Is Dieting for Dummies? [Page 2]

by Sarah Zitin

EMOTIONS:

Everyone has emotions. I am sometimes happy, sad, frightened, angry, frustrated—you name it, just like all of us. Life can be very challenging and sometimes we can lose control, faith, hope and perspective. That is why we are called “human” beings. And whatever we are feeling at any given time is just what it is: what we are feeling. Not right or wrong. As long as we don’t hurt anyone with our feelings, or impose them on someone, or “dump” them on anyone—( I know a lot of dumpers!), it is okay to FEEL.

I am NOT a psychiatrist. I am a healer/Chinese Herbalist/health care worker. But I have studied enough psychology to know that we have a responsibility to ourselves to find a way to engage with our feelings in a mature and positive way. EATING our feelings away is not positive and not responsible. I do not take my emotions out on my body, and if sometimes I feel the urge to do so, I tell myself “no.” Only I can create my own reality and make choices that serve me.

I realize that some people have addictions and emotional disorders which dictate how they make choices which are not usually healthy or productive. And there is HELP out there for you-- lots of help. And it doesn’t always cost a fortune to get that help. It doesn’t mean your life will change over night or that you will be miraculously healed. It means that it is all a PROCESS, and that we take one step and one day at a time and we eventually find, if we are determined, that we feel better as we go along. Most of us… Unless there is a true need for medication due to chemical imbalances or illness. The moral of the story is that FOOD is not the answer to emotional health. FOOD is the answer to physical health and also is, in fact, part of what MAKES us healthy if we know how to EAT.

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