Women, Food, and Desire: Embrace Your Cravings, Make Peace with Food, Reclaim Your Body
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Look at the list and ask yourself how happy, motivated, open, and supportive these people are. Do they feel good about themselves? Do they make you feel good about yourself? Next, honestly evaluate whether each of these people is helping you move forward in your self-discovery process or whether they’re holding you back. Finally, tell yourself the
... See moreIf you’ve come to the point where what you’re feeding yourself or telling yourself is filling, but not fulfilling, well, that means that the message buried beneath that craving just hasn’t gotten through to you yet.
if we keep them locked up and hidden, even from ourselves, we are bound to be sick at heart. Isolation is a killer, and leaves us alone with our brains, which aren’t always thinking straight. And when that happens, we’re susceptible to making bad choices.
If a woman were to give up the weight that’s masking her power, she would become more nimble, more noticeable, more visible in ways that would force her to be more accountable for, and in, her life. And being accountable scares us. And no wonder, because if we become accountable, we run the risk of becoming seen and successful, and if we become suc
... See moreThat’s because this question is bursting with such deep meaning that it often bypasses the head and goes right to the heart.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. —Aristotle
“You’re only as sick as your secrets.” With food, this is most certainly true. But, as Patricia learned, it’s also true with our feelings;
Reading Brené Brown’s powerful work Daring Greatly helped me understand that vulnerability is a strength, not a weakness.
It is time to stop mindlessly trying to get our cravings to stop bugging us. The irony here is that they will only loosen their grip on us when we commit to stop, listen, and learn from them. Only when you do this, when you learn to stop reacting and get quiet and really listen, will your cravings become what they truly are: your greatest guide.
When someone wants to know what our most secret wishes for ourselves are, we immediately become exquisitely vulnerable. We immediately become seen. And if we truthfully answer the question, then—and most terrifying of all—we become known.