155. How to Stop Emotional Eating: The Tool You Didn't Know You Needed

About this episode

Kim Hynes and guest Mehek discuss the emotional aspects of eating and introduce the Kahani app as a tool for women to address their emotional eating patterns.

Why do so many smart, capable women feel completely out of control around food? This is why…if emotional eating were just about food, you would have solved it by now. In this honest and hopeful conversation, Kim sits down with Mehek, founder of the Kahani app, to talk about what so many women quietly live with every single day: food noise, binge eating, emotional eating, perfectionism, shame, overcontrol, and the exhausting feeling of "holding it together". This episode opens the door to a new way of dealing with disordered eating and emotional eating that is personal and works in your real life. This isn't another conversation about calories, macros, tracking apps, or trying harder. It's about finally understanding the emotional patterns, unmet needs, stress, pressure, past experiences, and nervous system responses that drive behaviors around food in the first place. Mehek shares the deeply personal story that inspired her to create Kahani, an AI-supported app designed to help women process emotions, interrupt destructive patterns, and feel supported in real time, especially during the moments when food becomes comfort, escape, numbness, or control. One of the most powerful…

People in this episode

Host: Kim Hynes

Guest: Mehek

Topics covered

• emotional eating
• disordered eating
• women's health
• mental health
• self-compassion
• AI technology

Keywords

• emotional eating
• binge eating
• food noise
• perfectionism
• shame
• stress
• nervous system
• Kahani app

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kahani

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