Emotional Eating (part 1):

I'm calling this part 1 as I assume it will not be the first or last post I put out on this topic!

Here are 3 ways to unpack, understand and apply new strategies to your emotional eating journey:

1. UNDERSTANDING

When we are born we are innately driven to seek food for comfort. We enter the world crying and are soothed with milk for a warm comforting source. Pure Love ❤️

As children this is REINFORCED! Have you ever been rewarded with food? Given a lollypop at the GP, given an ice-cream for passing grades in school? Has food been used to negotiate your behaviour? Behave for sweets, misbehave you won't get them?

These subconsciously make a HUGE impact in our relationship with food as adults.

2. UNPACK

Reflect on YOUR experiences in childhood - what food rules did you have to adhere to and how does this sit with you now?

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3. APPLY!

Create a toolkit of alternative COPING STRATEGIES (aka Self Care!)

My Self Care Checklist

Build a toolkit of coping strategies to help you next time you would like to FEEL and PROCCESS an emotion, not just NUMB IT!

**NOTE! Sometimes the only thing for it is a TimTam or litre of ice cream! The goal here is not to eliminate emotional eating - that would be wildly unrealistic. The idea is to EXPLORE YOUR RELATIONSHIP with food & make choices YOU are comfortable with ❤️

When building your toolkit ask yourself the following questions:

• Am I being compassionate with myself right now?

• How can I validate this emotion?

• Am I ready to FEEL this and hold space for this core emotion that has surfaced?

• How can I HONOUR this emotion?

• What self-care can I do to make me FEEL GOOD ABOUT ME!

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