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Healing your destructive relationship with food isn’t always pretty.
In fact, I’d say that most of the time it is anything but pretty.
Healing is messy in all the best ways. You get sad, you get angry, you get frustrated – just as much as you experience bursts of freedom and joy.
Healing is a twisted road that often only makes sense in hindsight, which is why it’s so difficult to walk this road alone – without any guideposts holding up the mirror to your truth.
The more you fight all the “beautiful ugliness” coming up, the more pain you’ll create for yourself.
The truth is that we have this messy and suffocating relationship with food for a reason. We try to numb our pain, fill up this big gaping hole in our hearts, control what we cannot control.
We do what we do to try to get what we don’t have.
When we begin to let go of our crutch, all the underlying pain comes rushing out – what else do we expect? And instead of trying to patch it up, to hide the anguish, surrender to it and feel it – feel it until it vanishes and you are ready to move on.
You cannot rush this process. You cannot speed it up and it will certainly not happen on your pre-determined timeline. Healing happens the way it wants to happen – whether you like it or not. Whether you planned it that way or not.
You can fight it until you’re blue in the face, you can go back to numbing, filling up, suppressing, but eventually you will have to feel it.
And then, get ready to blow up your entire life, to burst through the seams that have always been too tight, to unbox yourself and shed all the layers of pretense that you’ve been carrying around for decades.
Once you feel the pain, you will finally allow your core to speak, to guide you to being the person you were always meant to be. And that’s what this is all about: to heal the pain, let go of using food to create safety and realize that you carry all the safety you need deep within.
No, healing isn’t pretty.
Life isn’t pretty.
But it’s effin’ glorious and so worth going through the muddy experience of uncovering your soul in order to lift the haze and do what you’ve always wanted to.
In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast, Deb and I explore this topic of suppressing emotions and practicing patience in the face of healing.
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Love and light,
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