Grief and Binge Eating

You’re afraid if you start feeling sadness that you’ll drown in it, but the truth is, grieving will heal your binge eating.

We are afraid that our sadness will swallow us if we start feeling it. We're afraid it will create depression. We think that if we open that floodgate, we will drown in it.

But these are fears that are not actually true.

Feeling sadness does not drown us. Rather it is all the things we do to avoid feeling our sadness, which can drown us.

Indeed, the things we do to avoid feeling grief can destroy our lives and even kill us.

Really allowing our grief is completely different to depression.

I know this from personal experience as well: I was diagnosed with severe depression when I was a teenager and I struggled with that for years.

Depression happens when we repress sadness (and typically other emotions including anger and fear) and when we are using all our might to control how much of it we actually feel.

Surrendering to grief is different. When you surrender, you give up all control and intellectual analysis and you just let your grief flow, unencumbered, out of your soul. Indeed, like a dam breaking.

But you don't drown, and you don't die.

It's an acute pain that is entirely different to the dull ache of depression.

When we grieve, we are connected to ourselves emotionally, even though we're in pain. When we're depressed, we're disconnected from ourselves emotionally.

On the other side of your crying, you will gradually find you feel more peaceful. Relaxed. At peace. Relieved. Happier. Significantly less depressed.

And less compulsive with food.

You'll start to have experiences where you feel like overeating, but then you instead let yourself have a cry, and then immediately afterwards no longer feel compulsive with food.

Crying will heal your soul, and it is good for you. Crying and grieving will heal your relationship with food.

As I've mentioned before, the best resource I've found for how to feel emotions is the Divine Truth material. You can find it by searching Divine Truth on YouTube or go to www.DivineTruth.com

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