Short reflection: Past lives & food scarcity
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Originally shared as part of Inbox Reflections - my honest, heartfelt emails to support your binge eating recovery as a highly sensitive woman.
Earlier, I found myself pondering something:
Why is it that some people can restrict food or cut out entire food groups with seemingly little drama, while others end up struggling deeply, even developing binge eating (or bulimia) through restriction?
As I did, I had the thought - half joking to myself - that perhaps those of us who struggle do so because we had to deal with times of food scarcity in our past lives.
And I remembered that the one “past life memory” I have (I did a past life regression with one of my teachers a few years ago) was of me, farming my families land and reassuring my little brother that we were going to have enough food, whilst thinking very differently and worrying about how we were going to eat.
I hadn’t until that point connected the dots between that “memory” and my own relationship with food.
Now whether that was a glimpse into a past life (!), or my subconscious giving me a story, I don’t know - but I find it quite telling!
What may be more likely is that those of us who struggle had a moment, or multiple moments in childhood where we felt like our need for nourishment wasn’t going to be met, and so that set up a track within ourselves where a lack of food = danger. Even if we know on another level that we as adults have access to food when we need it.
Again, I don’t know for sure, and we’ve all had our own experiences with food, scarcity, and safety…
What I do know, however, is that it’s important we;
- Let go of diets and restrictive eating patterns
- Eat regular meals and snacks
- Eat until we’re comfortably full
- Choose foods that are satisfying to us
- Tend to our nervous systems
All to help create this sense of safety and security within ourselves around food 💗
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