Mindful Eating by Jan Chozen Bays

Author:Jan Chozen Bays
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2017-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

These are stories not just of unsatisfied physical hunger but also of unsatisfied heart hunger. Food and love, which are often wedded in our minds, become traumatically bonded when parents deprive a child of both caloric and emotional nutrition.

Because her experience of deprivation occurred earlier in life, when she had fewer coping skills, and because it involved guilt over not being able to relieve the suffering of her little brothers and sisters mixed with anger at her immature parents, Lydia’s eating patterns are more likely to be fueled by strong reactivity, an underlying vow never to be without food again. She might be more likely to gorge when food is available, more likely to urge food on those she loves, more likely to stockpile food. Because Erika was physically hungry as an adult, when she was able to talk herself through a temporary and even noble situation in medical school, she may have a less powerful reactive pattern. She might find herself eating seconds when she isn’t really hungry or taking home in her briefcase the little bag of pretzels she didn’t eat on the airplane.

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