Poor Interoception? Here’s What You Can Do About It
The way we eat can reflect more than appetite, it often mirrors our internal state. Some patterns are familiar and continuous, others sudden and intense.
Neither is random. Each can tell a story about what our body and nervous system are working hard to manage.
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Poor interoception inhibits our ability to harness the vast processing powers of our intuition, metacognition, and emotional data. It narrows us down to rely on rule-bound analytical thinking that can be draining and unproductive in testing circumstances.