Grief and Emotional Eating: How Unresolved Loss Shows Up in Your Eating Habits (with Dawn Michele Jackson)

Eating Habits for Life · Oct 20, 2026 · 36m

Ever feel like your eating habits don’t make sense, even when you’re doing everything “right”? Unresolved grief could be the missing piece.

This week, I’m joined by Dawn Michele Jackson, Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist, to talk about the surprising link between grief and emotional eating.

Grief isn’t only about losing a loved one. Dawn shares the many ways it shows up in life, from divorce and other life and career changes, and why you may be carrying it without realizing it.

We dig into how grief affects your eating habits, why food becomes a way to cope, and why willpower can’t…