Body Image & Self-Worth
For highly sensitive women, body image challenges can feel particularly intense due to our ability to deeply process and pick up on subtleties in social messages about our bodies and our worth.
These resources help you to see your body and self-worth in a new light, experiencing more acceptance as part of your binge eating recovery journey.
Discover how low self-worth drives the binge restrict cycle and why Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) can be particularly vulnerable. Learn to reclaim your innate worth.
Discover how shifting your thoughts instead of forcing change can transform your relationship with food, your body, and your sense of worth.
Lucy Newport joins the Worthy of Love Podcast to explore high sensitivity, self-worth, and binge eating recovery for highly sensitive women.
Explore the difference between innate worth and self-worth, and how reconnecting to your inherent value can support your binge eating recovery as a highly sensitive woman.
What happens when you stop exercising to lose weight and start moving for joy? A short reflection on movement, pressure, and what feels good in binge eating recovery.
What happens when a former vegan starts eating animal products again? A personal story about reverence, nourishment, and food freedom in binge eating recovery from Binge Free & Worthy.
If you didn’t feel unworthy, how might your relationship with food change? A gentle reflection for highly sensitive women in binge eating recovery from Binge Free & Worthy.
Reading / watching time: 19 mins I recently received this heart-opening question from a sensitive woman in recovery from binge eating - and I know she’s not alone. She asked… “I want to find love but have been holding myself back because of fear of rejection as my body is larger than I’d like it to be. The way you talk about being a highly sensitive person really resonates and can see how I use food for comfort and also as a buffer to protect me from other people and situations. I’ve also tried so many times to lose weight but I know now it just makes my binge eating worse, and I’m now heavier than ever. I’ve got to the point where I don’t want to wait any longer for love, but I’m scared that I’ll like a guy but he’ll be put off by my body or I’ll have to tell a potential boyfriend about my binge eating and again, that will put him off. Any advice?” So in this video, I explore what it means to open yourself up to love when your relationship with your body feels complicated. Whether you’ve struggled with binge eating, body image, or the fear that you have to “fix yourself” before being loved, I hope this supports you deeply.
Reading / watching time: 19 mins This is a question that Ester emailed me directly and because it’s something that often comes up further along in binge eating recovery journeys, I asked if she’d mind me sharing it and my answer with you all. Thanks for agreeing Ester! She asked: “I strongly feel the wish to lose weight now that I’ve gained food freedom and I would really love to hear your experience about this. Do you still face the desire of being thinner, do you have any tips to handle it or do you suggest to just let it go and provide the unconditional love and appreciation that is needed underneath?” So in this video I share with you my most recent experience of wanting to lose weight, a couple of things for you to work with in your own journey and some words of wisdom from Ester…
“I am so grateful for your emails which have been helping me and other women so much! I love that they are consistent little-effort big-impact reminders which often come unexpectedly. I think that leads me to have important A-ha insights in a daily context (and is also why I always have to come back to them later when I am home, to write them down in my notebook!).”
Ester Panizza
Inbox Reflections subscriber
lucy@bingefreeandworthy.com