𝐌𝐘 𝐀𝐃𝐇𝐃 𝐈𝐒 𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆
It’s a train station
A train constantly leaving the station
Actually 10 trains, leaving
All at the same time
Going different directions
That’s her
The adhd brain
Creative
Thinking
Associating
Linking ideas
Feelings
Images
Facts
So much stimulation
All at once
It’s a lot
For her
Exhausting
She wants to stop
Slow down the trains
Stop the departures
So she eats.
While she watches Netflix
Checks her phone
Listens to music
Calls her friend
Makes another to-do list
All at the same time
She eats
Aching to ease the train schedule
She keeps eating
Hoping for
Release
For just a moment
But she’s not really soothed at all
She doesn’t even notice
That she ate
She keeps eating
Sometimes
She forgets to eat
Medication disconnect her
From hunger
She eats
Because she’s starving
And can’t stop
Then a new
Familiar train departs
The shame and blame train
Whizzing along
Blaring
“I did it wrong again!
Why can’t I get this eating thing right?”
She blames her brain
Shames her belly
That train is going nowhere
In the distance
Another train gains steam
A full service train
Support
Self-compassion
A train that sees her brain’s brilliance
It’s time for her to step aboard.
~ Nina Manolson
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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