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Emotional Eating · Nervous System · Inner Child · Shame
Emotional Eating — The Body's Comfort Seeking
Emotional eating is not weakness — it is the nervous system seeking the fastest available route to regulation. Food activates the parasympathetic system; in childhood, food was often love. The inner child who learned this equation is still making the choices. The shame spiral that follows maintains the cycle.
Nervous SystemInner ChildShame SpiralSelf-Regulation
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Psychosomatic · Sarno · TMS · The Body That Speaks
Somatic Symptoms — When the Body Carries What the Mind Cannot
Headaches, back pain, IBS, chronic fatigue — when the body speaks what the mind has not been permitted to say. John Sarno's tension myoneural syndrome, the neuroscience of psychosomatic symptoms, and why "it's in your head" is both wrong and more true than medicine has traditionally acknowledged.
TMSSarnoChronic PainPsychosomatic
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Body Image · Self-Perception · Shame · Early Messages
Body Image — The Mirror That Lies
How we see and relate to our body is rarely about the body. Body image is shaped by early relationships, cultural messages, shame and the gap between who we were told we should be and who we are. The body becomes the external proxy for the internal relationship with the self.
Body ImageEarly WoundsShameSelf-Compassion
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Shame · Self-Regulation · The Cycle · Brené Brown
The Shame Spiral — The Engine That Maintains Everything
Shame is not the solution to self-soothing behaviours — it is their primary fuel. Every coping strategy produces shame, which creates the dysregulation that restarts the cycle. Understanding why shame is the opposite of healing is the beginning of actual change.
ShameBrené BrownSelf-CompassionThe Cycle