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To Heal Emotional Eating, Feel Safe in Your Body

If you have an eating disorder, whether it is bulimia, anorexia, or other form of “emotional eating,” ask yourself this: Do I feel safe in my Lake Almanor homes body?

I have worked for over twenty years with women with all sorts of emotional eating problems including severe eating disorders. I am fully recovered from bulimia, myself. One of the most deeply entrenched experiences that women with eating disorders carry throughout life, if they don’t seek healing, is the feeling of being unsafe in their own bodies. I believe that the suffering we cause ourselves (dis-eases, eating disorders and addictions, violence, and other dysfunctional behavior) originates with our disconnection from the Self. A result of this “disconnect” is insecurity.

Food and alcohol provide temporary respite from the stress of insecurity. Biochemically, eating produces serotonin, which numbs our fear. Dieting gives us a sense of power and releases endorphins–the neurochemicals that override anxiety and pain. These biochemical “safety devices” help us relax momentarily, but “numbing out” fails to create genuine safety and well-being in our lives.

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There are two types of safety resources that you can develop for yourself: inner safety resources and outer safety resources. This article focuses on the inner safety resources that will allow you to nurture yourself and think positively.

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When I was in the early stages of healing from bulimia, I learned how to meditate, calm myself down, think positively about things, and not make mountains out of molehills. I learned to create a nurturing inner environment for myself. Here are some typical inner safety resources I’ve compiled from my clients and workshop participants:

• Prayer and spirituality
• Meditation
• Optimism
• Ability to reframe events and outcomes positively
• Ability to redirect negative thinking

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• Visualization of comforting objects and activities (snuggling into a warm, cozy blanket, for example)
• Visualization of supportive or beloved people, such as a parent, aunt, or teacher
• Writing, journaling, drawing
• Soothing music
• Setting limits and saying “no” to people I don’t want to be around
• Self-responsibility

Have you developed and utilized some of these inner safety resources? Think back to your childhood–perhaps you used some of them in the past. If so, it’s time to reconnect with them again. Make a list of both the healthy and the dysfunctional behaviors you see in yourself as you struggle with your eating disorder. How many of your inner safety resources are actually unhealthy for you? (An example of a dysfunctional or unhealthy attempt to achieve safety may be reaching for ice cream to soothe an anxiety, or cutting your food into tiny pieces to maintain a sense of control.)

Here is a simple exercise you can go through to determine how safe you feel in your body: Sitting in a comfortable chair, take two or three deep breaths from your diaphragm, vacation rentals crescent beach club sand key florida then imagine the last time you remember eating out of alignment with your desired eating plan. What do you feel right before eating? (It’s probably some form of anxiety.) What do you need?

Now replace your image of your undesirable safety resource (overeating, arizona channel 12 news restricting, purging, for example) with nurturing self-care: Imagine one of the positive items on your list of inner safety resources. What do you experience in your body as you think of that resource? How do you feel?

Continue to breathe deeply from your diaphragm as you imagine this positive resource. Notice what you are experiencing in your body.

Through such inner work, you can and will learn to experience the joy of feeling truly safe within your body. You can transform your relationship to food and heal your eating disorder–I’ve done it and I’ve helped hundreds of other women do it.

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