The more I focused on true genuine pleasure the less I felt compelled to binge.
This is because I have expanded my capacity to receive pleasure so much that the pain/pleasure combo I got from binge eating lost its appeal.
Thanks to binge eating I learned that:
1. Pleasure is a need + skill.
2. The needs we don’t meet we eat. Or numb in some other fashion.
3. Expanding my capacity for sensation gave me the safety and freedom to take food off the pedestal.
Recovery asks us to expand what we perceive as pleasurable beyond food ….and over time those more expanded experiences become the preferred sources of pleasure.
Without an expansive perception of pleasure, it’s too easy to be obsessed with food as the only source of pleasure.
My work is about expanding your capacity for pleasure so that food gets to be food again and is just one of the many pleasures in your life!
I invite my clients to have a more pleasurable recovery journey by helping them to perceive and receive all of the pleasure that is available to them right now.
So that they KNOW in their bones what truly satiates them outside of food!
