It is the most beautiful real-life painting. And if you don’t pay attention, you miss it. Being embodied is taking in these paintings with all your senses—sight, smell, touch—but also with your complete and total absorption, as if you’re standing in an art museum studying every stroke of the artist’s brush. READ MORE...

We might think that hunger would sharpen our senses, making us more attuned to important emotional cues, but it’s the opposite- hunger seems to make our emotional radar less discriminating.

What causes binge eating? Early experiences of self-soothing impact how we cope today. If we didn’t experience adequate caregiver soothing or we experienced trauma, it can be difficult to find adaptive soothing mechanisms in adulthood. We teach ourselves how to self-soothe through a process of trial and error.