
340: Sexual Abuse / Emotional Eating, Part 2 of 2
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"I feel better than other people that always seem to be tortured by how much they ate and you know. So it numbs your feelings," she says. "It helps you to sort of show your rebellious side and you don't have to adhere to the rules or be deprived, right?"
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Sexual Abuse / Emotional Eating Personal Work with Orly, Part 2 of 2 Last week, you heard the first half of our live session on Emotional Eating, featuring Orly. Today, you will hear the second half and exciting conclusion and follow-up on that therapy session. A = Assessment of Resistance (previously called Paradoxical Agenda Setting) Orly did want help, but there were a number of directions / conceptualizations we could have pursued, including:
- Working on the distorted negative thoughts that were triggering intense negative feelings and robbing Orly of self-esteem. This would involve the use of the Daily Mood Log.
- Working on relationship conflicts with the Relationship Journal.
- Working on the addiction to binging, using the Habit and Addiction Log and the Triple Paradox if you click HERE.
- Exposure work to help Orly overcome her Emotophobia. That’s a term I coined that means “fear of strong emotions.”
- I need to take care of myself because in truth I really am unlovable.
- I’m not entitled to feel traumatized because he did not hurt me.
- If I get excited or upset, and I don’t eat, I might go crazy.
- If I feel strong emotions, I’ll end up rejected and alone.
- Absolutely superb training! Thank you, Orly for the gift of your amazing personal work. And, thank you David and Jill for another magnificent teaching and healing session.
- I love the interplay between David and Jill. I loved Jill's empathy. I was so happy to get to know Orly better, and felt so close to her after the session. I was touched by her candor and disclosing about her abuse and life experiences.
- Unbelievable session, more like a miracle. A lifelong deep emotional issue to flow towards resolution in a couple of hours happens only in TEAM therapy.
- This was so very real; Orly was so open and insightful and vulnerable. Jill's identification of the choice point as to what to work on, and specifically, the option to focus on emotophobia--the anxiety around feeling intense emotions--and hence, exposure/flooding as treatment, struck me as so great, so much deeper than I'd initially expected. Jill's explanation that she focusses on the thoughts that drive the behavior in the HAL encapsulates it well.