Conversations Live With Vicki St. Clair

May 14: Julie M. Simon’s When Food is Comfort & Sunny McMillan’s Unhitched Ice Cream. Mac and cheese. For the more gluttonous among us, pizza. Many of us turn to these comfort foods when life takes one of its downward spirals. When Food is Comfort: Nurture Yourself Mindfully, Rewire Your Brain, and End Emotional Eating reveals a lack of consistent nurturing at a young age can cause us to turn to outside substances such as food to receive that needed stress relief. Author Julie M. Simon offers easily mastered skills to put an end to unhealthy indulging through self-nurturing and rewiring our brains. Julie is a licensed psychotherapist and Life Coach with a full-time private practice specializing in eating and body image challenges. She founded the popular Los Angeles based online Twelve-Week Emotional Eating Recovery Program and offers workshops at venues like Whole Foods and UCLA. Later, by their nature, separation and divorce are unpleasant and stressful experiences, but they don’t have to