HOW TO HEAL YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD - PART TWO

STEP ONE:

1️⃣ ACKNOWLEDGE – acknowledge that you ate the food (sound simple) but often we don’t eat this way in front of others, and try to hide it from ourselves too. 

Also, acknowledge the guilt. Name it, call it out. 

Let it show it’s face instead of just being a feeling that you’re trying to suppress. 

When we name the feeling, it has nowhere to hide and we can start to move past it (thanks @alyssanobriga – turns out this tip works for food too).

STEP TWO:

2️⃣ ACCEPT – accept that it happened, accept that you feel the guilt, you can’t change the past so let’s not let it ruin the present or inhibit our future. 

Feel where the guilt is present in the body, is it the stomach, the heart, the mind, the chest, the throat, feel into the presence of the emotion that it has brought up if it serves you. 

Take a few deep breaths into the guilt, keep breathing through it without judgement, and let it pass. 

3️⃣ LET GO – let go of the feeling, let the guilt pass, move on from it and show up for yourself in the way you want to be. 

For the next meal you are going to have, make it one that nourishes your body, fills you up with nutrients and is going to truly satisfy you. 

Let go of the judgement you placed on yourself, let go of the guilt and know that each meal, each moment is a chance to start to embody the you you want to become. 

Make your choices from this place, not a place of guilt or hatred towards yourself (I know, I’ve been there).