“Friday mornings are my sacred mornings.”
Fear and anxiety over missing some deadline or some appointment used to drive Jackie (one of my coaching clients, not her real name), to emotional eating. I hear this often! Heck, I regularly overate when I was anxious that something would fall through the cracks.
Recently Jackie told me she has created “space” in her week to do “big picture” planning. Now, she schedules an appointment with herself every Friday morning to look at the week that just past…and at the week coming up. She calls this her “sacred” time. By scheduling and honoring this commitment to herself, she has eliminated her old nagging, anxious feeling that she was letting stuff slide and that she’d pay for it later on.
” I just know my week will be better as a result…”
I just freed up [private_membership circle]a day and a half each week to write. After I launched the A Weigh Out Membership Circle, and my writing duties increased, I found myself writing into the wee hours of the night and morning…not a good thing for my sleep habits or my recovery! So I stepped back and looked at my desired outcomes. I want to write (I love writing) and I want my nights and weekends free. I don’t want to feel any guilt or anxiety if I choose to veg out watching a DVD in the evening. So, what can I do to be effective? Schedule writing time during my weekdays and protect it. This is self-care!
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Ellen Shuman is a Life Coach who specializes in emotional and binge eating issues. She is the founder of A Weigh Out & Acoria Eating Disorder Treatment, Vice President of the Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA), and Co-Chair of the Academy for Eating Disorders Special Interest Group on “Health at Every Size”, ellen@aweighout.com
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