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"Food-Addiction..."Food-Addiction EMOTIONS, FOOD AND YOU The story of food addiction is largely the story of ‘your awakening’. The supply of food from mother’s blood ceases when the umbilical cord is tied. You felt the pain of hunger and you were introduced to the first pain relieving agents – food.
Every newborn child is a born scientist continually making discoveries. Nursing mothers also discover more about themselves as they care for their wonderful little bundle of trouble and joy. Your power to suck and swallow made you at one with mother. Her heartbeat was music to you. Psycho-sexual pleasure flowed, as a mother’s reward for guiding you from hunger pain, and dependence, to ‘oneness’ and a feeling of contentment and satisfaction and sleep.
Very soon you discover play – play with mother that was all clean and wonderful until you discovered potato, gravy, peas and spoons that were a mystery until the first one found a hungry mouth. A new connection was made Food-Addiction. New connections were being made in your brain as it developed new cells at the rate of 250,000 per minute. Your adult brain would be four times larger.
Food and mother’s caring guidance balanced your pain and pleasure. You play and sleep in peace and contentment. With growing maturity you demanded more of your own space. Parents and family discovered that a crying child could not cry – ‘holler’ or ‘swaller’ – swallow food at the same time. Food was pushed onto you as a pacifier. Someone wanted to control you and your behavior.
Your emotions were quickly connected with food and control issues and your willingness to eat, or your defiance not to eat. As a born scientist, wanting to enquire about taste and feeling and power, you began to do as adults and others were doing. You discovered substances such as caffeine, beverage alcohol, all symptoms of food addiction.
Your emotional desire for independence, new relationships, significance and meaning for your life was often attached to food. Mother’s care was now a restricting power. Food and emotions and you may be an unmanageable mix.
How can you balance pain and pleasure, dis-satisfaction and contentment, frustration and fulfillment, emptiness and serenity? “Only by caring for myself and over coming food addiction”.
God grant that I accept with serenity those foods and that are good and wholesome, eat them with relish and have courage to seek fellowship and exercise, while accepting the wisdom that knows when enough is enough.
Rev. John Tully OAM has been a re-educator, helping people to overcome problems of attachment, dependency or addiction, for over 40 years. C Rev.John Tully OAM, Newlife Care INC
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