Recovery Nuggies: October
Sharing some nuggets of wisdom for those in recovery.
Hello!
Sorry I’m a few days late, but I still wanted to get around to sharing October’s Recovery Nuggies - a list of statements that made my clients say “Can you write that down.”
Sugar is our bodies preferred source of energy, but it’s also the most fleeting.
Principles of nutrition are founded in science, but if you see these rules as dogma you won’t be able to see how your body and food evolved together to create them.
It’s easier to find what’s within your control once you accept what’s outside of your control.
It’s a principle of nature: Rigidity makes you tolerate less. Flexibility helps you tolerate more.
Why are we expecting to be in complete control of our bodies when they were designed by nature? And took millions of years to evolve?
Another thought I’ve been having about ED’s lately is that the behaviors serve an evolutionary purpose, but the ways in which we interpret that purpose is based on and reinforced by societal pressures and norms.
For example, in the case of Anorexia Nervosa - it makes a ton of sense for the malnourished brain to be hyper-fixated on the safety, palatability, and quantity of food. Rationing and hoarding food can help make food last longer in times of famine.
In the case of binging disorders - it makes a ton of sense for the nutritionally deprived brain to seek out as much food as possible to restore it’s energy stores as quickly as possible.
Maybe these disorders developed for a reason, but our conscious interpretation is impacted by how they serve us in the modern industrialized world.