Disordered Eating

Disordered eating has captured my attention as a clinical focus. I am unreservedly empathetic to those battling with such a consuming force as food/fat/dieting obsessions. I am very aware of the power it holds to combine in captivity our minds, bodies, and spirits all at the same time.

Clinically speaking, disordered eating can rear it's head in a myriad of expressions that are commonly heard: anorexia nervosa, bulimia, overeating. I also believe that eating becomes disordered when your relationship with food becomes a controlling focal point of our minds, emotions, and daily activities. It is so important in recovery from disordered eating to learn what your struggle is really about—it isn’t about food and fat. Disordered eating is a gift in that it is a red herring, distracting from the real battle with deeper issues. Once you learn the language of your red herring, you will have something to work with to make a lasting change in your relationship with food, and more importantly your relationship with yourself.

Weather your relationship with food, eating, dieting, and exercising is disrupted to a clinical or sub-clinical level, my heart's desire is toward freedom from obsession and preoccupation with these forces. It is to cut the weed of disruption caused by these outward expressions of inner experiences out from the root. So often we battle with diets, lifestyle management, and other surface interventions and fail to attack the core fortress, or root, of disordered eating, found deep inside.

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