Short read: Binge eating recovery for your spirit

Lucy Newport • February 13, 2024

Reading time: < 1 min
Originally shared as part of Inbox Reflections - honest, heartfelt emails to support your binge eating recovery as a highly sensitive woman.


Compared to the infinite stream of love and bliss you’re open to with a single conscious breath, grasping for pleasure from food feels like begging for crumbs. 


I have forgotten this fact countless times, and I absolutely will continue to.

But when I feel the little nudge within me and I take that breath, it all comes flooding back.


Here, there is no need to seek pleasure from a moment with food (though eating
with this conscious awareness is total magic). 


There is no need to change myself because I am already entirely whole and worthy. 


And there is no need to numb from my experience because I know I am so supported in being with it all. 


This is why I practise; so that I can more easily remember.

And this is why I share; to help you remember too.



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