The Breakthrough Emotional Eating Podcast

About The Breakthrough Emotional Eating Podcast

The Breakthrough Emotional Eating Podcast helps individuals address and manage all aspects of emotional eating and weight loss through understanding why it happens, how to recognize and stop it, and realizing that changing the body only happens after you have changed the mind. Restrictive diets and depriving yourself of foods you love is not the answer, and Breakthrough shows you there is another way to address this deeper issue. Listeners will learn practical tips and strategies that will guide them towards a healthy relationship with food, and with themselves. Kristin Jones is a certified life coach and fitness instructor specializing in helping women break free from emotional eating and overeating. With over 17 years of experience in education, she understands the challenges of balancing a demanding career with personal well-being. Having personally struggled with an eating disorder, she brings a unique perspective and empathy to her coaching work. Through her signature program, Breakthrough Emotional Eating, Kristin combines the power of Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) with practical tools and strategies to help clients cultivate a healthy relationship with food, and themselves. By addressing underlying emotional issues and limiting beliefs, she empowers women to find freedom, self-love, and lasting transformation. In addition to being a certified yoga and fitness instructor at Life Time in Walnut Creek, CA, she also hosts a podcast, Breakthrough Emotional Eating, has a YouTube channel, Kristin Jones Coaching, and is the author of the Amazon best-selling book, When Food Is Your Drug: A Food Addict's Guide To Managing Emotional Eating.

Publisher

Kristin Jones

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Jul 2020

Latest episode

15 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

165 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Jul 2026

   BEE #163: Why Weight Loss Fails Without Emotional Work

   Message me with comments or questions You're not at the fridge because you lack discipline. You're there because something hurts, feels heavy, or feels unfinished, and food is the fastest way to change how you feel. In this episode of the Breakthrough Emotional Eating Podcast, I break down why diets work short term and fail long term, why that's a program design problem rather than a willpower problem, and the T Cycle I teach clients: thoughts create emotions, emotions drive actions, an...

2. 

   30 Jun 2026

   BEE #162: How Falling Estrogen in Perimenopause Fuels Emotional Eating

   Message me with comments or questions Your brain is working against you — and perimenopause is why. When estrogen and progesterone start shifting, they don't just change your body. They rewire the way your brain handles mood, stress, cravings, and sleep — and that can pour gasoline on emotional eating. This isn't a willpower problem. It's biology. In this episode, I break down exactly what's happening inside your brain and body during perimenopause and menopause — so you can finally stop blam...

3. 

   22 Apr 2026

   BEE #161: Why Food Obsession Is NOT The Real Problem

   Message me with comments or questions If you can follow the meal plan for a couple of days and then suddenly feel like everything unravels, this episode is for you. So many women think the problem is a lack of discipline, but that is rarely the full story. In this episode of the Breakthrough Emotional Eating podcast, I discuss the deeper issue underneath the all-or-nothing cycle with food: the loss of self-trust that gets built over years of chronic dieting, pressure, restriction, and harsh f...

Who has been a guest on The Breakthrough Emotional Eating Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Sebastian Lim
• Dr Peter Castillo
• Evelyn Franklin

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

21,345

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

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Quality

57

Social presence

91

YouTube

76

Engagement

0