Today we’re going to talk about how trauma impacts your emotional eating.
So when people hear the word trauma, they often think of something catastrophic, and they don’t want to talk about it.
But trauma is not a bad word, and trauma is on a spectrum. Yes, of course, sometimes trauma can be obvious and big, but there are subtler forms of trauma as well.
And I really love to talk about trauma, but for most of the world, this is a very scary word. I want to demystify trauma for you today because if we’re not looking in this direction to help with your emotional eating, we are not doing your pattern justice.
If you can really understand what trauma is, it’s going to help you see that you’re not damaged, and that you’re actually quite intelligent and that you learned a way to adapt to your situations and to your environment.
So let’s dive in and talk a little bit about what trauma is. Trauma is on a spectrum, and it really is about how we interact with an event in our lives and how we process it.
For example, I could have gone through a situation and you could have gone through the same situation and you could have left it feeling fine and I could have left it feeling traumatized because I wasn’t able to process it, to resolve it, or to move through the emotional waves of it. But you were able to. And that’s the difference.
Trauma is subjective to us and to our bodies. So we can see trauma as a Big-T trauma, and that’s usually when the word trauma is used. That’s what we think of. We think of a car accident, a death in the family or severe abuse. And those are Big-T traumas.
And small-t traumas are things that we might not think about as trauma. For example, we might live in a household with repeated criticism, body shaming, emotional dismissal, hearing things like “toughen up” or “be more positive”, feeling unseen, or experiencing pressure to be better, to perform, or to be perfect.
So let’s dive in
- 2:17 The type of trauma that is connected to emotional eating with the women I work with may surprise you.
- 3:16 The connection between trauma and emotional eating
- 7:16 Emotional eating triggers and why trauma is not a scary word
- 8:40 The role I play for clients in doing the deeper work with trauma
- 9:30 This is not about digging for trauma but working with real life triggers
- 10:16 Client examples of the root of their emotional eating
- 13:09 How to move through trauma to resolve emotional eating? Insight into what sessions look like.
- 15:55 Resources 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 healing,
Michelle
Certified Holistic Nutritionist Specializing in Emotional Eating
