I feel like there's the noise of all these external signals of what we should be eating and our own inner diet mentality. Another problem with hearing those soft inner voices is that we have to actually be paying attention to them in our lives. Look at your whole life, not just the food. Food issues are about so many more things because this is really a holistic approach. So it's almost like the body is the child and the wise mind and the respectful actions are the parents.
Everyone has a view about what you should eat and how much. We're so bombarded with fad diets, fasting plans and nutritional advice that we can bounce from one way of eating to another without stopping to think: "What do I want to eat?"
Psychotherapist Andrea Wachter endured years of disordered eating and obsessing about her weight, until she decided to heed her inner voice and what her body wanted to consume. She explains to Dr Laurie Santos how so-called intuitive eating can free us from both diets and overeating.
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