Building a fresh approach: Strategies for healing your relationship with food.

3 min readJul 18, 2023

Mindfulness Meditation and awareness

Meditation and awareness help you become more aware of your thought, when we constantly overeat, we don’t notice we are feeling something,

It is most often after we overeat we realize that we have finished all that food, distracting ourselves with the soothing feeling that food brings

Meditation helps you build mindfulness around what you are doing.

The voices in your head are a lot, and they can stop you from hearing your thoughts and allowing you to feel.

Practicing at least 5 mins every day takes you from reacting to your emotions to respond instead

Journaling is fantastic; I know we hardly know what happened before you started craving food; we just find that we crave some food and then eat them,

But what triggered that craving in what we are yet to discover

It is ok to be hungry, but what about craving when you are not hungry

Are you bored?

did you not sleep last night?

Are you feeling anxious?

Do you have a busy day tomorrow?

Has work been overwhelming and busy?

did you have a stressful day?

when last did you allow yourself to feel your feeling?

sometimes we don’t know these things,

we are using food to numb ourselves,

we don’t let ourselves feel, so we are numbing with food

we try to stay positive no matter what,

One thing about my home country is that when there is a feeling of unease in the air,

one thing we do is eat,

we take every opportunity to eat,

to get that feeling of safety

Have I mentioned that food has a way of making us feel safe?

It soothes us. Alcohol or smoking soothes many people.

And most of the time, these things go hand in hand

You crave more food after you have smoked or had something to drink

understanding what role food plays for you through journaling will help you understand why you under-eat and over-eat

Why would you rather stay hungry, or why would you eat until you are numb?

just understanding where you are, what stories you are telling yourself

will help you on your journey to building your relationship with food

If you want to learn more about why you want to heal your relationship with food, first listen here; this will help you build on what you know,

Don’t wait to start — begin from where you are.

it will help you recognize what you are doing with food and exercise

and then lead

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