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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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Who Benefits From Your Confusion About Overeating?
Who in your life would prefer that you didn’t figure out the true causes of your compulsive eating? Who benefits from your unawareness, confusion and self-blame?
Your Broken Heart and Your Food Addiction
All those who struggle with food addiction are, at their core, heartbroken. Your binge eating reveals that deep down, somewhere, your heart is broken. You may not currently be aware of this, but it's true.
Healing Binge Eating: How Often Do You Cry?
In the process of healing binge eating, ask yourself honestly: How often do I cry? How often do I shake with fear? How often do I punch pillows?
You Were Emotionally Caged in Your Childhood
Being caged emotionally and energetically feels miserable for a child. Having some comfort food while in that cage helped us cope with the lack of freedom. This can create overeating patterns.
When Parents Teach Us Compulsive Eating
Did your parents suppress emotions with food but act like their eating was "normal"? Some people grow up with one or both parents who actually modeled food addiction, but often there was no acknowledgement in the family that it was addiction at all.
How Do You Know if You’re Feeling Emotions?
How do I know if I'm feeling emotions? What does it look like to release emotions? A great indicator that you're properly feeling emotions and releasing them is if you look like a small child does when they are feeling emotions.
Why I Have No “Off-Limits” Foods
Within a vegan diet, I have no foods that are off limits. Not sugar, not chocolate, not fried food, not flour, processed food etc. I don't eat those things often because I don't feel great if I have them often, but they're not off-limits from a psychological standpoint.
Your Children Aren’t Causing Your Overeating
If you’re a parent, your children are not the cause of your compulsive eating. Your own childhood is. Whatever is being triggered by your children is far older than their existence.
Compulsive Eating: When You Feel it’s Not Emotional
It is normal, when we begin this healing process, to feel like, "I don't have many suppressed feelings. I don’t think my overeating is due to an emotional cause.”
Food Addiction and the Truth of Your Childhood
You developed compulsive eating as a child because you were not allowed to know the truth of your childhood. They didn't allow you to see what was really going on, understand it, nor have feelings about it.
My Overeating and Guilt About My Mother
I felt guilty at even the thought of questioning my relationship with my mother. For most of my life, I thought that my "dad stuff" was the sole root of my issues. After all, Dad left, Mom stayed.
Food Addiction and Being a Cycle-Breaker
Have you felt, or been judged to be, too sensitive? A “troublemaker”? Too dramatic? Do you see patterns in your family that bother you?
Healing Food Addiction: Less Crystals and More Crying
It’s not more meditation and crystals and bubble baths that you need, it’s more feeling messy emotions that you need. Healing overeating is not achieved through traditional self-care practices. It can never be healed if you're always trying to rise above or "observe" your emotions.