EATING OUR SADNESS
Sadness
Disappointment
Loss
Sits in our belly
Undigestible
We are feeling grief
Many different kinds of grief:
Change Grief
Normal as we knew it is lost
Disappointment lives here
Anticipatory Grief
We are heading into a storm
Insecurity lives here
Collective Grief
We’re all going through this
Belonging and isolation both live here
Each type of grief
Gnaws at our belly.
For those of us who use food
As a way to ease discomfort
As a way to
Not feel
The uncomfortable
Pain
Of loss
Remember:
It is not shameful
to seek comfort in food
It’s normal
But let’s take a moment
Before choosing
That soothing meal
To
Acknowledge
I am sad
I feel loss
I am grieving
Let that grief
Be
Just BE
Without needing it to change
And notice
Just notice
The feeling of grief
That is uniquely yours
That might not look
Like anyone else’s grief
Name it
Feel it
Ride the wave
Of grief.
And know you are not alone.
Nina Manolson
Nina@NinaManolson.com
Nina Manolson, MA, is the founder of Body-Peace®.She helps women end the war with food and body and finally feel truly at home in their body—as it is.
She is known for her deeply feminist, anti-diet, body-peace® approach. She brings her 30 years of experience as a therapist, Body-Trust® Guide and Psychology of Eating Teacher to helping women create a respectful and trusting relationship with their food and body.
Nina’s Body-Peace® work is all in service of helping people get off the diet roller-coaster, and into a compassionate and powerful way of eating & living which creates a positive long-lasting change in and with their bodies. Her courses, coaching, poems and Body-Peace APP positively change the conversation that women are having with their body.
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