Love Yourself Through Chaos

Love Yourself Through Chaos - Interview with Leslie Davis Calming the Chaos welcomes Leslie Davis, Author of “You Can’t Eat Love,” a book that describes how loving yourself through the chaos of life can help you transform your relationship with food. Leslie introduces herself as a wife and Mom who at one point was going through a hard time in her life. “I was either going to continue going down a not very good path or I was going to make a change” Made a decision that I would be the very best me I could possibly be, which meant that I would be healthy physically, mentally and emotionally It was a lot of hard work! When we face the chaos, we don’t know what’s in store for us, we simply move through it Kids in the playroom: Picking up one thing at a time and dealing with things one thing at a time “Swiss-cheesing” is taking tiny bites and celebrating the wins you make, and move forward What do you do when it’s just too much and you want to give up? 1. Pause…take a deep breath 2. Ask: “What is one thing I can do right now?” (Changing habits and thoughts) 3. Celebrate it when you complete something, however small it may seem Ways to celebrate: • Say to yourself, “Yay! You did it!” • Give yourself a treat or an experience you enjoy • Affirmations • Encouraging yourself • Talking to yourself like a best friend would talk to you • Send a card to yourself from yourself and send it to yourself “I was using food as my drug of choice.” “I used food to numb pain.” Eating was used to relieve the anger and tension and other feelings within herself, which led to shame “I had to learn to name my emotions and not be afraid to sit with my emotions.” “I had a my-self sized hole in my heart, and I was filling it with food” “When I learned to love myself, talk to myself and started being kind to myself, the need for the drug of choice started easing up.” “There are still times when I find myself going to food for comfort. But I catch myself and ask myself, ‘What is really going on here?’ And then I