Emotional coaching is a process that is used to help people to resolve conflicting emotions thereby increasing their level of emotional clarity, awareness and intelligence.

As repeatedly emphasized throughout this site, the underlying causes of binge eating are unresolved emotional conflicts. Our most immediate interpretation of these conflicts is simply feeling bad. And when we can't take it anymore we resort to binge eating.

The good news is that with the right approach it is possible to gain insight from our painful feelings and through it gain freedom from them. It is really that simple. Knowing how we feel, instead of being conflicted about it, gives us clarity about our thoughts and feelings and those of others. Emotional clarity enables us to persist on our chosen course in life and to overcome any set backs without resorting to emotional eating.

The concept of emotional intelligence is now getting wide recognition as a key factor to success in life.

Emotional intelligence is defined as: the ability to perceive emotions, to access and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotional knowledge, and to reflectively regulate emotions so as to promote emotional and intellectual growth.

When we don't understand how we feel, we don't know what to do. And it is during these times that the temptation to engage in an unproductive behaviour, such as binge eating, asserts itself. Being unable to rise above our emotions, through understanding them, we opt for numbing our feelings.

Our fundamental challenges in life are of emotional nature. Whether it's a personal loss, a conflict or chronic stress, these challenges are primarily composed of painful feelings. Unresolved, they attract more negativity and as a result paint a very bleak picture of life for us.

When life looks too bleak, we try to dull our feelings through binge eating. The effects of our binge eating efforts are temporary, and we continue to engage in binge eating with increasing frequency.

The spiral of more psychological pain and more binging continues until we arrive to a point where binge eating barely neutralizes the never ending pain. At this point we loose all all hope for happiness.

Surprisingly, this outcome is very much like the outcome experienced by people addicted to drugs. They get to a point where they look toward the next fix as the only highlight of their existence, yet the promise of permanent relief never materializes.

This low point does not have to be reached in order for us to reverse our emotional course. With emotional coaching you can learn to understand your feelings and thereby free yourself from their negative influences. Almost literally, negative feelings evaporate as soon as they are understood. And to the degree that emotional understanding increases, the need to binge diminishes.

As your emotional coach I would like to share with you an overview of the basic principles that we will be using in our coaching sessions as well their real time online format. This information is contained on the next page.