Mind Power: How Memories & Behaviours Develop | @caroline-cavanagh | The Anxiety Alchemist

9 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Caroline Cavanagh explains how the brain links sweetness with comfort from infancy, when babies taste sweet milk while being held and soothed. This neurological pairing creates comfort food cravings that can later affect eating habits and weight loss.

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We start off by really setting the ground, talking about how the mind works, how memories are laid down, how behaviors develop. For example, with weight loss, I talk about how our eating behaviors start to be formed. The first experience we all have as newborns is the taste of something sweet in the mouth, whether that's breast milk or formula, it is actually very sweet, but at the time, being cosseted, being cuddled. So there is a deep neurological link between something sweet in the mouth and feeling nurtured. And the expression comfort food really does stem from that. And often when I explain this, that's the first time that someone went, oh yeah, never thought of it that way.