It’s 9pm. The day was hard — long, frustrating, or just quietly relentless in the way some days are. And somehow you’re standing in the kitchen eating crackers directly from the box, not because you’re hungry, but because something in you just needed to. Sound familiar? If it does, I want to say something clearly before we go any further: there is nothing wrong with you. Stress eating isn’t a character flaw, a lack of willpower, or evidence that you have a “bad relationship” with food. It’s a deeply human response to a hard day — one that’s been wired into us for reasons that made a lot of sense,…