A woman describes how she used food as emotional safety after moving to the US, believing it would never reject her. She recognized this pattern as emotional eating and worked to change the underlying belief driving it.
And I'll give you an example. One of my core beliefs is that food is safety because when I first moved to the US, as much as I wanted to be accepted and I wanted to be liked, I also felt completely out of place. I was dealing with all of these emotions and I didn't know how to manage them and I basically started to eat my feelings. And I did that because food could never reject me, food always liked me. Food always accepted me. That's a paradigm that I've had to shift over the years so that I would not continue to eat to soothe my feelings. Doing that work of dismantling the belief on the inside is the hard part, but there is a way that you can do this, and that's what I want to share with you.
