

56: I Overeat Because I Just Love Food from 2020-06-15T13:30

Have you ever heard someone say:  "The reason I overeat, is because I just love food"?  I hear this a lot from my patients with food and body image issues.  But when you think about it - food do...

55: Shall I Tell You What I Find Most Beautiful About You? from 2020-06-15T13:00

The question above comes from the 1984 movie “Starman” and has stuck in my mind because the answer to that question is what exemplifies what makes Americans great. Protests about the death of Ge...

54: Consistency Trumps Intensity from 2020-05-25T14:00

Consistency trumps intensity and novelty. What does that mean?  I hear over and over how my patients are able to stick with a new (novel)  eating plan, exercise routine, or (fill in the blank) f...

53: Stress Builds Character from 2020-05-18T14:00

Research has shown that toxic stress - for example, adverse childhood experiences (prolonged and extreme stress without compensatory support) changes the brain - increasing the risk for addictio...

52: Healthism from 2020-05-05T02:00

Health, particularly behavioral health, has become bound up in morality. The term for this is “healthism” based on a philosophy that everyone is responsible for their health but in a way that ma...

51: Coping during COVID 19 from 2020-04-27T14:00

FREE MEDITATIONS – bit.ly/crossmd

The Anchor Program is an Online 12-week non-diet program for people with binge eating, food addiction, and emotional eating: https://AnchorProgram.com

50: Overcoming Food Shame from 2020-04-21T02:00

Food shame is common in individuals with binge eating, food addiction, emotional or stress eating. Certain foods are more prone to being a source of shame and can lead to overeating and binging....

49: I’ve Been Sick. How Are You? from 2020-04-13T14:00

The past few weeks have been difficult for many people, myself included. I'm reaching out to you now because I also know that if you have binge eating disorder, food addiction or you are an emot...

48: Emotions, Food and the Body from 2020-04-06T14:00

If you are an emotional overeater, this problem probably began early in your life. As a child, if you were not taught to manage your emotions, you may be at higher risk for engaging in emotional...

47: What Am I Really Hungry For? from 2020-03-23T14:00

Many people feel their emotions are overwhelming while other people may have completely shut down any access to their emotions and even have trouble identifying what they are feeling. Both react...

46: How to Stop Mindless Emotional Eating from 2020-03-16T14:00

STUDY GUIDE: HOMEWORK

Identify specific emotions and their body sensations. Then list a situation when you remember feeling each emotion s...

45: How Can I Ever Gain Control and Heal My Food and Body Image Issues from 2020-03-09T10:00

I’ve discussed in recent emails and podcasts the importance of recognizing how shame and guilt can affect your eating be...

44: How Do I Heal My Guilt About What I've Done in the Past from 2020-03-02T15:00

Ever blame yourself for something you think you should have done or something you did that was wrong? Maybe you blame yourself for your last binge or for not living up to your values or goals fo...

43: Self-Compassion Beyond Food and Body Image from 2020-02-26T17:00

On today’s episode I will discuss:

1. What is self-compassion?
2. Why is self-compassion so important?
3. How can you develop self-compassion?

HOMEWORK:

Li...

42: Why Do I Binge When I Feel Shame from 2020-02-24T11:00

In this episode, I will be discussing how shame that can start in childhood can impact your eating behaviors, self-confidence, and self-acceptance.

Homework to journal about :

Exer...

41: Overcoming Resistance to Binge Eating Disorder Recovery from 2020-01-20T11:00

In today’s episode, I will be discussing 5 points of resistance in trying to overcome binge eating disorder that can keep you stuck, repeating the same behaviors ...

40: Help! I Need a Miracle in 2020!! from 2020-01-06T11:00

On today’s episode, I will be discussing: A new way for you to manage your relationship with food and your body in the New Year

What you’ll learn listening to this episode:
1. What ...

39: Put an End to Stress Eating from 2019-12-23T11:00

In today’s episode I will be discussing how to end stress eating.

Stress can be difficult to define because it has so many causes and is different for different people. But you know what ...

38: I’m a Guy...I Can’t Possibly Have an Eating Disorder from 2019-12-16T11:00

A growing number of studies are showing an increase in men with eating disorders. For men, there is an even greater stigma and even less awareness about eating disorders, which makes it difficul...

37: Overcoming Barriers to Making Changes in Your Life from 2019-12-04T13:30:59

Dr. Armstrong discusses the role of the psyche in helping us to make positive transformations in our lives, and the role of the spirit in sustaining this transformative work. As well we talk abo...

Religion And The Drive To Be Thin With Michelle Lelwica, ThD from 2019-11-01T10:00

Carolyn Coker Ross and guest Michelle Lelwica, ThD<...

