Optimizing Our Purpose

It’s not an eating disorder

it’s a calling for a greater kind of nourishment

Working with clients (and my previous decades of personal struggle), 99% of the time, the empowering changes of our emotional eating doesn’t come by simply changing the macronutrients or our eating timings (although that could be helpful). Our challenges with food and body are pointing to something much deeper, something occult, sometimes scary… and that is, our purpose, our calling, and our avoidance of living a life fully present, aware, and accountable.

Crippling body thoughts and a soul-sucking relationship with food shines a light on unfinished business that is inside us, which needs attention. Our lives are waiting and our emotions are trying to alert us that something needs attention. But rightfully, those emotions can seem so extremely daunting and undigestible because, well, life is not a piece of cake. Life an be mean. Life can be real tough. Especially when we believe we are dirty for complaining when "we have it all" - the “perfect” life.

My intention for this post is to add an essential ingredient into our eating conversation: what is our Calling? This by no means negates the struggle. We definitely are here to look at our food and body goals. How do we want to feel in our skins? What conversation do we want to be having with our food? How can we stop the cycle of chronic dieting and micromanaging our food choices? How can we start seeing the true beauty in life when our inner attacker is whipping us with dreadful thoughts about ourselves, our “lack of willpower”, our “patheticness”?