What Emotional Eating is Really About
For me, emotional eating is about a lack of love. Underneath layers of fat, self-flagellation and self-hatred, there’s a gaping hole, a void that no amount of food can fill up. So you eat and eat and eat and still feel empty.
You try to numb down that pain with food, because in my experience, emotional eating boils down to one core wounding: feeling unloveable.
The child in you still feels bewildered: why couldn’t they love me? What’s wrong with me? You start feeling out of control because your strategies to get attention don’t seem to get you the love that you’re craving.
Food becomes one thing that you can control. Whether consuming too much or abstaining from it, it’s a method of control in the circumstances where you had no say. Perhaps you had to live through your parents’ divorce, bullying at school or some sexual violation. Focusing on food had made life manageable somehow.
These patterns exist for a good reason. Getting rid of the symptoms by dieting or exercise doesn’t make the pain go away.
Until you heal the cause of the problem, you’ll continue to self-destruct through your food consumption or any other addictions.
I have a solution.
It’s called End Emotional Eating. www.gularavincent.co.uk/end-emotional-eating
This course is an act of love. It was born out of my own journey with weight loss. I share insights and healing that changed me from the inside out (irrespective of my weight).
And if you join by 25 October. you can save £207 and buy the course for £333 (six month payment plan of £65 is available also).
Join End Emotional Eating course here: www.gularavincent.co.uk/end-emotional-eating I promise, you won’t regret it.
You'll be able to access the recordings of the 2023 live round; 30-day Safety Mindset self-study course and 5-module Reclaim Your Feminine Power home study programme.
P.S. I have two masterclasses left this year, which address different layers of this topic. As things stand, I'm not planning on offering these 3-hour experiences next year, so this may be your chance to join me live.
1. Heal Your Addiction to Struggle & Suffering on 24 October. I don’t know about you, but dieting has caused me an enormous amount of struggle & suffering. Loosing weight became the goal, not enjoying the body that I had, even when I only weighed 53 kilos. https://www.gularavincent.co.uk/free-from-struggle
2. Heal Patterns of Self-Neglect on 21 November. In my experience, emotional eating is caused by neglect. If you were loved the way you needed it, you wouldn’t have resorted to using food for comfort. https://www.gularavincent.co.uk/heal-self-neglect
Warmest wishes,
Gulara