Overcoming Emotional Eating – Details, episodes & analysis

If we do not work on all three levels -- body, feeling, mind -- the symptoms of our distress will keep returning, as the body goes on repeating the story stored in its cells until it is finally listened to and understood. -Alice Miller

These developmental stages of feeding and eating are really imperative if you're a parent of a young child, but also if you're if you have any issue with your food or your eating.

We have been already situated and pre-formatted by the age of five. We also know that there are stages in feeding and eating that radically impact the stages of feeding what happens to us later in life with food.

Stages of feeding:

• We know that between the ages of zero and one, we develop, a stage of feeding called trust versus mistrust.
• We've got ages 1 to 3, and this is the stage of autonomy, machine, and doubt.
• 2 to 5 initiative versus guilt.
• Ages 5 to 12. So now we're in kindergarten, we're in first grade, we're in second grade. And this is where we look at the stage called industry versus inferiority.
• Ages 12 to 18, we have identity versus role confusion.