Emotional Eating

There is a hunger that does not begin in the stomach.

It arrives after an argument, after a long day, after a night that was too quiet, and it asks for something sweet, something salty, something intense. This is not a failure of willpower. Emotional eating is a learned response to an emptiness that does not yet have a name.

This book works through fifty short chapters and holds two perspectives open in every one of them. Psychology describes what can be observed. Spirituality asks what it means. Neither takes the place of the other, and what is interpretation is never presented as fact.

Every chapter follows the same structure:

• a brief explanation from psychology
• a spiritual reading of the same theme
• a meeting point between the two
• concrete examples from everyday life
• questions for self-recognition
• a regulation practice you can do today
• a closing thought to take with you

What it covers: stress eating after an exhausting day, comfort eating at night, eating when you are not hungry, food guilt and shame, cravings and compulsive overeating, binge eating and what comes before it, digital stimulation and appetite, relationships that nourish and relationships that drain, rebuilding a healthy relationship with food.

It does not promise to remove the impulse. It teaches you to know it well enough to stop obeying it automatically.

Written by Emily Lima López, clinical psychologist, with fifty original illustrations and room to write.

This book is intended for education and self-knowledge. It does not constitute diagnosis, psychotherapy or medical treatment.