Food Quote by Brooke Castillo
““When my clients stop overeating they are typically bombarded with negative emotion. Their knee jerk reaction after years of practice is to fight the emotion, escape the emotion, or bury the emotion. Picking up more food is a way to escape the emotion temporarily. BUT if we are willing—and many of us are—to RELAX INTO THE EMOTION and feel it deeply, we can watch it pass through us. Eventually, as we get better at experiencing the truth of our emotional state, we can find the thought that is causing the feeling””
About This Quote
The passage advises moving from resisting uncomfortable emotions to fully feeling them, allowing underlying thoughts to surface and reducing reliance on food as a coping mechanism.
In simple terms: Encourages feeling emotions fully to uncover underlying thoughts, reducing emotional eating.
Key Takeaway
Practice emotional acceptance to break unhealthy habits.
Themes
emotional health
mindfulness
self‑awareness
eating behavior
Mood
calm
reflective
Type
therapeutic
motivational
When to use this quote
- therapy
- mindful eating
- stress management
- personal coaching
Key Concepts
psychology
behavioral change
mind‑body connection
Questions to Reflect On
- How can you safely explore intense emotions?
- What alternatives replace emotional eating?
A Different Perspective
Some may find deep emotional immersion overwhelming.
![“Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]” quote by Agatha Christie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/326/agatha-christie-154_doe_ah-but-life-is-like-that-it-does-not-per_875797.jpg)
![“The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, by former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler,[34] shows that foods high in fat, salt and sugar alter the brain’s chemistry in ways that compel people to overeat.” quote by Paige Singleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/408/paige-singleton-37653_appetite_the-end-of-overeating-taking-control-of_132311.jpg)
![“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once, for example, when I was just starting out in the food business, I was hired by the caper people to develop a lot of recipes using capers, and it was weeks of…” quote by Nora Ephron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d79/nora-ephron-1217_business_s-ometimes-when-you-are-a-food-person-th_980.jpg)
