Are You Going From Cult-To-Cult? (You Are if You're Folllowing Food Fads..)

Let’s call the craziness what it is shall we? It’s Monday and I can’t think of a nice way to say it today I’m afraid. I know sooo many women suffering as they chase after one crazy way of eating after another. And heaven knows our culture gives us plenty to be crazy over as the bookstores and talk shows and celebrities and your girlfriends all talk talk talk about the latest greatest trend around what to put in your mouth.

Please please I am begging you, at least take a moment and hear me for just this tiny little second in space and time. I so want you to have this perspective.

You can’t keep chasing crazy extreme ways of eating and expect something external to work from the outside in. It just doesn’t. You KNOW this already. Stop chasing the silliness, you’re so much smarter and wiser than this.

This is about coming into connection- and healing all of the DIS-connection. You have been disconnected for so long from what it feels like to be IN your body. And that really puts you in a terrible bind. Because your body and the way it feels, gives you all of the guidance you need about absolutely everything. Not just about what to eat, or when. But about who to be with. What kind of work to do. How to be in the world in the ways that are best for you. Things like that… really important things.

When you chase the latest food and eating and weight-related craze from some externally driven place you are going to miss what’s going on internally. Which leaves you lost and empty and in a bad place.

Yes, chasing the latest crazy food thing is a little addictive. It’s maybe a little sexier than sitting with the squirmy uncomfortable sometimes dark stuff that lives inside of us. We all have our stuff. But learning to sort through all of that with love and compassion and patience and integrity is a worthy pursuit that will actually get you somewhere. You won’t need to use food or diets if you can learn to “sit with” ( if you’ve ever been in a therapist’s office you’ve heard that term a few times) all those uncomfortable feelings, and they start to clear.

You don’t need to join the next food cult- you can stay home. You can stay home in your true home- your beloved sweet body that has been this loyal companion to you forever. You can stop abandoning it to follow some empty-promise because in your heart you know that’s not where the relief or the dignity or the promise of anything you want or need lives.

Stay home. Stay connected. You have everything you need inside. Really.

With love and every blessing-

xox

Lisa

 

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