Are you using food as fuel or feeding your emotions?
Updated: Apr 10, 2022
Are you using food as fuel to feed your body or are you using food to feed your emotions?
When working to build mental health wellness, each area of your life needs to be incorporated in the promotion of a healthy lifestyle. This means it’s important to eat the right foods for mental health wellness and use the right tools to effectively deal with the daily stressors in life.
Using simple tools to self-regulate yourself during stressful moments or challenging times is important. Why? Sometimes we use drinking, eating, gambling or gaming as numbing distractors that turn you and I away from dealing with the problem. This can amplify the troubles you are already hiding from. Turning to food as a way to comfort yourself, instead of looking for a solution can be a challenge when you don’t have the correct tools to help you process what you are feeling and thinking.
I, myself, have turned to food in the past as a way to comfort and soothe the stress of everyday life or numb myself from traumatic experiences until I learned how to self - regulate.
Today, I will tell you about Self- Regulation and explain a tool that will help you gain the confidence to address the challenges and daily stressors of life.
