Tag Archive | never too late

Taking Time to Heal

Mar3

It is important to take the time necessary to heal the pain in your life. It’s hard to be patient in this new world where we want everything to happen now.

Hurt can come in the form of physical or emotional pain. Healing takes time and requires patience and trust. If you use food to cope with your pain, the pain will increase as the consequences of your actions present themselves.

Overeating only adds to the problem and causes you to see time as the enemy. Living in the moment and dealing with life’s upheavals as they come along will make it easier to let the pain run its course.

Daily life doesn’t stop because you overeat or feel shame or embarrassment about your food addiction. Life goes on with or without you.

You are too important to let time pass you by. The consequences of addictive behaviour take time to heal. You may want to set a time and say it will all end when that time arrives, but it may not work out that way.

One thing that is important to remember when you’re making a plan is that whatever else it may be, it has to be something that works for you. It’s all for you.

You do your part and let time do its part. Take time to heal. Make time to live. Food addictions and addictive behaviour of any kind isn’t planned.

It is what happens when we don’t have a plan. What is the simplest plan you can make so you can avoid being caught in the trap of your addiction?

Focus on each moment giving it your full attention with no distractions and no judgments. Observe and be present.

Show up for your moment and time will take care of the rest.

Love and Food Addiction

Sep22

There is a reason people are addicts. No one chooses an addiction, especially a food addiction. Why would they?

Obesity runs rampant in the United States because it has become so easy to eat unhealthy foods. The quest for instant gratification flies in the face of honoring these bodies we wear from the time we are born to the time we die.

Fast food is easy, not as cheap as it used to be but still cheap, over-processed, and unprepared to provide the body with nutrition.

Fast, over-processed food is not meant to provide you with nutrients. It is meant to taste good and fill you up and that is what it does.

There is no energy involved. In fact, most people feel like sleeping after they eat at a fast food restaurant.

There is no love in fast food. It is salty, often greasy, full of fats–that’s why it makes you feel full temporarily–and it ruins your health.

Where is the love you used to taste in homemade pot roast with mashed potatoes made from real potatoes and fresh vegetables that we didn’t call veggies and say you had to eat them because they were good for you?

Food is supposed to be good for you. Food was once a way to express love.

But something happened along the way. Instead of enjoying all the tastes, flavors, and sensual feelings a meal once provided, food has become a tool to stuff down feelings and pretend it’s okay to be alone, ignored, and undervalued.

Food doesn’t feel good anymore. And most of the time, it doesn’t make those eating it feel the pleasure or nutritional benefits food is meant to provide.

This is particularly true for people with a food addiction.

Food addicts are missing an important, life-enriching nutrient from their daily lives. It’s not food we hunger for. It is love.

Love is the feast that fills you up but not out. It fills up your senses and tames your wildest hungers.

I am not talking about sex. I am talking about love. Without love, one can not overcome a food addiction.

With love, you can. It’s as simple as that.

It’s Never Too Late to Be Great! ®