Stressful thinking, stressful eating: calming the mind when it comes to feast and social gatherings

I’m researching our fears and worries about young people and eating. Have you ever felt terrified your daughter might be developing an eating disorder?

Have you felt nervous about all the junk food at your sister’s house where she’s raising your nieces and nephews?

If you’ve had any worries at all, I’d love to have your candid answers on this survey here. Thanks for taking the time.

This work will be used for future support for how we can be with eating, food and body image ideals and not freak out but support our children, teens or those we live with. Even if your kids are grown, or you’re not a parent but have definitely been worried about someone developing eating issues….I’d love to hear from you. To fill out the survey please visit here.

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Have you been stressing because of family or other social gatherings, parties, celebrations, feasts?

Lots of food can be present. In fact, even if we’ve wished it to be so, it would be weird NOT to have food at social gatherings with others.

But disordered eating I found was born from disordered thinking.

Those thoughts. They do seem like a problem, don’t they?

In the past, I really believed everything I thought about food, eating and body image.

It was all pretty scary.

The mind was screaming at me: “Watch Out!” or “Get Ready, This Will Be Hard!” (about a holiday feast or celebration for example) or “Be Vigilant!”

You can’t be very internally calm or free when you have a voice running like this inside your head, right?

How to calm down?

Dis-connect yourself from that part of your mind. Notice that it is NOT you anyway–you’re already Not That. It’s only a voice.

You can stop watching that horror movie and stop getting worked up.

Watch how to handle this kind of alarm right here: