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A Relationship That Needs Some Work And Extra TLC
November 16, 2008 in Adult Women & Eating Disorders, Anorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder (BED), blog, Bulimia Nervosa, COE (Compulsive Over-Eating), Cognitive Processing and Effects of Dieting, Diet Breaking, Disordered Eating Behaviors, Eating Disorders, Empowered Families, Genetic and Environmental causes of ED's, Healing Families and Eating Disorder Treatment, Health & Wellbeing, Jean Kristeller PhD, Mind & Body, musings, Parent Activism and Eating Disorders, Public Health and Nutrition, Ruth Quillian Wolever PhD, Self-Care, Society and Weight Related Issues | Tags: Body+Soul, Celina Ottaway, Center for Mindful Eating, Consicous-Mindful Eating, Eating Disorder Advocacy, Eating Disorders, Food, Food&Appetite, Food&Hunger, Integrative Medicine | Leave a comment
-Melissa Punch
Blogger and writer Celina Ottaway (her blog-life is a wonderful and conscious journey!) wrote a nice piece for November’s issue of body+soul regarding an important component that is essential to all of our lives, eating disordered or not: FOOD – and how mindful eating (I’m partial to the term “conscious eating”) can help reconnect and form a healthier relationship to that which sustains us.
I don’t have an eating disorder. But like many women I know, somewhere along the way, eating — what, when, how much, in front of whom, how fast — got complicated. The sensation of hunger went from a physical signal with a simple response (“eat”) to a mixed emotion that has no clear solution. Should I, shouldn’t I? I’m being bad, I’m being good. I deserve this. I will hate myself in the morning. And on and on
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How did our appetites — for nourishment and pleasure — become suspect? Is it possible to listen to our bodies the way we did when we were children? The answers lie somewhere in the tangle of emotional, cultural, and neurological reactions that shapes our desire to eat. “Hunger is complicated,” says Jean Kristeller, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Indiana State University and president of The Center for Mindful Eating. Besides the actual physical sensation, “it has to do with a complexity of psychological cravings that may have very little to do with your physical need for food.”
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I love Celina’s parting thoughts:
Whether we move toward our deepest hungers or simply recognize them, we begin inhabiting ourselves more fully. And this moves us closer to feeling ourselves from the inside out, like we did once upon a time.
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