Understanding what to do to heal your relationships with food and body isn’t enough.
Think of your healing journey as two separate strategies – understanding and producing.
Understanding means you consume knowledge via reading books, listening to podcasts, or watching videos.
This is a great first step, and is absolutely necessary. But it isn’t enough to transform yourself.
To fully lock in that transformation, you have to produce what you understand.
You can read about riding a bike and understand what to do. But until you produce that knowledge by getting on the bike, you’ll never actually KNOW how to ride a bike.
For example, let’s say you have an emotional eating struggle you’d like to overcome.
You can read articles about how to address this struggle. You can watch videos, listen to podcasts, or even talk to a therapist.
This process feels like you’re making progress. But unless you apply the frameworks you learn to the emotional eating event and have a new EXPERIENCE, any “transformation” remains in your head.
Experiences are what lock in what you’ve been learning.
They are what internalize the new empowering beliefs you’re trying to create surrounding your food and body.
Consuming information is passive, while producing knowledge is an active process.
To change, you have to recognize what to do and when to do it, recall the strategy you planned to use, and then take action.
If you do this right, you will have a new experience, and it’s these experiences that transform you.
So, are you just consuming information? Or are you actively applying what you learn?
Something to think about.
Talk soon…