Short read: Your relationship to receiving

Lucy Newport • January 13, 2025

Reading time: 1 min

Originally shared as part of Inbox Reflections - short, heartfelt emails to support your binge eating recovery as a highly sensitive woman.



I have a theory that highly sensitive women who struggle with their relationships with food and their bodies have a hard time receiving. 

Receiving their sensitivity

Receiving their worth

Receiving their bodies 

Receiving nourishment

Receiving support

Receiving attention 

Receiving the moment

But I also believe that we have the greatest capacity to receive when we know how to and feel safe in doing so. 

Because being sensitive and receptive go hand in hand. 

Does this ring true for you?

If so, one of the most profound practices for you might be to simply:

1. Receive as you inhale

Receiving yourself, the moment and whatever is there for you, even if it’s uncomfortable.


2. Release as you exhale

Surrendering and letting it all completely go (this is just as important). 

This is my core practice right now, and in fact, it has been for some time. There are many times I still find receiving infinitely hard, but this little practice has benefited me in more ways than I could tell you...

I hope it serves you as much as it's served me.




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