Mike "Bagel"

Making Peace with Food: Embracing the Permission Paradox

Summary:

Making peace with food involves understanding that all foods fit, including Oreos.

The fear of never being able to stop eating when given permission to eat anything is often a result of past deprivation. Embracing the permission paradox allows individuals to truly evaluate their desire

For our purposes, the key observation from Dyble’s study is the uneven nature of the foragers’ efforts. A busy start to a fishing expedition might also involve a long nap in the boat during the midday doldrums. An exhausting hunting trip might be followed by multiple days waiting out the rain, doing very little. The rice-farming Agta, by contrast,

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

—Carl Jung

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Grieving the loss of good things isn’t pathological. It’s human—something that happens to social animals with a deep natural desire to love and be loved. If anything is pathological, it’s pretending we’re not animals of this sort—that we’re somehow better off not loving than loving and losing the good things we love. Stoic practice encour- ages