101: Five Steps to Recovery: #4 Creating New Core Beliefs
The Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross Show: Binge Eating Disorder, Stress Eating, Emotional Eating, Food AddictionShow Notes
Unconscious core beliefs can stand between you and your goal to put an end to your food, body image, and weight issues. When first formed, usually when you were younger and during times of transition, trauma, or emotional upheaval, core beliefs are solutions to problems you couldn't solve—perhaps because you didn't have the resources at the time. Research highlights the importance of addressing negative core beliefs; when they are not addressed, you may find it more difficult to stop unhealthy behaviors. Examples of core beliefs include: I'm not worthy, I'm not good enough and more. Negative core beliefs play an important role in the development and maintenance of the symptoms of food addiction, binge eating and emotional eating.
In this episode you will learn: What are core beliefs? How do core beliefs stand between you and what you desire most in your life? How can you change a negative core belief?
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