"Your Relationship with Food…and How You Can Heal It!"

"In a time when many are calling for better eating habits for ourselves and our children…when obesity and poor eating habits are a national epidemic…do you wonder why we eat the way we do? Why so many of us seem unable to keep good eating habits? And how we can truly make a lasting, sustainable change in the way we eat?"

"Food is a hot button issue today — summer, fall, winter and spring. We hear a lot about obesity in our nation, about diseases and conditions related to poor eating habits, but most of us still cannot seem to make sustainable changes to our eating habits, no matter how many times we resolve to “eat healthier” or “lose weight.” Why is this?"

"The way we eat is rooted in our own individual relationship with food. And most importantly, our relationship with food doesn’t usually really have to do with food at all. Rather, it has to do with our relationship with ourselves — our own thoughts and feelings, our own wounds or pains from childhood, and the memories that still live within us…within our minds, bodies, hearts and souls."

It runs deeper
Our relationship with food runs deeper than simply observing our parents’ eating habits, and either copying or rejecting them. It runs deeper than our own experiences with food and eating as children. And although it is definitely related to the feelings within us, and though we do eat to push down our feelings, the root of our relationship with food even runs deeper than eating to push down our feelings.

– Judith Barr

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Reprinted with permission from edgemagazine.net