📓 What My Clients Have Taught ME About Binge Eating Recovery

[@AaliyaKhan]

Can't thank you enough. I have reclaimed my brain from the top of the croissant. I'm in the middle of finding out about my own narcisstic abuse and am bringing up two toddlers as i go through divorce. I'm anxious but still not bingeing. Thanks so much for doing so much for people like us. ❤

[@mariaelenabartesaghi6322]

You deserve 1 M subs. You are just brilliant. Thank you.

[@karinekmk9293]

I genuinely appreciate that you see your mission as letting your clients acquire their autonomy. It's the same goal as PT, but for the brain and behavior. We see PT after a surgery or an injury, to re-learn how to function again by ourselves (how to walk again, how to bend this joint again, etc). When I was younger, i was forced to see psychiatrists for A.N., but my impression was that they just wanted to make me come back every week, not to let me make some progress. I never felt as I felt with my PT (with her, I really noticed that she wanted to make me gain my mobility and physical autonomy) ! Thank you Sarah for thinking about your clients before thinking about filling your schedule !

[@nsh2764]

This spoke to my soul. I swing between the 2 extremes, leaning 75/25 towards avoidance.

[@suekonvalinkova4857]

Thank you so much for all these. they are of immense help and I truly find value in your message and experience. ♥

[@FemEngAT]

Dear Sarah, this one had me tear up (and I am all but the type for tearing up). I will watch this video again in the evening, in order to do some journalling. My first thought was, yes, I'm blocking it out, only to realize then that I'm actually overthinking. What touched me so deeply was the cycle of daily self-shaming and losing trust in oneself and one's capabilities, which you desribe. Yep. Thank you so much for the great support that you provide. Kind regards from Austria, H.

[@lenawunderlich45]

Great explained :) for me it was quiet easy to define myself as a person on the side of hyper vigilance. Makes sense why trying to become more present is leading to more stress often times.

[@DemureDelight8055]

Love your earrings, so cute. The most salient points here for me is: Becoming more present and more permissive and relaxed when needed & figuring out what you need when. - inner child work, parts work, recognizing when you’re operating on a pattern rather than taking all your emotions and thoughts as if they were true right now. - curiosity - why do you do this? This is really a strong one for me bc I do think I know why I do this. But each instance has its own catalyst of feelings and thoughts and circumstances and if I don’t inquire what happened I would never know that that binge happened bc I have an inner belief that I am alone on Saturdays bc I’m unworthy of love and that I’ll never be perfect enough to be loved. I’d never know that. But now that I do I can realize that that’s something my parents accidentally taught me and combat it with now-knowledge that ofc I am worthy of love just as I am right now :)

[@polyglotmona]

My third day of watching your videos and the third day of good food, a reasonable amount and much less thinking about food.

[@brookelowe5147]

I've struggled with binge eating for many years, to the point of gluttony. Is there anything that can help with food noise & OCD intrusive thoughts? I struggle with thinking about food 24/7 and fear that I'm eating myself to death. I just started therapy and hoping to see some positive change. In my area, central Illinois, there isn't much help or resources for people with eating disorders.

[@berritandersen288]

❤

[@AaliyaKhan]

Read her book It's amazing..there's also am audiobook she narrated on this channel

[@brookelowe5147]

@@AaliyaKhan I will definitely check it out! Thank you!

[@melitapavlinic7302]

Maybe you need to see your own family doctor or a psychiatrist to rule out other conditions that might be contributing to obsessive throughts. Any problems with blood sugar, thryroid? Sometimes these thoughts are also related to depression and generalized anxiety, talking from my own experience

[@brookelowe5147]

@@melitapavlinic7302 I've already discussed this with my family doctor to no avail. I do have issues with blood sugar, thyroid, depression, and anxiety. My doctor seems to think the Mediterranean diet is the answer to everything. She all but dismissed me when I told her I struggle with binge eating and have had this eating disorder for years. She seems to have no empathy for mental health struggles.

[@_its.christy143]

Thank you so much ❤

[@mlouw8218]

Thanks Sarah! I love hearing your thoughts and experiences ❤️ I definitely feel you on the scary anger thing! 😅 I also like what you said about about allowing space for hopelessness. Have you ever read Care of the Soul? On another note, have you got any thoughts on the power of habit? I feel like I binge for a lot of reasons, but definitely a big factor is that I’m quite a habit driven person, and I’ve been bingeing (and purging) every day for nearly ten years. A part of me can’t bear the idea of stopping in the same way that I couldn’t bear to not shower or brush my teeth, or go for a walk. It’s like I can’t get out of the deep groove, even for a day. The consequences have been getting worse and worse, and I’m even getting pretty bored, but there’s that habitual part of me that is holding on for dear life. If you have any thoughts I’d be happy to hear them ❤️

[@TheBingeEatingTherapist]

I love a bit of Thomas Moore. I have listened to Care of the Soul on Audible, but there was an audio series he did on the dark night of the soul which really spoke to me. I have been meaning to do a video on habit so I will take this as a nudge to do so ❤️

[@mlouw8218]

@@TheBingeEatingTherapist Oh cool! I’ll have to look out for the dark night of the soul series. That sounds right up my alley 🤓 and a video on habit would be wonderful! ❤️ I read Care of the Soul several years ago and it made quite an impression on me. He spends a lot of time discussing the difference between “spiritual” and “soulful”, and it made me realize that I’ve always been a super spiritual person (in the way that he uses the word), living in my mind and trying to float off and escape the earthly realm (I remember having a good chuckle when I realized that I even habitually wear really tall platform shoes 😂). In recent years I’ve begun to settle in a little bit, but I still have a long way to go when it comes to sustaining an embodied presence 🙃

[@SUEMAGENTA]

I'm on the hyper vigilant side. Thanks for your videos, Sarah 🌷🌷🌷

[@zezezep]

You are spot on

[@nsh2764]

Your last comment really struck a chord

[@suzycue9087]

Nalatraxone perhaps?

[@suzycue9087]

It' s not about my feelings, it's chemical. How to restore them?