Health Beyond Diet With Stephanie Dodier from 2019-10-07T10:00

For decades, we’ve been told that you have to lose weight to be healthy. This mindset gave birth to the diet culture that many have suffered from. In this episode, get ready to take your life ba...

Healthy Gut, Healthy Mind? with Dr. Emeran Mayer from 2019-09-30T10:00

We have all experienced the connection between our mind and our gut – the decision we made because it “felt right,” the butterflies in our stomach before a big meeting, the anxious stomach rumbl...

Using Mindfulness In Recovery From Addictions And Eating Disorders with Dr. Rebecca Williams from 2019-09-24T10:00

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. Dr. Rebecca Williams, the co-author of a new book, The Gift of Recovery: 52 Mindful Ways to Live Joyfully Beyond Addictio...

Treating Guilt And Shame Resulting From Trauma with Dr. Carolyn Allard from 2019-09-09T10:00

Guilt and shame during or after traumatic experiences can make it difficult to recover from the pain of trauma. A reason for that is that unworthiness to feel better because of what a person fel...

Mom Hacks with Dr. Darria Gillespie from 2019-02-23T10:00

Taking the lessons she learned from her bout with arthritis plus the mentality that lets her feel competent in her work as an ER doctor, Dr. Darria Long Gillespie created a system so that she an...

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Fat Positivity, And The Perils Of Living In A Diet-Focused Culture with Julie Duffy Dillon from 2019-02-19T10:00

Noted dietician Julie Duffy Dillon discusses new and more holistic approaches to Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome using weight inclusive approaches. She also talks about weight stigma and how it cont...

Women’s Health And Fitness with Ali Watts from 2019-02-05T10:00

Ali Watts shares her own personal journey to health and fitness including what’s she’s learned about exercise and nutrition. She talks about empowering women to get fit and live the lives they t...

Mom Hacks: Science-Backed Shortcuts to Reclaim Your Body, Raise Awesome Kids, And Be Unstoppable with Dr. Darria Long Gillespie from 2018-12-18T10:00

Why is it generally accepted that motherhood comes at the expense of our health – with all that weight gain, fatigue, and exhaustion? It doesn’t have to be that way. What if your baby AND you co...

The Food – Mood Connection: How What We Eat Can Help Prevent And Treat Mental Health Issues with Kristin Kirkpatrick from 2018-12-05T10:00

Why is that what you eat is so important to our overall mental health? My guest, Kristin Kirkpatrick – President of KAK Consulting, LLC and a dietitian and consultant of Wellness Nutrition Servi...

Why Does Exercising Seem So Difficult? with Joey Atlas from 2018-11-25T10:00

Joey Atlas shares his struggles with food as a child and then later as an adult competitive bodybuilder. Teased about his weight as a child, he found that sports enabled him to get in better sha...

Overcoming Anxiety And Surviving Trauma with Matthew Pappas from 2018-11-10T10:00

Anxiety and survivor coach Matthew Pappas is a survivor of childhood trauma and, because of this, struggled with food, body image issues, and relationships throughout most of his life. A “light ...

The Power And Grace Of Women’s Spirituality with Mary Faulkner from 2018-11-05T10:00

The way we are in the world, not often do we find women as the subject of spirituality. Generally, spirituality came as more political in our past and has always been of men. Changing that and p...

Why We Burnout And How To Revive From It with Dr. Joan Borysenko from 2018-11-04T10:00

We are living in an age of information overload. There are just too many things that are served on our plate that we don’t know what to do anymore. We find ourselves, in the end, burning out. Dr...

Changing Realities Through Consciousness with Eva Herr from 2018-11-03T10:00

There is so much to healing that people have yet to explore. Eva Herr shares the role consciousness plays in that. Eva is a medical intuitive luminary, author, and radio host. She talks about th...

Misdiagnosing ADHD And ADHD Natural Remedies with Dr. Sanford Newmark from 2018-11-02T10:00

It is said that one in every ten children in America is diagnosed with ADHD. Going deeper into this finding is Dr. Sanford Newmark who talks about instances of misdiagnosis of ADHD to children b...

Kids Beyond The Limits Of Their Developmental Delays with Anat Baniel from 2018-11-01T10:00

Anat Baniel, clinical psychologist and founder of Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement®, talks about the work she does with children who have developmental delays, from autism and Asperger’s to bra...

Financial Vitality: Mastering Our Inner Game with T. Harv Eker from 2018-10-31T10:00

As much as we would like to hide it, there is this association between being rich and evil. There are so many negative things surrounding money that people fail to realize that you can actually ...

