Stress Relief For Stress Eating and Emotional Eating

Is Stress Eating An Addiction?

All addictive processes represent an effort to control feelings.

Even more than that, they represent an effort to keep life itself under control.

Addicts are hooked on things being one certain way (the way they “should” be), and are unable to just let things “be” to take their natural course.

Addiction is a response to resisting life’s natural course, and consistently wanting things to be better, or at least different than they are now. In that way, addiction represents a spiritual and emotional hunger, cutting us off from others who might be able to help.

Needless to say, it’s much easier to focus on trying to control a voracious appetite than to control the twists and turns of a life you didn’t expect, or to feel the emptiness or the terror and helplessness of the bad things that could potentially happen.

That’s why one addiction is often interchangeable with the next. Shedding one bad habit only leads to another – stop stress eating, take up overspending, revive an unhealthy relationship (of any kind) and/or become consumed with your to-do list. [Read the full stress eating article…]

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