A friend asks: About 2 years ago, I gave up my heavy diet pepsi habit. I’ve moved off of most processed foods, so nowadays, the majority of my non-fruit sugar intake comes from baked goods, and the sugar I put into my cups ‘o tea. So, I recently read about Stevia, plant-extract based sweetener, that,…
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Dr. Kerrie Saunders, MS, LLP, PhD, started life by almost dying of a food allergy, and that experience set her on the exploration of food, emotions, addictions, cravings, and healing that has become her passion and her career.
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Susan Peirce Thompson knows something about addiction. Starting at age 14, she lurched from addiction to addiction, finally getting clean and sober at age 20. Years later, in grad school, she had become obese, and found that she was powerless to control – or even understand – her cravings and binges.
Unlike drugs, food was a must-have; she couldn’t simply abstain. When she discovered a method that had been refined, trial-and-error fashion, by food addicts in the 12-step community, she jumped on board and quickly went from size 16 to size 4.
Susan is now a tenured psychology professor with a PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and teaches a college course on the psychology of eating.
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When Sharon Livingston was a kid, her parents were kosher caterers and she had to watch them nourish the world while, often, ignoring her. She doubled her weight between ages 9 and 12, and had to deal with being “the fat girl” all through high school.
These and other experiences and her long road of healing from them, along with her decades of study and practice of psychology, have made her a expert on emotional eating, or as she puts it, “when food becomes a four-letter word.”
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