There’s a point in your life where not listening to your needs drives you down a road that is hard to recover from.
And although taking care of your needs still has a bad rap, especially if you have a family, it is essential if you want to stop abusing food as a way to cope with life.
There are many times that taking care of your needs feels inconvenient and selfish. Heck, most of us grew up being told that taking care of yourself is selfish all the time. It is not something women do. And whether it’s been said with words or whether you’ve observed it in the women around you, this attitude shapes you and leads to a way of believing you have to be everything to everyone all the time – without ever listening to your actual needs.
I have learned to become quite good at taking care of my needs, which has given me the label of being the ‘selfish one’. And while these words sting, I don’t allow them to affect me in a negative way.
Here’s the thing: while the media and our culture definitely plays a huge part in developing a toxic relationship with food and your body, the majority of us use food because life is too much for us.
We cannot cope or don’t want to face what is going on in this current moment and so we eat or restrict. We hate on our bodies and plan the next diet because it serves a major distraction from what is really going on.
I’ve seen over and over and over again how easy it is to stuff yourself with candy until you feel sick because you’re so stressed that you don’t know where to put your nervous energy.
I’ve seen over and over again how easy it is to not eat in order to not feel all the emotional crap that is been throw at you in life.
It is easy to eat, diet or hate on yourself and in certain ways it is being accepted and even celebrated by society, but it is hard to question all of your limiting beliefs around listening to your needs, putting yourself first and acting on what it is you realize when you begin to honor yourself.
In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast, I share my views and learning of listening to my needs and then acting on them over years hoping to inspire you to do the same.
Your relationship with food depends on it… and so does your sanity.
Love and light,
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