Today’s topic is called ‘thieves of joy.’ You might be familiar with the saying that comparison is the thief of joy. And if you’ve ever experienced jealousy or envy, you will understand how joy-sucking comparison can be. I want to talk about comparison, but I also want to talk about the other thief of joy, and that’s judgement.

And the reason I want to talk about these thieves of joy on a binge eating podcast is because comparison and judgement are actions that don’t serve our lives. And so much of binge eating recovery is about healing our relationships with ourselves. Acting in ways that aren’t in alignment with our truest selves, our souls, is often a rooted source of our binge eating behavior. Acting in ways that we don’t genuinely want to act is one majorly disruptive way we damage our relationships with ourselves. Now remember, a ‘healed relationship with yourself’ isn’t a destination, it’s not a state of being that we reach. It’s continuous, it’s flowing. The more we learn more about ourselves, the more we uncover some of the pain, some of the disconnect that exists. And healing our relationship with ourselves doesn’t mean getting to a place where we’re happy all the time. It’s more of being able to access our truest self, our inner core, our soul, so that we can show up (both internally and externally) in the world in a way that’s true, while loving ourselves when we don’t show up authentically; loving ourselves when we fall short of what is true for us.

Typically, we often harbor these disconnecting feelings and actions and first, don’t realize that we have them so we stay in the dark and block self-awareness, and then, after so much self-denial and shielding, we binge eat. Often when we binge eat, we don’t even know why we’re doing it. We just think ‘oh, I must just really like food.” But binge eating is a way to soothe and comfort ourselves. When we don’t look under the hood, when we don’t lift the veil of confusion and begin to understand ourselves more, we won’t know what’s there. That self-disconnect is what drives binge eating for so many of us.

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