Are You Overfeeding Your Starving Soul?

Rather than overfeeding your starving soul, you can explore as to why your soul feels so desperate in the first place.

Your stomach may be full — way too full — but your soul might be starving.

Compulsive eating is all about our souls, not about our minds or our bodies.

Stuffing ourselves with food is an emotion-driven compulsion that can have its origins in the fact that on a soul level, we feel we're starving.

This is why we can do diet after detox after fad after program and nothing really changes: because there will never be enough food to satisfy a starving soul.

We also will not be able to successfully force ourselves to stop overeating while our soul is still starving. The solution isn't to just stay starving and force yourself into submission.

Instead, we need to look way deeper into things and explore the question of, "Why is my soul starving in the first place?"

Chances are, it's been starving since your childhood.

Now, it's time to ask why.

What happened that caused you to have these emotional holes in you?

What in your childhood made you feel starved of love?

What in your childhood was based on lies, and not on truth and honesty?

What in your childhood created your disconnect from yourself emotionally?

Then, we need to feel. We need to feel the buried emotions of anger, fear, and sadness.

The answer is not to find another person or activity or addiction to fill these holes. Instead we need to grieve the starvation that happened and feel how it feels.

This process will actually patch up the holes around love, truth and emotion.

Additionally, if you allow God's feelings about you to flow in, this has a huge effect of finally feeding the starving soul.

When your soul begins to heal from its lifelong starvation, to patch up the wounds in it, you will naturally be less drawn to overeating.

You won't even have to try; you just won't feel like doing it.

The best resource I've come across for healing compulsions and our souls is the Divine Truth material; I recommend looking into it further: www.DivineTruth.com. It's where I've learned most of what I know!

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