Food Stress |
Food Stress |
Eating
Do you feel anxious or stressed around eating? Do plans or worries about food and eating take up a lot of space in your mind? Do you feel guilt or shame after eating? Are you fearful of how your eating behaviors are affecting your body? Are your eating behaviors getting in the way of living a life that feels true to who you are?
- Up to date, compassionate and effective care
- Integrated approach based in neuroscience, genetic research, trauma focused therapy and social justice
- Respect for any person in any body with any type of eating struggles
Why do people struggle with Eating? People struggle when they get thrown off balance with eating as a result of:
- Fear-based and judgmental cultural messages around food and bodies
- Diets
- Sensory aversions to foods
- Accidental energy deficit or weight loss from an illness, medical treatment or new exercise routine
- Having to eat in overstimulating or overwhelming social situations
- Violence toward people based on the color, gender, ability or shape of their body
- Family conflict or abuse at mealtimes
- Lack of consistent access to food in childhood or as an adult
- GI distress after eating
- Medical issues, medications or medical treatments that impact appetite or digestion or body size
- Sleep issues that alter metabolic functioning
- Conflicting cultural messages around eating
- Pressure to eat in certain ways to optimize athletic performance.
Eating Struggles |
Eating Struggles |
Patterns |
Patterns |
What happens when a person is thrown off balance with food?
- Patterns of avoidance with food
- Constant mental calculations with food
- Binge eating
- Purging
- Using exercise to compensate for eating
- Rituals around eating
- Rigidity or fixed habits around eating
- Being fixated on food and regularly eating past comfort
What will help me to feel better with food?
- Understand what has thrown your eating off balance
- Understand what’s keeping you in a state of distress with food
- Ask how you want to feel around food and eating
- Practice new patterns of eating
- Get as much support as you need to be able to actually make changes with your eating
- Find resources for you to feel safer in your body and less alone in your experiences
- Sit together in the reality of what it’s like for you to navigate food and body within your family, social circle, and culture.
- Help to manage any issues surrounding the eating patterns such as trauma, anxiety, social disconnection, or depression
- Help and guidance for the parents, spouses and loved ones of those who have eating disorders
Feel Better |
Feel Better |