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.

Do you ever feel like the odd one out in your family? The one who seems to see issues more than others, and who is more affected by those issues?

Have you felt, or been judged to be, too sensitive?

A troublemaker? Too dramatic? Do you see patterns in your family that bother you?

These issues may indicate that you are a cycle-breaker in your family. A cycle-breaker is a person who is in the process of breaking generational patterns and trying to not carry on the same issues in their lives and to the next generation.

Sometimes these people are a scapegoat in the family. The easy one to blame. The one who feels ashamed because it appears they struggle more than others.

It's actually so good to be a cycle-breaker! It's good for you, it's good for your family, it's good for society. But families typically do NOT like the cycle-breaker.

Compulsive eating may be a way that you're trying to desensitize yourself to the issues in your family.

On one hand, perhaps you can see the value of being a cycle-breaker, but on the other hand you don't want to be. You're afraid.

You might want to somewhat numb out of the truth of your family and your childhood and the true issues. Food may be a way you try to keep some semblance of normalcy in your relationships with your family, attempting to curb conflict.

But this isn't good for you! And if you're the cycle-breaker in your family, you can't really numb out from it. You can try, but it will only hurt you.

Instead, have the courage to be the cycle-breaker! It will be hard, it will be painful, but it will also heal your overeating and more importantly, your life and your relationship with yourself.

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