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How I Integrate Intuitive Eating in Therapy
Are you tired of the diet industry’s endless promises of quick fixes and restrictive meal plans? Are you ready to ditch the food rules and embrace a more intuitive way of eating? Look no further than intuitive eating!
Intuitive eating is an approach to health and wellness that emphasizes tuning into your body’s natural signals of hunger and fullness. This approach is gaining popularity as an alternative to traditional diets and weight loss programs. Intuitive eating encourages a healthy relationship with food, without rigid rules or restrictions.
The principles of intuitive eating include rejecting the diet mentality, honoring your hunger, making peace with food, challenging the food police, respecting your fullness, discovering the satisfaction factor, honoring your feelings without using food, and respecting your body.
Intuitive eating also intersects with social justice issues such as weight stigma and the fat positive movement. The fat positive movement advocates for the acceptance and celebration of diverse body sizes and shapes. It challenges the idea that thinness is the only ideal body type, and promotes body acceptance as a way to improve well-being.
By rejecting the diet mentality and respecting our bodies, we can challenge societal norms and biases that perpetuate weight stigma and discrimination. This intersection of intuitive eating and social justice allows for a more holistic approach to health that considers not just physical health, but also mental and emotional well-being. In therapy, we integrate these ideas to examine the ways diet culture and healthism have impacted our views of ourselves and others.
So if you’re ready to break free from the dieting cycle and embrace a more intuitive way of eating, join us in the movement for food and body freedom! And don’t forget to bring snacks – after all, life is too short to not enjoy the foods we love.
