Food, emotional eating and trauma (Part 3 - back to basics)

So what to do?

Back to basics…
I’m sharing below a few pointers. Feel free to add any other pointers you found helpful in your own life, in the comments.

🌿 Focus on recovering and not on weight loss or food purity. You may ask recovering from what? Recovering from the “food abuse” and unhelpful rules and habits you have placed upon your self along the years.

🌿 Put food in its proper place. Food is essential to survival and also a source of pleasure and enjoyment, but it’s not meant to be the centre of our lives.

🌿 Bring some joy back. Add enjoyable activities to your days, even small increments each day can be helpful. This way you can find pleasure in other areas of life as well.

🌿 Get familiar with your hunger cues. Learning how to eat only when you are truly hungry, most of the time. (I will write a post to help you recognise signs of true hunger).

🌿 Back to basics. Eat 3 times a day, good portions to last until the next meal, choosing real/natural nutritious food. Stop starving yourself. Starving and fasting will naturally bring up fight/flight response in your system.

🌿 Focus on nervous system regulation and somatic healing. Somatic work will increase “interoception” which will help you to recognise signs of hunger. This type of work will also help you integrate impulses that are driving you to use food as a source of comfort.

🌿 Learn your triggers. Tiredness, stress and overwhelm are a few of many triggers that might play a role on emotional eating.
Thus, sleep is really important + to use your resources throughout the day to keep stress and overwhelm at bay.

Please check my highlight “Resources” (to learn what they are and how to implement) and another one titled “Sleep” (with somatics and Polyvagal tips).

If you would like more support on this feel free to book a 1:1 somatic session or apply for my 6 months mentorship.