Most of us who eat or do compulsive things for emotional reasons are trying very hard to adapt to difficult situations.
Maybe there’s a particular experience you feel really, really vulnerable about.
Like….please, I don’t ever want this to happen.
For me, one of my vulnerable spots was that I don’t want to be rejected. I don’t someone to feel complete lack of forgiveness towards me. I don’t want to have no recourse, or be unable to make it up to them, if I do something “wrong”.
Very, very stressful.
It went back a long, long way into my history.
It felt like a core, gut feeling I had for my entire life.
If you give yourself the attention, the care, the compassion to look at your own places of vulnerability….
….maybe even the “special” two or three you repeat over and over….
….you may find something amazing happen.
You stop craving food. You stop feeling so compulsive.
Ask this one question when you feel like overeating, or doing something to soothe yourself emotionally that isn’t really that good for you (drinking, smoking, hooking up, spending).
Peace,
Grace