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Nervous System Regulation and Overeating
What is the link between “nervous system regulation” and healing overeating? Is it necessary to do these regulation practices? Which ones are best and why? This blog discusses these topics.
“I Can’t Have Joy, But I Can Have Chocolate”
You are good enough for love, you can heal the reasons you don't have comfort, and you can find joy again. But it doesn't feel like that, when we're in this space.
When Parents Enjoy Body-Shaming Their Child
Some parents have such dark feelings that actually love the power, control and superiority that they can have by shaming their child who overeats. It has to be said, because in some cases this is true, and it's vital to work through it if it is the case for you.
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.
Healing Compulsive Eating: What Are Cravings, Really?
How can you know if a craving for a particular food is a desire coming from the physical body, or a desire coming from you emotionally, which may actually be a compulsive, addictive feeling?
“My Parents Did Their Best” Will Prevent Healing
Telling yourself that your parents did the best they could have will prevent you from healing compulsive eating. The true causes of our relationship with food originate in our childhood experience.
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.
How I Unfroze Emotionally and Healed Binge Eating
When I began researching compulsive eating and first discovered the idea that the way to heal is to feel suppressed emotions, I was very shut down.
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.
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.
Overeating Isn’t Really About Food
Overeating isn’t really about your relationship with food, it’s about your relationship with emotions. Overeating is like the last domino in a domino chain. It's an effect and a symptom of a deeper underlying cause.
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?
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.
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.
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.
How I Got Back Into Fitness After Being Sedentary
When I was in the thick of my binge eating and at my highest weight, when I had gained about 65 pounds in 2 years, I was also at my least physically active. I knew I needed to start exercising again, because I had all but stopped.