Ep 39: Retrain Your Brain to Feel Safe Around Food
Nov 3, 2022
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Simone Albert, founder of Food Allergy Counselling, discusses retraining your brain to feel safe around food. Topics include anxiety's impact on food reactions, physical manifestations of anxiety, self-compassion, stress response, and the mind-body connection in food sensitivities.
Fear impacts food reactions, leading to dietary restrictions affecting nutrition.
Recognizing symptoms triggered by brain's threat perception and re-teaching processes are crucial.
Deep dives
Understanding Condition Food Sensitivities and Food Trust
Breaking out of the Food Avoidance and Sensitivity Trap involves rebuilding body trust and softening Condition Food Sensitivities. These sensitivities are learned physical reactions to food. Practical strategies explored in each episode aim to offer a fresh perspective on food sensitivities and enhance quality of life.
Retraining the Brain to Feel Safe Around Food
Simone Albert shares insights on the intersection of anxiety and food reactions, highlighting how fear can lead to dietary restrictions that impact nutrition. Recognizing symptoms triggered by the brain's threat perception is crucial. Strategies include connecting with physical anxiety manifestations and practicing deep breathing to regulate emotions.
Dissociating Anxiety and Food Reactions for Better Management
The challenge lies in distinguishing between anxiety and food reactions, often intertwined and exacerbating each other. Educating individuals on gradual brain re-teaching processes and dissociating symptoms from triggers aids in managing Condition Food Sensitivities. Embracing a slow exposure approach to fearful stimuli enhances tolerance zones and fosters behavioral change over time.
Retraining your brain is a common buzzword these days. But what exactly does it mean and how does it apply to food sensitivities? Simone Albert will share her insights on the overlap between fear and food reactions and how to change these automatic reactions. Simone is the principle counsellor and founder of Food Allergy Counselling in Australia. She's a registered counsellor, registered nurse, author and mum of two teenagers living with allergies. She provides support, guidance and evidence-based strategies and techniques to families and individuals navigating the psychological life transition that comes with a new chronic condition diagnosis. Her book Beyond the Allergy Diagnosis is available through Amazon. It is an exceptionally good book and I would recommend it to anyone living with anaphylactic food allergy.
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