Too Much on Her Plate with Dr. Melissa McCreery Melissa McCreery

Let’s suppose that you know you’re an emotional eater. You’ve learned about emotional eating. You’ve spent time exploring your feelings. You can clearly see and describe the situations and feelings that trigger you to overeat. And all that insight hasn’t changed your eating habits at all.How do you break out of an emotional eating loop when focusing on your feelings hasn’t helped?In this episode:It’s not you, it’s that you’re missing some necessary steps for ending emotional eatingThe value o...

I propose that we work on cultivating a self-care mindset instead of a long self-care to-do list. In this episode, you’ll also find some self-caring ways to help make true self-care easier and more intuitive.In this episode:Understanding real self-care: the distinction between faux self-care and real self-care.Practical self-care strategies: a range of actionable suggestions to cultivate a self-care mindset, including untethering from external agendas, sprinkling joy into daily life, valuing ...

In this episode, I’m shining a light on how powerful myths contribute to guilt, self-blame, and a loss of hope in your ability to make lasting changes. I’m also sharing three key points for regaining hope and confidence and creating the changes you desire.In this episode:How diet mentality perpetuates a cycle of self-blame and may have disconnected you from your hope and confidence.Peace with food creates happiness and happiness creates peace with food.Should you just be happy with the way th...

Let’s tackle the challenge of emotional eating head-on. In this episode, I’m offering a specific plan centered around the powerful strategy of curiosity. I’ll explore how understanding the reasons behind emotional eating can empower you to regain control over your eating habits. By fostering curiosity rather than self-blame, you can uncover the underlying needs driving overeating and emotional eating and develop tailored strategies for healthier eating patterns. Through prompts and exercises,...

This week’s podcast episode is about a breathing technique that you can use to interrupt emotional eating, overeating, and even a binge. What does breathing have to do with ending overeating? A lot. If you’re an emotional eater or a stress eater or someone who overeats on autopilot, you know how frustrating it can be to try to change habits that feel deeply ingrained - even automatic. You’ve likely had experiences where, despite your best efforts or intentions, overeating habits have kicked i...

I don’t believe that you can heal your relationship with food or permanently change your eating in positive ways if you don’t address the emotional baggage of shame. So let’s talk about how to break the cycle of guilt, shame, and overeating.You’d have to be superhuman not to have internalized some or all of these beliefs and influences. This episode is about how to break the cycle.In this episode:The shame/guilt/overeating cycleGetting off the hamster wheelSelf-compassion and shameLetting hel...