Reconnect with Food®

Tuesday’s Reflection Question: Spirituality

Beverly Price — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:33:17 +0000

Are you devoted to a particular spiritual path? If not, do you feel a need to find one? Have you found surrogates to be devoted to? If so, list and evaluate your relationship to them.

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Family Food Beliefs

Megan Lynn Smith — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:46:41 +0000

What food beliefs, rituals and patterns did you inherit from your family or learn from friends, significant others, or the media, etc.? Describe the food beliefs/rituals within yourself that you would like to change, strengthen and/or develop and would like to pass on to loved ones, family or significant others.

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What is your definition of healing and recovery?

Megan Lynn Smith — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:03:46 +0000

Define “healing” and “recovery”. What relationships in your life require healing? How does that parallel your relationship with food in terms of healing?

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What would you do?

Megan Lynn Smith — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:04:10 +0000

Just recently I was in a clothing store trying on a few items. In the dressing room next to me, I could hear a mother and daughter talking about how they needed to go on diets to lose weight, and how the mother would like to lose enough weight so that she could wear the same clothes as her daughter.

I didn’t see the two of them outside of the dressing room, but part of me desperately wanted to tell them that they are beautiful just the way they are.

Have you ever encountered a situation like this? What did you do? Has someone ever commented on you saying you want to lose weight or fit into a different size? How did it make you feel?

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Are you honest with yourself?

Megan Lynn Smith — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:16:04 +0000

Are you honest with yourself and do you know yourself? Do you sometimes misrepresent the truth? If so, why?

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Are you critical of others?

Megan Lynn Smith — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:31:52 +0000

Are you critical of others? Do you need to blame others as a way of protecting yourself?

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How do you let the scale define you?

Megan Lynn Smith — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:49:13 +0000

When you step on a scale, what does the number that shows say to you? How do you let the numbers on the scale define you?

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Do you feel selfish?

Megan Lynn Smith — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:45:04 +0000

When some people are suffering, they tend to reach out and try to help others rather than helping themselves. Sometimes it is easier to focus on other people’s issues rather than our own. Do you ever feel selfish because you want to change your life and focus on yourself? Do you feel selfish for seeking treatment for an eating disorder, or trying to get your family to eat healthier because you want to be healthier?

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Are you a controlling person?

Megan Lynn Smith — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:07:03 +0000

Are you a controlling person? Do you engage in power plays in your relationships with food, yourself, individuals or material goods?

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Willpower

Megan Lynn Smith — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:31:25 +0000

What is your definition of “willpower” when it comes to food? What makes you lose control of your own willpower? Is your willpower, in relation to food, on the surface or does it go deeper?

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