I'm aware - now what?

If you've been listening to this podcast for a while, you know that I often talk about the importance of awareness and how it is the first and most important step to change.

If this is your first time listening, please listen to episode 32, which talks about how the brain works. Its primary goal is to seek pleasure, avoid pain, and use as little energy as possible. In order to change your patterns you have to become aware of them first.

Noticing our patterns, what we might be thinking in the moments before, during, and after eating, what we are feeling in our body, and the stories we tell ourselves about why we eat the way we do.

Some takeaways from this episode:

• Consider writing in a journal or a phone app your observations of the things you say to yourself. Notice them. Become aware of them. Write them down or say them out loud to somebody else.
• Once you become aware, you can choose to do something different.
• It's crucial that you don't judge or shame yourself for what you are thinking, feeling, or doing.

If you are listening to this episode when it airs live in July of 2023, I'd like to invite you to my upcoming virtual event where we are going to do a deep dive into several of these components.

It will be an interactive experience where you will walk away with a clear picture of where you are going and awareness of your nervous system, and we are going to create confidence as we go through an exercise together with your binge food. Sign up at janepilger.com/event

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