The EnvisionAir Podcast | Personal Wellness, Self Development and Growth Mindset · Nicole Ng Yuen

🍎 HEALTH: Overcoming Emotional Eating | Jolene Abercromby, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner

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Jolene says gaining weight became a way to stop unwanted attention after developing young.

1. The Envisionaire Podcast episode focuses on overcoming emotional eating with Jolene Abercrombie. 2. Nicole Nguyen hosts the conversation, and Jolene Abercrombie appears as a nutritional therapy practitioner who also hosts Holistic Health Made Easy. 3. The episode asks how people can tell the difference between hunger, habit, and emotional eating. 4. Jolene defines emotional eating as using food to deal with emotions, often through comfort foods rather than only junk food. 5. She says studies struggle to pinpoint a single cause and that emotional eating is often learned rather than explained by one chemical imbalance. 6. Jolene says emotional eating can begin in childhood, teenage years, or later after bullying or other uncomfortable experiences. 7. She describes being 10 or 11 years old, developing early, and getting attention she did not know how to handle. 8. Jolene says her family was conservative and that being different from the people around her shaped how she saw herself. 9. She explains that emotional eaters may not be unhappy, but they often feel different and turn to food for comfort. 10. Jolene says many emotional eaters eat alone as “closet eaters” so they can avoid being seen. 11. She says emotional eating can show up in people who look thin or healthy and still binge after a bad day or stressful event. 12. Jolene describes repeated cycles of losing weight, gaining it back, and realizing that attention, relationships, and discomfort were tied to those changes. 13. She recalls a fashion-industry moment when a fit model insulted her body and triggered old feelings about not fitting in. 14. Jolene says trigger foods matter because the same food can become linked to comfort, safety, or feeling better. 15. She distinguishes normal hunger from emotional hunger by asking whether a person can stop after a portion or keeps eating the whole box. 16. Jolene says hormones and gut health affect hunger signals, and dieting can damage those signals over time. 17. Her tone is direct and personal, with a lot of examples from her own life and client work. 18. The format stays interview-style, with Nicole asking practical follow-ups about triggers, hormones, and coping strategies. 19. People dealing with binge patterns, body-image stress, or food-related shame would likely benefit most. 20. Viewers looking for a quick diet plan or calorie-counting advice may skip it.

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