I have so many ideas, so many blogs, so many thoughts, racing through my head all the time. I was feeling overwhelmed with figuring out how and where to share the multiple facets of my personality and I realized, they all really fall under this category, because normal eating or intuitive eating is about so much more than food. In fact, the food issues are what prompted me to seek out help and the help I got was not even really about food. First it was about feeling and managing emotions. Over time, it became about finding a life I could love, discovering myself, really.
We are all born into a world where we have certain challenges. And we find ways to cope with those challenges, many times they aren't very healthy. As we grow older, those unhealthy skills we developed start to affect our adult life in ways we don't like. For example, eating to cope and becoming overweight.
Becoming mentally healthy meant putting those skills under a microscope, deciding if I still needed them (I didn't) and then going through the process of finding healthier ways to handle challenges.
As an adult I have so many more tools and resources so those unhealthy skills and coping mechanisms can be left behind, packed up and lovingly shoved out to the open sea. They did me a good service when I needed them, and I did need them, but can now be set free to make way for something new, something healthy.
It's a new world and it is a little scary. Scary to let go of those things that got me through some very tough times. But on the other side must be something more. A world I can't even imagine. And the best part is that I still have it to discover. I get to discover who I am, what I like, what I love, what I dislike, and it's all about me. It's not about anyone else in my life. I am an adult, I get to decide.
So that is what I will post here.
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