Episode 178

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25th Sep 2025

178: Carrying Other People's Emotions

When it comes to emotional eating, we often focus on our own feelings—identifying them, allowing them, and finding healthier ways to respond. But what about the emotions we pick up from others?

In this episode of Lose Your Cravings, Keysa dives into the overlooked role of carrying other people’s stress, anger, guilt, and disappointment—and how taking on emotions that aren’t yours can quietly fuel cravings, overeating, and the cycle of emotional eating.

Through compassionate insight, real-life examples, and a calming guided practice, you’ll learn how to:

  • Recognize when you’re absorbing emotions that don’t belong to you
  • Understand why this often leads to anxiety, guilt, and food cravings
  • Use powerful phrases like “This is not mine to carry” and “Two things can be true” to set boundaries with compassion
  • Explore reflective questions and journaling prompts that support food freedom and self-awareness
  • Practice a short grounding exercise to release emotional weight in the moment

If you’ve ever felt like you’re eating to soothe feelings that aren’t even yours, this episode will help you build emotional resilience, create healthy boundaries, and find a calmer, non-diet path toward your relationship with food.

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About the Podcast

Lose Your Cravings Podcast with Keysa Amaro
Taking a mindful approach to reducing your cravings
The Lose Your Cravings Podcast...Taking a mindful approach to a reducing your cravings for good!

If you are joining me, then you are probably suffering and struggling with cravings. You have tried everything out there. Every diet, every pill, every shake, every workout program which leaves you in a yo-yo dieting cycle with your weight fluctuating. You lose some weight but are SO deprived and you run out of willpower, so you end up overeating or binging on the very delicious foods that you were supposed to be staying away from.

In this podcast, I take a different approach to cravings that will help you break free from this cycle, feel in control around food, reduce your cravings, and feel amazing in your body all without feeling deprived or having to follow a strict meal plan.

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Keysa Amaro

Keysa Amaro helps ambitious women transform their obsession with weight and body image into body confidence so they can show up fully in their lives without fear of being seen.