232. Stop Icing The Knee: How Misdiagnosing Wounds Fuels Emotional Eating

What if the reason your tools “aren’t working” anymore… isn’t because you’re broken—but because you’re treating the wrong wound?

In this deeply personal solo episode, Kayla explores one of the most common and painful reasons emotional eating, burnout, and self-sabotage can persist even after years of mindset work, nervous system regulation, and healing practices: misdiagnosis.

Using the metaphor of icing the knee when the shoulder is dislocated, this episode unpacks how safety tools can actually increase emotional eating when the core wound isn’t about danger—but about love, belonging, power, trust, or acceptance.

You’ll hear:

• Why high-performing, Type A women often get stuck after doing “all the right work”
• How safety wounds and love/attachment wounds feel different in the body
• Why calming yourself down can make things worse when what you actually need is to be met
• How emotional eating becomes a stand-in for unmet love and care
• What changes when you stop trying to earn love—from yourself, from others, or from an algorithm

Kayla also shares vulnerably about social media, medium mismatch, attachment wounds, and how putting conditions on love—internally and externally—quietly erodes self-trust.

If you’ve ever thought:

• “I feel calmer, but I’m still sad”
• “I’ve done so much healing… why do I still ache?”
• “Food is the only thing that gives relief right now”

This episode will help you stop icing the knee—and finally tend to the wound that’s actually asking for care.

Links Mentioned

• Previous Episode: Food Is Not Love & The Algorithm Is Not Your Daddy
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