Dr Oz: Emotional Baggage
What’s your emotional baggage? Dr Oz had a special audience for a show about how we can break through our fears and anxieties. Expert Valorie Burton explained a four-step plan to help deal with emotional issues. Next, Dr Oz turned to the physical toll this can take on our bodies.
Dr Oz: Eating Your Feelings
Audience member Jennifer had a loaf of bread for Dr Oz, and she explained how bread made her feel safe and reminded her of her childhood and family. But she said that stress causes her to eat bread, which had led to a 50 pound weight gain in recent years.
“I just want to get to a place where I have a healthy, normal relationship with food,” Jennifer said.
Doctor Oz: Emotional Eating
Dr Oz helped women deal with their Emotional Eating habits & surprised the audience with a spa retreat.
Dr Oz said that food is very powerful in our lives, circumventing the brain and literally making us eat our feelings, as the cliche goes. He asked about what she feels when she craves or reaches for food.
Jennifer said she has heart palpitations and butterflies in her stomach. Bread makes her feelings immediately go away, and she feels great again until the guilt settles in.
Dr Oz said her description was great, and that the physical health toll emotional baggage can have is what made him so concerned about this topic.He went on to say that a lot of medical conditions or prescriptions can be traced back to causes from emotional baggage.
Dr Oz: Miraval Resort and Spa
But in addition to their emotional baggage, Dr Oz had his special audience pack a weekend’s worth of clothes, because he and Valorie were taking them to a special facility to help them work through their emotional problems.
Dr Oz said he was taking the women for a getaway at the Miraval Spa and Resort (so much for not mentioning brand names). The ladies packed onto a charter bus with Dr Oz and left the studio to climb on a plane.
Dr Oz & Miraval Resort
At breakfast the next morning, Dr Oz said part of the goal was getting people out of their familiar surroundings, which can exacerbate emotional baggage. He said the healing process would be emotionally and physically draining, and was designed to push everyone out of their comfort zones. (And if not, they would still get to keep their Dr Oz T-shirts, I’m guessing.)
Valorie Burton & Dr Oz: Catalyst for Change
Valorie Burton led the women on an outback hike through a desert trail. Dr Oz compared their journey to climbing a mountain. Things were already getting emotional, and one woman broke down over this opportunity, which she called a “catalyst for change.”
Later in the hike, Valorie was coaching climbers on the power of positive emotions. Meanwhile, Dr Oz talked with the woman whose boyfriend died in a car accident. He told her not to live in fear, and to accept that life is sometimes painful.
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