• What To Do with Heavy Emotions

    It’s safe to feel everything – and it’s so necessary. When we suppress emotions, we intensify and/or numb them. For example, by suppressing sadness we intensify it, and we numb happiness. We can’t selectively feel. When we ignore “negative” emotions, or shame ourselves for having them, we can’t fully feel positive emotions, either, because we’re […]

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  • Healthy Reliance vs. Self-Sufficiency

    I used to feel a lot of resistance and shame around asking for help. Especially when it had to do with my body and health. I felt like I should always have the answers. In fact, my self-sufficiency has been so strong at times that I could’ve been biking through a flaming tunnel, and probably […]

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  • Why Craving Substitutions Lead To Binges

    When I was restricting my food I would avoid cravings for hours, days, and sometimes weeks. I would tighten, physically and emotionally. Try to resist. Distract myself. Look at pictures of painfully thin women on the internet. Find substitutions, like frozen berries instead of ice cream. Until finally, I would collapse and have the chocolate […]

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