Compassionate Conversations

How to Break Free of Food Addiction: Clarissa Kennedy and Molly Painschab of Sweet Sobriety

March 22, 2023 Esther Kane, MSW, RSW, RCC Season 2 Episode 12
Compassionate Conversations
How to Break Free of Food Addiction: Clarissa Kennedy and Molly Painschab of Sweet Sobriety
Show Notes

Are you a food addict? Do you need some simple and practical tools to break free?  Watch this video where Eating Disorders Therapist, Esther Kane interviews Clarissa Kennedy and Molly Painschab of Sweet Sobriety. They take a deep dive into how to break free of food addiction for good. 

Episode Contents:

0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro
0:24 Body Image Series Intro
2:44 Introducing Clarissa and Molly
4:20 Molly's personal story with food addiction 
14:28 Clarissa's personal story with food addiction 
29:00 Their focus on highly processed foods as addictive
38:14 Using a harm reduction approach to FA
39:00 Why food addiction recovery is so tricky
41:36 Sugar addiction
48:20 Assessing food addiction and practical steps to begin recovery

Research Study mentioned:

“Low carbohydrate and psychoeducational programs show promise for the treatment of ultra-processed food addiction”

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1005523/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field&journalName=Frontiers_in_Psychiatry&id=1005523&fbclid=IwAR0y-Dei1QFMPoIs_WjYvQqcOGxMwYJehDRQNmfkcGeVRDDC0BJmQL6tb9o

How to connect with Molly and Clarissa
https://www.sweetsobriety.ca

Food Junkies Podcast:
https://www.foodjunkiespodcast.com

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