Author: Deeply Rooted
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How to Eat Without Food Rules: 7 First Steps to Food Freedom
A step-by-step beginner guide that walks a chronic dieter through her first real steps to drop the internalized food rules and rebuild trust in hunger, fullness, and satisfaction – answering the exact question a woman exhausted by the food war types into Google.
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Emotional Eating vs. Real Hunger: 10 Signs Your Feelings Are Driving Your Fork
A recognition-focused listicle that separates physical hunger from emotional hunger and names the warning signs of using food for comfort, numbing, or grounding – a shame-free first step for women who have spent years at war with their bodies.
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Your Photo Isn’t the Problem: How to Unhook From the Body-Shame Spiral When You See Yourself
A step-by-step framework: (1) name the spiral and the story behind it, (2) separate the frozen image from the body that actually lives, (3) unhook the photo from your worth, then (4) an exposure practice to rebuild, closing on the longer inner-work/body-trust journey rather than a quick fix.
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Change Is The Only Thing That Will Not Change
Today I found a reflection that I had written years ago about how I have grown through my recovery. Today as a recovered person, I am proud of both the young girl version of myself who struggles and chose to get help and the version who was able to hold the space for both grief…
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Turning Heaviness Into Grace
We’re all on our own paths. Sometimes I look around and I see others living the “normal” life. They wake up in the morning, they go to a job solely because it pays the bills, they go out for a drink with friends, they go to sleep and do it all over again. I look…
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Learning From COVID-19
If there is one good thing that has come from COVID-19, it is connection, shifts in the perception of connection and our role in the world around us. As humans we need people, we are tribal, we are pack animals at our core. The resiliency of the human race is incredible. In a time of…
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LIFE HAPPENS
I wish, for the sake of myself and all other souls that walk this earth, that life was simple. Do you remember when you were a child, and you thought that certain things were pure fact? When marriage meant happily ever after, being a grown up meant you had your life together, the future meant…
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“WHEN I GROW UP…”
We all have big dreams as kids. I dreamt of being a rockstar. As we get older those dreams become more and more realistic. There’s a progression to it all. I wanted to be a rockstar, then a “baby doctor,” then a teacher, and finally a therapist. We walk through life with goals in terms…
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TRUTHFULNESS ISN’T SAFE, BUT IT IS GOOD.
The golden rule “do not lie.” Sometimes lying can become as tempting as a snake in the Garden of Eden. I hold no judgement over that. We all lie, whether we want to admit it or not. Those of you who are sitting there telling yourself you don’t… well I have a feeling you might…
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Hello World
Hello world! Today I am showing up for myself, for you, and for anybody who is seeking out change and growth. We live in a society that instills fear and judgement in being vulnerable, about expressing our emotions, and about being human. Recently, I have been told that my gift in this world is my…