When I surveyed my newsletter readers back In the April, a common survey response theme was:
“I feel uncomfortable in my body and feel ridiculous that I am focused on this when there is so much else that is so much more important to deal with.”
I sooo get this. I felt this way about my own weight struggles in the 9/11, U.S. invasion of Iraq-era. And today’s world issues feel much more urgent and complex.
Yet what I’ve discovered is that tending to our body discomfort is not ridiculous. With a holistic and root cause resolution approach like Truce with Food, our body discomfort reveals a values gap of what we say matters and what how we are actually living. And this values gap matters deeply right now.
Collectively, we understand “normal” isn’t working; “bottom up” changes in how we spend our time, money, and energy matter if we want to create a new, healthier normal.
To illustrate what this values-gap driven body discomfort looks like to work through, my Truce with Food clients Charlotta and Margaret Louise are here to share their journey of self-authoring their values for more psychological safety and a radically different relationship to food and themselves.
In today’s episode, we discuss:
- A deeper understanding of how to embody safety to increase resilience and decrease out of control eating.
- How systems like capitalism and patriarchy, which value control, unknowingly molded our collective values and the personal values each of us had to change.
- An alternative definition of valuing discipline (that isn’t about control) to change our food habits and life.
- The new values that replaced perfectionism, hyper-productivity, “faster, better”, and trying to do everything on our own.
- How this values revolution evolved the stories that were driving our stress and body discomfort and led to better food choices, a more sacred relationship with our bodies, and more fulfillment.
Mentioned in this Episode
Free Food as Safety Gatherings
Truce with Food 2023
The Sparkling Mud
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