COPE WITH YOUR EMOTIONS WITH KINDNESS
Anxiety, loneliness, boredom and anger are emotions we all experience in life, sometimes all in one day! Each emotion has its own trigger, and each has its own appeasement. Throughout our lives, we all build individual coping toolkits, extremely personal ways we can comfort, nurture, distract or heal ourselves from complex experiences and emotions.
This principle is jam-packed with all sorts of treasure chests—we’ll learn to differentiate between emotional and backlash eating in response to deprivation; explore what’s in your own personal coping toolkit (and the role food plays within); we’ll work to dismantle the demonisation of emotional eating (thanks again, diet culture); and rekindle the intrinsic connection between comfort and food that is our natural right as human beings.
This principle is all about looking within, acknowledging what is true, and working on new ways to comfort, nurture, distract and resolve your issues (Resch & Tribole, 2021).