Changing Your Relationship With Food: Beyond The Potato Diet with Andrew Taylor from 2018-10-30T10:00

Known as the potato diet guy, Andrew Taylor tells us how he came up with the Spud Fit Challenge and the benefits he found with that. In 2016, he set off and went the entire year eating only pota...

The Partnership Between Intuition And Dreams with Dr. Marcia Emery from 2018-10-30T10:00

It has become easy to disregard the subject of dreams in our lives. Most of the time we forget about them. Dreams could actually reveal something much deeper about our lives. Dr. Marcia Emery, a...

Correcting Your Food Choices And Eating Habits with Tracy McCormick from 2018-10-29T10:00

The biggest misconception people have nowadays is that to be healthy means having to give up on eating delicious foods. Tracy McCormick, also known as Princess Know It All, believes otherwise. T...

Dr. James Greenblatt on The Effects Of Nutritional Deficiencies To Mental Illness And Disorders from 2018-10-28T10:00

There has been a lot of frustration among clinicians and even patients about the effectiveness of medications as the core treatment approach in psychiatry. In fact, recent research has shown tha...

Naturally Reversing Heart Disease with Dr. Decker Weiss from 2018-10-27T10:00

Much of the solutions in the medical world tend to focus on the treatment of the symptoms and not the underlying causes. Bringing his insights to that, particularly from a naturopathic physician...

Taking Down Obesity Myths with Dr. Linda Bacon from 2018-10-26T10:00

Much of what we think we know about our weight are actually false beliefs built on a number of stereotypes and ideas the society has created. In the midst of this, we live in a world where we us...

Healing Trauma And Addictions with Judy Crane from 2018-10-25T10:00

People who get into addictions and disorders often have events in the past that triggered them to get into this place. These are the traumas they encountered and Judy Crane points out its relati...

Shifting To Heart-Centered Goals Through Intuition with Amir Zoghi from 2018-10-24T10:00

Oftentimes, we find ourselves hating the things we do, yet we go on because it keeps us fed. The longer we stay, the more emptiness we feel. Amir Zoghi shares his own journey of shifting his goa...

Dr. Gabor Maté: How Mind-Body Unity Affects The Development Of Addiction from 2018-10-23T10:00

Taking a different perspective on addiction, Dr. Gabor Maté believes that addiction has a lot to do with how people experience life in their early years. He attributes it to the adversities one ...

Soulful Eating From A Love-Based Place with Isabelle Tierney from 2018-10-22T10:00

In order to become what the society dictates us to become, we tend to deprive ourselves with a lot of things. In terms of our body, we starve ourselves in order to look the ideal way. We don’t e...

The Zone Diet with Dr. Barry Sears from 2018-10-21T10:00

It is said that there are three things in life that are visceral; one is politics, second is religion, and third is nutrition. Diving deep into and covering the last one is Dr. Barry Sears. He i...

The Definitive Guide To Prostate Cancer with Dr. Aaron Katz from 2018-10-20T10:00

September is prostate cancer awareness month. One in every six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime. This affects not only the patients themselves but their families as wel...

Showing Up And Living Your Truth with Amir Zoghi from 2018-10-19T10:00

In this fast-paced day and age, it has become easy to forget living your truth. What we see is the reality we believed to be as the truth in our lives. We stop poking around ourselves thinking that...

How To Approach Childhood Obesity with Dr. Edward Abramson from 2018-10-18T10:00

Obesity is a big focus in America. Yet it is something that the country does not know how best to deal with, so we have a number of diets present for both adult obesity and childhood obesity. Contr...

The Benefits Of Mind-Body Therapy with Dr. Ralph Carson from 2018-10-17T10:00

Often overlooked in aiming for a healthy lifestyle is the mind/brain aspect. People tend to be more engrossed in the physical activities and transformation. Dr. Ralph Carson believes otherwise and ...

Overcoming Obesity Through A Healthy Lifestyle with Bree Boyce from 2018-10-16T10:00

Everyone has their own success stories with overcoming obesity, but not everyone goes through the same process and ends up with the same results. Bree Boyce, crowned Miss South Carolina in 2011, ta...

Mindsight: Awaken The Power Of Your Mind with Dr. Daniel Siegel from 2018-10-15T10:00

You can awaken the power of the mind through developing your mindsight. According to Dr. Daniel Siegel, co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center and executive director of the Mindsight ...

Food And Money, Why You May Be Binging On Both with Francine Rogers from 2018-10-05T10:00

For some people, their bad credit score and bad money habits didn't necessarily come from mismanaging money. Sometimes, it’s from an emotional dysfunctional neediness inside of them. The emotions t...