6 Steps to Eliminating Food Anxiety
When it comes to eliminating food anxiety, it’s first important to understand what food anxiety truly is. Food anxiety is the feeling you get when you’re surrounded by food or when you get a craving for food.
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Now this craving for food with food anxiety differs from hunger because in food anxiety there’s this energy of urgency that arises from deep within yourself. This energy has physical sensations that accompany it like a headache or a more rapid heartbeat. The cause of this energy of urgency could be from a number of things, whether it’s because of a relationship with food in the past, certain anxieties that might be present within the environment, to feelings that we might be aware or unaware of.
Either way, this energy is there because it’s trying to tell us that there’s something within ourselves that needs attending to.
There are 6 steps to eliminating food anxiety, as explained more in-depth in the video above.
Acknowledging it’s anxiety.
Grounding yourself through breathwork.
Accepting & allowing that the sensations you’re experiencing are there and acknowledge they’re linked to emotional eating.
Ask yourself what it is you’re unwilling to feel.
What is it that the feeling needs most to feel safe and to feel taken care of.
Resource that feeling for yourself through gratitude, love and kindness.
These steps can help conquer food anxiety and that energy of urgency. Instead of obsessing over and managing the food we eat, we can redirect that energy into things that help us achieve or aspirations or into our relationships. These steps allow us to be with the discomfort without us having to abandon ourselves.
