Posted @withrepost • @chr1styharrison Eating is a totally natural source of comfort. Our brains

Posted @withrepost • @chr1styharrison Eating is a totally natural source of comfort. Our brains are wired to be calmed and soothed by food. Eating to help ourselves feel better shouldn’t be pathologized—in fact, compared with some other forms of coping, eating is incredibly benign. —————————————————————————————Diet culture doesn’t see it that way, though. Diet culture’s system of beliefs conflates thinness with health and moral virtue, and shames us for using food to cope. When we internalize those beliefs and start shaming ourselves, we add more pain on top of what was already a painful situation (i.e. whatever made us turn to food for comfort in the first place). We pile on, instead of having compassion for ourselves and acknowledging that we’re doing the best we can. —————————————————————————————But what if we stopped shaming ourselves, and stopped buying into diet culture’s moralistic ideas about “emotional eating”? What if we embraced eating for comfort as one tool in our coping-skills toolkit, and made peace with it? Yes, adding other tools to that toolkit is important, too, because at some point we all have needs that food can’t entirely meet (like, say, the need for sleep or the need for human connection). But we need to acknowledge that when we turn to food for comfort, we’re caring for ourselves—and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, no matter what diet culture tells you. —————————————————————————————Thank you Judith Matz for this quote :) Download the latest episode of Food Psych today!———————————————————————————And if you’re ready for a deeper dive into all things anti-diet, come check out my intuitive eating online course at christyharrison.com/course ❤️—————————————————————————————#haes #intuitiveeating #antidiet #riotsnotdiets #effyourbeautystandards #losehatenotweight #lifebeyonddieting #thelifethief #bodyposi #bodypositive #bopo #foodpsychpod #foodphttps://www.instagram.com/p/B11NE9ijmKvwjcyz7OCRgdC4n29Rn91M9H_mQU0/?igshid=q263ogqcx5c1 -- source link

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