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Feel Good Friday! "Fixing the issue..."
Hello! A client said something a few years ago that struck me as so simple, yet so brilliant, that I've never forgotten it.
We were working on the issue of emotional eating and handling cravings. She'd made some progress, but was at an event where someone clearly was sick, and she was trying to keep her distance. She described a feeling many of us know well, where you feel like you're breathing in contaminated air, and all you want to do is escape so you don't get sick yourself! But it was an event she couldn't easily just jump out of.
She was finally able to leave, and the distress/discomfort was contributing to a lot of food cravings - really powerful ones. She managed to get home, change clothes, take a shower, and get a warm hug from her fiance, and then she felt relaxed and calm.
She managed without eating the fast food she was craving so badly. We talked about what that would have done for her, had she given in (she concluded: nothing). Then we talked about what she DID need, which was to get away from someone ill, feel clean, and feel safe.
When I asked her takeaway, she said what I will always feel is a mic dropper of an observation:
"𝙁𝙞𝙭𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙭𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙤𝙙."
That's going to be the case, 100% of the time. We get better and better about strategies for fixing the issue the longer we do the work, and the better we get at creating a little bit of space between the urge and the action.
It's why we're here!
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Feel Good Friday! "Fixing the issue..."
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