What if your "willpower problem" with food was never about food at all? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Amber Romaniuk, an emotional eating, digestive, and hormone expert with 12+ years of experience. Amber shares the childhood roots of emotional eating, the intense turning point that forced her to face her own binge-restriction patterns, and the multidimensional healing path that led to true body freedom. This episode explores why feeling emotions can feel unsafe and how to create real nervous system safety.

What You Will Learn:

A clear understanding of how childhood moments can become identity wounds that drive emotional eating for decades.

Language for naming the difference between discomfort and being unsafe, so emotions stop feeling like an emergency.

A simple way to work with the brain's threat response without letting it run your life.

A practical starting point for emotion work: set a timer for 30 seconds and build capacity gradually.

Why food becomes a regulator when life feels helpless, out of control, or emotionally unsupported.

Insight into how the binge–restriction cycle can intensify after weight loss, breakups, and "perfect body" beliefs.

A realistic picture of what root-cause healing actually involves: mental, emotional, behavioral, energetic, spiritual, and physical layers.

Tools that help create safety while feeling emotions, including breathwork, EFT tapping, self-holding, music, and affirmations.

Why chronic stress and fight-or-flight make it harder to heal digestion, blood sugar, and hormones.

A grounded approach to "breaking the lineage" by combining inner healing with loving boundaries when family dynamics push back.

Why progress requires structures that support "doing the reps," not just inspiration or insight.

How long-term support helps women stay consistent when real life hits.

Why new success can trigger fear and how identity work helps you maintain change without self-sabotage.

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