Weight-Loss Apocalypse

This client suffered with excessive focus on her weight, food, diet, and emotional eating. We discuss accepting who she truthfully is, without trying to become something different. She is addressing underlying depression and the goal to lose weight thinking that would help her feel better. By giving up weight loss and dieting, she isn't chasing a mirage of betterment any more and her underlying sadness and low self esteem is arising. This has left her feeling depressed and worthless. When giving up goals used to distract from our emotional issues, a person then has to face and address those problems. This is difficult for many people because they don't inherently feel good about themselves, and the recovery process allows those feelings to arise. This is when real work begins, and that requires people give up their dreams, goals, and the mirage of betterment they are chasing. RECORDED JANUARY 2018 #thinsupreamacy #weightlossapocalypse #eatingdisorders #emotionaleating #bingeea...

In this vulnerable session we discuss going into fear, even though her mind demands her to turn away, avoid, repress, deny, and to escape it. This takes an incredible amount of humility and courage. As she stands in her fear without denial, threats arise suggesting she'll never be loved, she'll die alone, she'll be alone...she'll live in permanent pain. This aspect of escaping the body- and diet-supremacy syndrome is inevitable if a person is going to gain access to freedom and recovery. RECORDED JANUARY 2018 #thinsupremacy #weightlossapocalypse #bodyimage #fear #anxiety #panic #terror #survivalmode #consciousness #recovery #syndrome #survivalsyndrome #supremacysyndrome #eatingdisorder #emotionaleating #foodaddiction #ed #bed #bingeeatingdisorder #ana #anorexia #bulimia #ednos #rehab #escape #selflove

We go deep into the conversation about being raised to meet narcissistic standards of superiority with body image, religious shame around sex, and concepts that demonize our human nature. The first 20 minutes of this session are so important when looking at how people lose touch with their true selves and gain touch with social programming that leaves them feeling bad about who they are. This discussion about sexuality and shame about the body is so important. SUCH A GOOD CONVERSATION! RECORDED JANUARY 2018 #weightlossapocalypse #thinsupremacy #eatingdisorders #emotionaleating #bodyimage #perfectionism #sin #religiousfear #religiousshame #shame #sexuality #guilt #suffering #ed #ana #bulimia #ednos #bed #morality #zealotry #grace #surrendering #surrender #forgiveness #recovery

This client is struggling to stop the chaos between emotional eating and chasing the mirage of weight loss. Her beliefs, fears, health concepts, and increasing impulsive need to overeat and binge feel overwhelming and to big to handle. This is such a difficult space to be in, especially when you feel like you've been back into a corner that makes the need to diet and urge to binge even worse. This struggle is hell. RECORDED JANUARY 2018 #weightlossapocalypse #thinsupremacy #bodyimage #dietbingedietcycle #emotionaleating #eatingdisorders #ed #bed #bingeeating #ana #bulimia #bodydietsupremacysyndrome #depression #recovery #acceptance #loss #surrender #selflove

After months of freedom from emotional eating and binge eating, she starts over eating again. One of the biggest triggers to emotional eating is thinking you've done something wrong by eating. We discuss the pull back into the disordered body-diet syndrome and the misery of having anxiety, worry, fixation, and fear about food is because she's worried she's going to gain weight. Before, she had accepted her weight and with that came immense freedom. But as soon as she started worrying about weight gain, the insanity instantly returned, and so did her impulse to over eat. Ultimately, she will need to address her underlying beliefs that fat gain is bad, thinnerness is good. #thinsupremacy RECORDED JANUARY 2018 #weightlossapocalypse #bodyimage #bodyshame #healthsupremacy #dietbingedietcycle #emotionaleating #foodaddiction #sugaraddiction #bingeeatingdisorder #bed #narcissisticculture #dietfearmonguring #ana #anorexia #orthorexia #bodydietsupremacysyndrome

This is the first holiday season she didn't struggle with emotional and binge eating. We've been working together for a couple months and addressing the underlying survival strain she's had with important people in her life, with her body, and lastly with food. RECORDED JANUARY 2018 #weightlossapocalypse #thinsupreamcy #bingeeatingdisorder #bed #emotionaleating #dietbingecycle #dietbingediet #ed #bodyimage #bulimia #selfworth #recovery #surrender #acceptance

Thinking she'd fix her body and health when her life was easier, she ended up neglecting herself for years. After she reached a low point emotionally and reaching out for help, she is now getting the medical treatment she needed years ago. Before reaching out, she always thought she needed to lose weight first before going to the doctor. This postponement increases the pressure for people to approach diets with perfectionism, and ultimately results in procrastination. Over the course of years, symptoms get worse, and the pressure to fix things can feel overwhelming. For years, she relied on alcohol consumption and getting a buzz to remove that pressure. We discuss the link between the need for pleasure through drugs, alcohol, addictive behaviors to provide the grace and mercy a person truly needs to recover. Now that she's given her self and her past grace, she's forgiven her stepfather for molesting her, and she's providing her life and body love without the pressure...