ENGAGING WITH FOOD THROUGH INTUITIVE EATING // THOUGHTS

Real talk 😵 I’m sharing this because I know I’m not alone on this journey, so maybe it will help you. But it’s also healing for me to write.

I’ve been on this intuitive eating journey for a few months and this week I had some very emotionally stressful moments in my life, and I didn’t know how to cope other than turning to food. After talking to @stephdodier privately, she explained to me what’s happening. I’m not regressing, my binge was not a setback... and the POWER of intuitive eating is being able to look at that behavior (in my case, binge eating) from a place of curiosity rather than judgement.
Curiosity, like... 👉🏼 “What’s really going on in your life, Ashley?” Rather than judgement, (which is what happened), which sent me into a downward spiral and within a few hours I was in a very dark place with self hate and body image.
WHOA. So basically:
👉🏼 How we engage with food is how we engage with life.👈🏼
Things have been chaotic lately, and on top of that I’ve been traveling, and the kids have been adjusting to some new things. After talking with @stephdodier I now realize that I have removed all of the “tools” I had been using to cope with high stress situations (food) and so I panicked... I went back to the only way of coping I knew how. I had no control in that situation so I turned to something I knew I could control: food. 🤯
I need to develop new tools.
So what’s next? I’m going to start CBT soon to further work on my emotional traumas and relationship with food so I can fully heal and eat intuitively with a shiny new box of tools. 😌 Have any of you had experience with this? So curious to know 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