09/02/2022
👶👧👩🦳MY (BREIF) EATING STORY
⁉️As a child I was tiny, sticks for legs and arms, 8 pack- always conscious that I was smaller than my friends and always asked by family friends: “are you eating, if so, its clear not enough. Here have more!!”
🏃🏼♀️ I was super active and actually had a big appetite. This taught me to disconnect with my innate inner wisdom.
🦇 As a teenager I witnessed my friends in high-school comparing their “bat wings” (the skin which can hold precious fat on the backs of our arms) and chit-chatting about how to get rid of the fat there. I listened with shock and pure disbelief that this was something others noticed and were aware of let alone wanted to change!
❤️🩹 When I was older I heard family members speak unkindly towards their bodies. “This should be smaller” “I wish I looked like that” “if only this shrunk”. Undertones of “Im not good enough im not worthy, im not loveable”
😖These comments plus no coping skills lead me into an eating disorder. You name it- Ive had it. Over-eating and under-eating and everything in between.
💊 I over exercised, took laxatives and even used recreational drugs for a small period to minimise appetite.
🧘♀️ I discovered yoga, meditation, the power of breath when I moved out of home and found . I then did my teacher training with , studied naturopathy, psychology of eating , nutrition, exercise and lifestyle , and of course Intuitive eating
✈️ Somewhere in there I lived in Bali, traveled much of the world, opened a successful cafe for four years and had a beautiful (full of beans) bubba, Summer.