Food Issues and Disordered Eating
My Message Here: There is a place you come to where you can't ignore the influence and shaping power your relationship with food and your body has over the other colors in your life--your loved ones, your joys, your hopes, your sorrows, your purpose.
When you want to untangle your wires, heal your relationship with your body and heal your body itself, I have quiet assurance that there is blessing waiting for you.
This is a pursuit that can't help but bear fruit and increase the goodness as you make renovations in your relationship with yourself, your loved ones, and your God.
When you want to untangle your wires, heal your relationship with your body and heal your body itself, I have quiet assurance that there is blessing waiting for you.
This is a pursuit that can't help but bear fruit and increase the goodness as you make renovations in your relationship with yourself, your loved ones, and your God.
Clinical Eating DisordersClinically speaking, an eating disorder can rear it's head in a spectrum of expressions that are commonly heard: anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and overeating.
As well, many find themselves in this category: Imbalanced relationship with Food/Fat/Dieting/Body Image. This is falls under (EDNOS Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified)…Not all eating disorders neatly fit a specific category. Some of the ways our relationship with food can be categorized under this term may sound familiar:
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Eating becomes disordered when our relationship with food becomes an imbalanced focal point of our minds, emotions, and daily activities. You do not have to struggle at a clinical level or have a clinical diagnosis for disordered eating and/or body image to have a very negative impact on your life.
It is so important in recovery from an eating disorder to learn what your struggle is really about—it isn’t about food and fat. Disordered eating is a "decoy", a “red herring” distracting from the real battle with deeper issues. It serves a noble propose… distraction, numbing, a quick fix (“if I was just skinny…if I could just have more self control” . Once you learn the language of your true hunger, and crack the code, you will have something to work with to make a lasting change in your relationship with food, and more importantly your relationship with yourself. Food will no longer be forced to serve a purpose it was not meant to serve. Weather your relationship with food, eating, dieting, and exercising is disrupted to a clinical eating disorder or sub-clinical level, my heart's desire is toward freedom from obsession and preoccupation with these forces. It is to cut the weed of disruption caused by these outward expressions of inner experiences out from the root. So often we battle with diets, lifestyle management, and other surface interventions and fail to attack the core fortress, or root, of disordered eating, found deep inside. |
