Often “excesses” themselves become drug-like in intensity. ‘Feeling bad’ can become a comforting thing, simply because it is familiar and less scary than feeling vulnerable. Even using food as a drug can be both a means to self-indulgence, self-nurturing, and self-punishment with the familiarity to want to feel bad all at the same time. Yet what is real here is the desire to “feel” So the eating/food issue confuses all these emotions into one confusing or anxious mood state that seeks relief. What is really required - is separating all these various feelings from each other. Then emotional fitness tells you you don’t want “to feel bad” – but you do want to “nurture feelings.” This is the true emotional house-cleaning that must be done. It’s about removing emotional clutter. Then labeling and feeling these emotions become easier. With that, the perceived issue of eating or food is weakened substantially. Its an emotional fitness/emotional awareness issue - not a diet problem (from my book Food Issues and You: Finally Facing Your Phantom Menace) bit.ly/uLavWU
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 20:41:39 +0000
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