Sublime

This eating disorder would become healed if the sufferers, instead of being identified with their mind, could get in touch with their body and so feel the true needs of the body rather than the pseudo-needs of the egoic mind.

And she's the one who freaks out, gorging herself on food in order to feel grounded.

When we stop numbing and start feeling and learning again, we have to reevaluate everything, especially how to choose loving ourselves over making other people comfortable. It was the hardest work I’ve ever done and continue to do.

A pessoa de peso normal que faz dieta para se sentir magra e para ter essa aparência é também vulnerável a perturbações dos padrões cognitivos, emocionais e de comportamento em virtude do estresse constante de tentar se manter abaixo do peso ‘natural’, ou regulado biologicamente, do corpo.”

Dr. Keys’s Minnesota Starvation Experiment first documented the effect of “semi-starvation neurosis.” People who lose weight dream about food. They obsess about food. All they can think about is food. Interest in all else diminishes. This behavior is not some strange affliction of the obese. In fact, it’s entirely hormonally driven and normal. The

because she is working hard to understand, to peel back the layers of her perceptions and her defenses to see what lies underneath.