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Learn About Your Overeating at Holidays with Family
During the holidays with your family, you can learn a great deal about your compulsive eating by tuning into yourself emotionally when you’re around them.
Nervous System Regulation and Overeating
What is the link between “nervous system regulation” and healing overeating? Is it necessary to do these regulation practices? Which ones are best and why? This blog discusses these topics.
Holidays And How I’m Estranged From Family
The holiday season brings up a lot of emotions about family for me, as it does for many who come from dysfunctional or abusive families. I’ve been estranged from most of my family for years.
“I Can’t Have Joy, But I Can Have Chocolate”
You are good enough for love, you can heal the reasons you don't have comfort, and you can find joy again. But it doesn't feel like that, when we're in this space.
When Parents Enjoy Body-Shaming Their Child
Some parents have such dark feelings that actually love the power, control and superiority that they can have by shaming their child who overeats. It has to be said, because in some cases this is true, and it's vital to work through it if it is the case for you.
Healing Food Addiction: What is Really Possible?
It is possible for you to fully heal your overeating, no matter how severe it is or how long you've been doing it. It might seem far off or even completely impossible to imagine not having it, but truly, here are some of the possibilities that are there for you.
When My Mom Padlocked Food From Me
My mom locked food away from me with a padlocked refrigerator when I was a teenager.
You Can Learn to Listen to Your Body’s Signals
At first, learning to eat based on your body’s signals can feel like painting with a blindfold on. However, it is a type of sensitivity and a skill that you can learn.
Your Thoughts Don’t Create Compulsive Eating.
Your thoughts don’t create compulsive eating. Your desire to deny and suppress emotions does. Don’t worry about your thoughts; they are a product of your emotions. I used to be so worried about my thoughts. If they were "negative", wouldn't that create compulsive eating?
How Can I Expect to Physically Feel on a Juice Feast?
How can I expect to physically feel on a Juice Feast? There are many factors which will affect how you feel on a juice cleanse, and not everyone's experience is the same. Here are some main factors which will determine how you feel.
Why Changing Eating Without Emotions is Pointless
Trying to change habits without examining them emotionally is pretty pointless because it won’t last. However, experimenting with changing the behaviors you’re drawn to and feeling about them emotionally can produce lasting change.
Our Eating “Habits” Are Emotionally-Driven
Do you feel like your food choices have just become a habit? Just a thing you do because, well, it’s familiar now? In this blog post I share what’s really going on with our eating habits.
Healing Compulsive Eating: What Are Cravings, Really?
How can you know if a craving for a particular food is a desire coming from the physical body, or a desire coming from you emotionally, which may actually be a compulsive, addictive feeling?
Why Fruit Juice Isn’t The Same As Soda
Have you heard it said that drinking fruit juice is basically the same as drinking soda? Here's why the truth is more nuanced and why in many ways, it's not true!
“My Parents Did Their Best” Will Prevent Healing
Telling yourself that your parents did the best they could have will prevent you from healing compulsive eating. The true causes of our relationship with food originate in our childhood experience.
Why Do You Believe You Can’t Heal Food Addiction?
Do you believe the human soul can be broken beyond repair? If not, why do you believe you can’t heal food addiction? In fact, you can. Your soul isn’t forever broken.
Don’t Compare Yourself to People Who Seem “Together”
Do you think to yourself, "Why do I have all these messy emotions that other people don't seem to have?" This is a common thing my clients say to me when we start getting under the skin of their compulsive eating.
How I Unfroze Emotionally and Healed Binge Eating
When I began researching compulsive eating and first discovered the idea that the way to heal is to feel suppressed emotions, I was very shut down.
If You Didn’t Overeat Until Adulthood
While it is common for people with overeating issues to have started young, it is also just as common for the overeating to not have started until a person was a teenager, an adult, or even well into adulthood. Here’s why this happens.
Compulsive Eating and Being a Cycle-Breaker
Your compulsive eating may indicate that you’re a cycle-breaker in your family, but you’re trying to avoid stepping into that, and food is how you numb out from the truth.