In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” your host Sheryl Glick (http://sherylglick.com)
author of The Living Spirit which shares stories of awakening, spiritual
communication, healing energies miracles and a guide to soul development
and soul maturity welcomes Tricia Nelson author of Heal Your Hunger (http://healyourhunger.com)
which offers seven steps to understand and end emotional eating. Our
physical challenges most especially lead us to a greater unfolding of
our spiritual talents and gifts and offer ways to master our physical
and energetic emotional needs.
As listeners of Healing From Within have come to know over the years
that by listening to the intimate experiences and insights of my guests
there is a way to better understand and utilize events and challenges
not as problems but as gifts to explore our experiences so we may find
ways for better outcomes no matter how difficult it seems at the moment.
Improving life, enjoying life more and finding peace and contentment in
the moment is not only possible but probable with the right attitude and
set of tools to heal on a physical emotional and spiritual level.
In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” Tricia Nelson who lost fifty
pounds by identifying and healing the root causes of her emotional
eating and has spent over thirty years researching the hidden causes of
the addictive personality learning that food addiction is one of the
toughest addictions and is symptomatic of deeper issues. In twenty five
years of helping Americans upgrade their diets she has seen how many
misconceptions there are and how overweight individuals harm their
physical and emotional state of being often causing pain loneliness and
self-sabotaging views that limit their perception and potential to
thrive.
As Tricia thinks back to her childhood and remembers people and events
she provides a clue to her own self development and the interests work
and life style she is living now as an adult. Sheryl believes we are
born with goals for what we wish to explore and learn on an inner soul
level and from early on the awareness is there for us and others to
witness as it reveals itself through our challenges and often fears.
Tricia writes, “I grew up as a fat girl, which was very painful. I hated
my body. My tummy was one big roll of fat that I would scrunch up and
hold in my hands—with disgust. I imagined slicing it off in the same way
that my dad would slice the fat off the edge of a steak! I would also
fantasize about getting some kind of disease that would make me lose
weight without trying, or joining the army so I’d be forced to exercise
at Boot Camp. (I hated exercise, so this was the only way I could
imagine myself doing it.) I also had a lot of fear. I was terribly
afraid, even though I didn’t really have anything to fear from the world
around me. I grew up in a good home in Concord, Massachusetts. My
parents were happily married and provided well for us, and we traveled
and spent summers in Maine. It was all good—on the outside. But inside,
where I lived, I was hurting.
Of course, I wasn’t always aware on a conscious But under that happy
facade, I was burying pain and shame that I couldn’t talk about with
anyone. Like the sexual abuse from a relative when I was young. That was
a dark secret I kept entirely to myself. Then there was the
embarrassment over being so fat that my legs chafed when I ran, being
afraid of the dark, and masturbating compulsively whenever I was alone
in the house. I couldn’t open up to anyone about any of this. When I was
fifteen, my oldest sister told me she ate because of her emotions. I
thought that was the craziest thing I’d ever heard! I just liked food.
Yet the seed was planted, and over the next few years, I began to notice
that my relationship with food wasn’t normal.”
Despite my preoccupation with food, I did okay. I was elected president
