Gluttony vs Temperance: Desire, Excess & Self-Regulation
What happens when desire stops being healthy enjoyment and becomes compulsion, overconsumption, or emotional avoidance?
In this episode of the Spirit Sherpa podcast and the 7 Deadly Sins and Virtues series, we explore gluttony and temperance through the lenses of emotional regulation, desire, excess, and conscious self-management.
For spiritual entrepreneurs and transformational practitioners, gluttony is not limited to food. It can appear as emotional consumption, distraction, overstimulation, compulsive behavior, spiritual overconsumption, or the inability to tolerate emptiness and discomfort.
You’ll learn:
- Why gluttony is fundamentally about dysregulated desire
- The relationship between emotional avoidance and overconsumption
- How temperance supports nervous system regulation and discernment
- The difference between healthy pleasure and compulsive excess
This conversation is especially relevant for practitioners exploring emotional intelligence, transformational psychology, discernment, and transformational mastery.
Because freedom is not the absence of limits—it’s the ability to relate to desire consciously.
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