I’d like to introduce another important component to recovery from unwanted eating behaviors
“MY overeating makes me feel so out of control.”
“In the afternoon, this force takes over me and then I snack on whatever is in sight; I wish there was a way to stop.”
We all know there’s no magical formula to solve this complex, albeit common, challenge. There are so many reasons why we might overeat/binge eat/emotionally eat. Often, though, these episodes are characterized by feeling a disconnect between our minds and our bodies.
A binge-eating incident can feel like an out-of-body experience, a form of dissociation. Many of my clients relate that they can’t even taste the food they eat while binging; they simply zone out. As Sari* recently told me: “I know that I don’t want to be eating the whole kokosh cake, but I literally just can’t stop! My body doesn’t do what my brain wants it to do.”
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