# 173 ~ Comforting, Rewarding, Coping

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Podcast: [Disrupting Obesity](https://stenobird.com/podcast/disrupting-obesity-6367206)
Published: 2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00
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Send us Fan Mail Emotional eating gets talked about a lot but not in a way that actually helps you understand or manage it. In this episode, I’m breaking emotional eating down into three core drivers: comfort, reward, and cope and once you see it through this lens, everything starts to make a lot more sense. This is not about trying to “fix” emotional eating or eliminate it completely. That’s not realistic and it’s not the goal. This is about learning how to work with it instead of feeling...

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