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How to Break Free of Food Addiction: Clarissa Kennedy and Molly Painschab of Sweet Sobriety

How to Break Free of Food Addiction: Clarissa Kennedy and Molly Painschab of Sweet Sobriety

6 April 2023 by

Are you a food addict? Do you need some simple and practical tools to break free? Watch this video where Eating Disorders Therapist, Esther Kane interviews Clarissa Kennedy and Molly Painschab of Sweet Sobriety. They take a deep dive into how to break free of food addiction for good.

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Episode Contents:

0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro
0:24 Body Image Series Intro
2:44 Introducing Clarissa and Molly
4:20 Molly’s personal story with food addiction
14:28 Clarissa’s personal story with food addiction
29:00 Their focus on highly processed foods as addictive
38:14 Using a harm reduction approach to FA
39:00 Why food addiction recovery is so tricky
41:36 Sugar addiction
48:20 Assessing food addiction and practical steps to begin recovery

Show notes:

Research Study mentioned: “Low carbohydrate and psychoeducational programs show promise for the treatment of ultra-processed food addiction”

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