In my last article I explained that restricting food leads to food guilt and overeating, what it means to give ourselves unconditional permission to eat (i.e. the Permission Paradox), and why permission is essential for making peace with food.
The idea of permission is scary for emotional and restrictive eaters. In this article I answer the three most common questions I get from clients when they begin this work.
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My clients reach out to me because they’re unhappy in their food life. They’re using food to deal with emotions, they feel stressed and guilty about their food choices and body, and they’re exhausted from trying to stick to a healthy diet. They want support learning how to live joyfully, feel at ease around food, and regain trust in their bodies and decision making. This is 100% possible. But in order to get there, I help them understand that…..
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If you’re overcoming a troubled relationship with food and you’re feeling frustrated or discouraged, there’s likely a disconnect between the expectations you have for yourself and the reality of the healing journey or what I call, “The Process”. If we don’t acknowledge and remedy this disconnect, and we don’t know that our rocky experience with The Process is to be expected, we might give up prematurely and walk away as if we’re doing something wrong. The antidote to shame and self-doubt inflicted by unrealistic expectations is to understand The Process, trust it, and learn to flow with it.
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