Holly Bertone spent 13 years as chief of staff for FBI counterintelligence until this work began to affect her health profoundly. In the years that followed, she realized that the exact skills she'd used to track patterns and spot threats in her role at the FBI were the missing piece to gain an understanding of something much more personal: her own relationship with food.

In this episode, we get into what emotional eating actually is, why it's not a willpower or calorie problem but a nervous system one, and why trying to fix a fast, automatic, emotional response with logic and meal plans rarely works. Holly breaks down her framework for spotting the patterns, interrupting them, and eventually shifting them into an identity where the healthy choice stops requiring a fight at all.

We talk about the shame that keeps this struggle hidden, why naming a pattern is the first real act of power over it, and the mantra that's carried Holly through putting herself out there publicly: every insult is a confession, and it says more about the person saying it than it does about you.

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