Mind Full of Eating "If you eat less you'll feel better," is a common piece of advice well-meaning friends and family give to people struggling with overeating. Their meaning is that the aforesaid individual will feel more healthy by improving their food choices. But to the food dependent individual, overeating has become a management strategy to manage distress experiences and "feel better." Mindful Eating is a popular approach in psychology and counseling to help people move to a more intentional way of nourishing their bodies. However, to transition to this concept, skills and strategies must be developed to get people away from a "Mind Full of Eating." Like other dependencies, food addiction develops over a period of time when people turn to eating to manage distressful emotions that can occur through everyday experiences and relationships. As a result, the body's natural mechanisms for controlling food intake become damaged and physio