What is Intuitive Eating?
Let’s begin by clarifying what it is not. It is not saying that when you crave 13 chocolate bars you need chocolate. It’s learning what the craving may be telling you. Intuitive eating is learning to interpret the message the craving is sending. Have you ever noticed the connection between where you are on your life’s path and your behavior with food? Your body’s physical sensations are your inner voice sending you messages. Food has a remarkable way of connecting us to those feelings or disconnecting us from our physical and emotional selves. The Emotional/Physical Connection Early in our practice, neither we nor our clients understood the connection between where they were on their life paths and their behavior with food. Even their best attempts to change food habits did not succeed until they looked at the link between their bodies and their emotional and spiritual lives. The reason: Experiencing the emotional and spiritual parts of ourselves causes biochemical changes in our bodie
