So how do you actually get to ease and peace around food and in your body?
Maybe you’ve spent years trying to control food to create peace, but it hasn’t worked. You thought if you finally got to the certain place physically, you’d finally feel okay. And the noise would stop.
One of the things I’ve learned is that your out of control relationship to food and your body is not necessarily about food and your body. It’s really about how you feel about yourself and whether you feel loved, accepted, and approved of.
One part of you feels like you need to control yourself in order to get these things: to be loved and approved of. And another part of you feels like food is the only relief you have from the feeling of not being good enough.
The way out is not more control. I learned this on my own journey when I was resolving my emotional eating. I had to go deeper than what I was seeing on the surface. I had to get into the roots of my behaviour in order to actually shift my emotional eating.
So, if your relationship with food feels like you need to restrict it, I can relate. Early in my journey, I really felt I had to restrict food because I felt so out of control with it. I had gotten this idea that if I looked a certain way, I would finally feel loved and accepted and get all the things I wanted.
And my way to get that was to have a certain body to be a certain way. And in order to get that, I needed to control food.
Let’s dive in:
- 1:33 This inner war took me down the wrong path for many years.
- 3:16 This was not just about controlling food – the deeper reason for my behaviour and the measures I took to try to get control.
- 5:43 Flipping my life upside down in an effort to get control with food, my body and my life (spoiler: it didn’t work)
- 7:06 Putting on my scientist hat and figuring out my emotional eating on my own: my first light bulb moment
- 8:38 Finding a streamlined way to get to the root of my emotional eating.
- 9:26 Adding in nourishment, body acceptance and seeing a new way to resolve emotional eating.
- 11:25 Resolving my emotional eating, falling in love with food and a new path.
- 12:53 Facing my fear: looking my emotional eating in the eyes and the evolution of helping others.
- 15:14 Getting to ease and peace around food and in your body.
- 17:54 The Emotional Eating Evolution Program and next steps.
Next Steps
1. If you are ready to start your journey to resolving your Emotional Eating you can download my free guide “What Are You Truly Hungry For?” to start discerning true from emotional hunger and catching your triggers HERE.
2. If you are ready to transform your emotional eating so that you can get to ease, peace and confidence around food and in your body with a step by step process and guidance then find out more about The Emotional Eating Evolution Program HERE.
To ease and peace,
Michelle
Certified Holistic Nutritionist Specializing in Emotional Eating
