When Food Fills the Emptiness and Weight Becomes Armor: Understanding Emotional Hunger
There is a moment many of us have experienced but rarely talk about: standing in front of the open refrigerator, not because we are physically hungry, but because we are trying to fill something else entirely. A void. A loneliness. An ache that has nothing to do with our stomach and everything to do with our heart. "Maybe that's why I've gained so much weight," a client once told me, her voice barely above a whisper. "I've been overeating to satiate emotional hunger." Her wor
The Mirror Effect: When Your Judgments Reveal Your Shadow
But when you leap from observation to character assassination—when you decide this person is vain, shallow, attention-seeking—and feel a surge of emotion about it, you have crossed into projection territory.
