A short spoken piece (likely from a talk or video) about responding to overeating with self-compassion rather than shame. The speaker emphasizes awareness, choosing compassionate responses over punitive measures (e.g., starving oneself), and that the goal is not perfection but freedom and peace.
So I've noticed that it's not that we want to think the food is just going to be perfect once we get it. It's that when the food isn't perfect, when we have a situation. And I've had many of these moments where it's like, okay, I went to a party. I overate. I have a choice. And I could feel the choice. Right. Do I go into shame or do I go into compassion for myself? Oh, here we are again right now. Gosh. We. We're in the same place. Oh. But it's different. It's different because we're aware and we did do those things to take care of ourselves. And we. But we're still here, and we still over eight. Okay, what are we going to do? Well, I know what we're not going to do. We're not going to starve ourselves and do all the things we used to do. Right. So that brings us back into the momentum of freedom and peace again. Yeah. So it's not about being perfect.
