The problem is when food becomes our main source of pleasure and our main coping strategy.

I’m not going to sit here and tell you that food isn’t enjoyable. I’m a firm believer in eating enough to fuel your body and give you plenty of pleasure.

But, if you’re bingeing regularly, you’re not using food for pleasure anymore. You’re using it to numb the suffering.

The work, my friends, is looking at the that suffering. Is getting curious about that suffering. What’s really under there?

There’s something about claiming today as ‘a wasted day’ that brings us relief. Because we don’t have to feel bad (today anyway) about numbing our suffering with food. We get a day where we can utilize our best coping strategy to handle our suffering; we can deal with the pain tomorrow.

Of course, tragically, that suffering doesn’t go away; it is still there and is actually growing the more we escape and numb from it.

The diet mentality of "today is a waste, I will start again tomorrow and be perfect then” is just one big giant distraction so you don’t actually have to look in and do the work of addressing the pain and suffering stored in your body.

It’s a painful cycle that keeps you stuck. It blocks you from growth. It blocks you from healing.

So how do we get off of this cycle? What are some tangible steps we can do today to start the journey of recovery?

Listen and find out.

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