Healing Emotional Eating: Be Proud of Your Courage

If you are embarking on healing the root causes of emotional eating, you are brave and courageous, no matter how messy it all looks and feels.

You're not too messy or too emotional, you are very brave and courageous.

So many of the people I work with feel the same way that I felt in the process of healing emotional eating, which is to have the tendency to worry that something is wrong with us; we are getting too emotional, this is too messy, and we wonder if we are unstable.

But the truth is, you're very brave. It takes incredible courage to do the work of healing the root causes of eating issues.

As you do this deep, soul-based work, it will start to look messier.

You will start to feel more emotional, and perhaps you'll feel like you're more reactive or more unstable.

But there is nothing wrong with you, and the process isn't going wrong if you feel this way. Additionally, you’re not actually really getting messier, you’re just unfreezing emotions that were there all along and coming out of denial about issues that were already present.

It's just that in our families and our society, most people hide their emotions, do not sincerely work through their compulsions and addictions, and pretend things are okay when they aren't.

You're delving into areas that most people aren't willing to, but if they were willing to, they would also appear to get messier and would become more emotional.

Nobody does true healing work and looks really stable and consistent and stoic while they do it. No one!

We mistake someone's facade for them doing well in life, we believe strong people hold their emotions at bay.

This is all terribly skewed, but it's probably what you're comparing yourself to and why you think you're crazy or weak.

Becoming more honest, even about our dark emotions, is brave. Delving into your childhood experiences and how they've impacted you is courageous. It is so admirable to embark on feeling repressed emotions instead of swallowing them with food.

You're not the unstable, messy, overly emotional one. You're the brave, courageous one!

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