Flip Your Script

Shame, guilt, self-condemnation, and critical self-dialogue accompany most of us in relation to food.  Without pointing fingers to parents, school, siblings, or other means of social development, it's still undeniable that our thought life surrounding self-nourishment is shaped by our young years.  The momentum of these patterns of feeding, fasting, failing, and feeling badly about ourselves only makes the negative spiral worse.  It's like a set of earbuds with a running playlist of punishment.

As a trained counselor and a woman with her own hangups with food, The Institute for the Psychology of Eating (IPE) Podcast and their programs appeal to me.  Transform Your Relationship With Food is an eight-week online program that addresses the difficult task of uprooting these mental weeds and de-tangling the web of bondage they place over our everyday nourishment.  IPE has researched and practiced what makes us "tick" in regard to our holistic (body, mind, and spirit) interaction with food, the way our inner world impacts digestion and cravings.  By asking open questions that get us thinking about the reasons we have the struggles we encounter.

It's Wellness Script writing 101, and I think it might be the most helpful tool I've seen so far in tailoring an approach to your own bio-individual and psycho-individual needs.

Jotting with Johnna
What are you hearing in those proverbial earbuds anyway?  Are you scolding yourself, shaming yourself, or "should"-ing yourself?  That cruelty will only keep you bound.  The first step:  determine what you truly want - what would it look like to get your wish granted?

Remember:  you are so very worthy of an upgrade; you co-created that playlist; and you can "record over it."  Flip the former script and write your own - one relevant to the person you are and are becoming!

Stay tuned.  Stay focused.  Stay well.