It’s Not About Food: What Happened To You? The Truth About Disordered Eating
About this episode
The episode discusses how disordered eating is often a manifestation of deeper issues related to trauma and safety.
Send us Fan Mail Disordered eating can look like a food issue on the outside, but we’ve learned it’s often a safety issue on the inside. When your nervous system lives in fight or flight, food can become the only language your body has left to ask for control, numbness, or relief. So we get honest about the parts people don’t post: trauma, grief, anger, guilt, and especially shame. We walk through how trauma changes the brain’s relationship with safety and why shame keeps survival patterns s...
People in this episode
Host: Amy Watson
Topics covered
- disordered eating
- trauma
- mental health
- safety
- shame
- nervous system
Keywords
- disordered eating
- trauma
- mental health
- nervous system
- shame
- control
- grief
- anger
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