Intuitive Eating, Self-Trust, and Having Your Own Back
Kristen (she/her) is a post-abortion counselor and community mental health advocate. In addition to her education in counseling psychology, she trained as a birth doula and abortion doula and has led workshops using ritual and community-resourcing for people who have experienced abortion(s).
Connect with her here: https://www.abortionwheel.com/
Show Notes:
Ashley’s experience with intuitive eating- relationship with food and self
What is intuitive eating?
A self-care framework, relationship with self
“Making food a part of our moral identity”
How we do one thing is how we do everything?
Pregnancy loss/abortion during the holidays
Losing trust in your decision making ability
Use intuitive eating to rebuild self-trust
Deciding to have your own back
“Playing with the decisions” to give yourself leeway
Rebuilding self-trust
I can be tender with that part of me who wanted something at the time
“Part of the fear in making the decision is how you’ll talk to yourself afterwards”
Having an abortion because you are scared and couldn’t see any other choices, not because you are a bad mom
How are you using information and thoughts in your brain?
Building unconditional love for yourself
Wrapping identity into physical things
“I’m tired of having this conditional relationship with myself”
We come back to “just love yourself” because it’s vital
Slow down, find compassion, work with yourself
I’m here for me, I know how to have compassion for me, I want to have self-compassion because I matter
“I can choose the base and the foundation to be love”
Motivating self to be better vs. compassion for long term motivation
“This is just a habit thought, my brain just likes to offer me this”
What am I jumping to?
‘Is it true?’ can soften the thing that you’re jumping to
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