Aug 27, 2026 · 48 min · 12 segments
Welcome to How Humans Heal. In this episode, I'm joined by Tricia Nelson, an emotional eating expert and the best-selling author of Heal Your Hunger: 7 Simple Steps to End Emotional Eating Now. Tricia…
Tricia NelsonGuestDoni WilsonHost
And I will often say, and it's in my book as well, that there's a personality profile of emotional eaters.
So we think about emotional eating as having to do with eating, but it also has to do with how we process stress.
And that is because of the personality profile that emotional eaters often have.
Like I'd say, most emotional eaters have at least some of the 24 personality traits of the, I call it the anatomy of the emotional eater.
So it's a personality profile and there's many different traits and these traits have nothing to do with eating, okay? But they have everything to do with why we end up eating.
The top trait of the anatomy of the emotional eater, the top of all 24 traits is people pleasing, okay? So we as emotional eaters take the cake on this, pardon the pun.
So caretaking is also a trait, but the people pleasing is really top of the list because we, We are always seeking something outside of ourselves, like validation, approval, attagirls, you know, these kinds of things sort of baked into our personality to want that outside approval.
We were lacking sorely in, you know, this kind of positive reinforcement in our childhood, but we're not going to play the blame game.
I would overcommit, I'd be overscheduled, then I'd be overwhelmed, and then I'd overeat.
And I will often say, and it's in my book as well, that there's a personality profile of emotional eaters.
So we think about emotional eating as having to do with eating, but it also has to do with how we process stress.
And that is because of the personality profile that emotional eaters often have.
Like I'd say, most emotional eaters have at least some of the 24 personality traits of the, I call it the anatomy of the emotional eater.
So it's a personality profile and there's many different traits and these traits have nothing to do with eating, okay? But they have everything to do with why we end up eating.
The top trait of the anatomy of the emotional eater, the top of all 24 traits is people pleasing, okay? So we as emotional eaters take the cake on this, pardon the pun.
So caretaking is also a trait, but the people pleasing is really top of the list because we, We are always seeking something outside of ourselves, like validation, approval, attagirls, you know, these kinds of things sort of baked into our personality to want that outside approval.
We were lacking sorely in, you know, this kind of positive reinforcement in our childhood, but we're not going to play the blame game.
I would overcommit, I'd be overscheduled, then I'd be overwhelmed, and then I'd overeat.
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