Food Won't Fix This
I can’t tell you how many humans I have spoken with over the last several weeks who have described turning to food as a primary method of managing right now stress.
Managing a stress that no human on this planet has experienced before.
Managing a stress that is laying low underneath all of the other stresses that life still sends our way.
Managing a stress that cannot be eliminated until we enter the after-all-of-this-phase.
To be honest, I’ve had a very hard time connecting to body-based hunger sensation in the last several weeks.
My body is not communicating hunger sensations frequently. This feels odd. I am accustomed to my body telling me several times a day that I need to eat. And the messages are not uniform.
My “time for breakfast,“ message is different from my “you’re hangry, eat a morning snack,“ signal and is different from my “boy, am I tired,“ afternoon message.
In this moment, I’m getting none of them.
And acknowledging my privilege here, I am eating anyway. I am eating so that I can show up for my clients, for my partner, for you. I’m eating so that I can feel well while I simultaneously feel more drained than I can recall ever feeling.
I am lucky. I am working from my home. I won’t leave my house for another month, when I get my next infusion. I am appreciating my partner doing all the things for me.
Depending on where you live in the world, this virus is closer or further away from you. My degrees of separation from it are getting smaller.
People I love are being treated. People I love are recovering at home. People I love are being made to make decisions about living arrangements. People I love are losing jobs, homes, and security.
If you’re not interested in food, you still need to eat it. If you are using food to cope by means of any eating disorder behavior, eating with structure is still helpful. Please be gentle. You’re so human.
Please let yourself eat.
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