Episode 13: Anxiety Eating: When Your Nervous System Won’t Let You Stop A Glow & Flow Holistics and Glow & Flow Radio Episode

Anxiety eating isn’t about willpower; it’s about a nervous system that’s overwhelmed and searching for relief.

In this episode of Glow & Flow Radio, we explore what happens when anxiety takes over your body before your mind has a chance to catch up. The kind of eating that feels urgent, frantic, and hard to stop. The kind where food becomes the fastest way to quiet a racing heart, a tight chest, or buzzing thoughts.

You’ll learn how anxiety eating differs from other forms of emotional eating, why anxiety drives cravings for specific comfort foods, and how the anxiety-eating-shame loop keeps you stuck. We unpack how restriction and diet culture actually increase anxiety, making these patterns stronger, not better.

This episode focuses on nervous system regulation, not food control. You’ll be guided through practical, compassionate tools you can use before, during, and after anxiety eating, including grounding techniques, breathwork, movement, and intentional comfort, all without shame or pressure to “fix” yourself.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What anxiety eating really is from a nervous system perspective

• Why anxiety creates urgent cravings and mindless eating

• How shame fuels the anxiety-eating cycle

• The difference between eating from anxiety and eating to calm

• Practical tools to regulate your nervous system with compassion

• When and why additional support may be helpful

This episode is for anyone who has ever asked, “Why can’t I stop?” The answer isn’t failure; it’s survival.

You’re not broken. Your body is trying to protect you. And you deserve more options for feeling safe.

Glow & Flow Radio, where healing replaces shame, and compassion leads the way.

Resource: Instead of Eating, I Can… Your Emotional Eating Alternative Toolkit available at: https://shop.beacons.ai/glowandflowholistics/d929eedd-c697-48f0-89b4-4535263341ad