International Lifestyle Magazine Issue 55 | Page 84

SO MUCH MORE
T HA N T H E F O O D W E E AT
FIONA ROBERTSON

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ow does a detox open me
up to my emotions and
enable me to be aware of
my own eating patterns and
conditioning?
This has been a question that
has made me very curious for a
long time. I’ve known for a long
time that it is well recognized
that it happens, that food has
a way to numb our feelings
and that we use food for so
many emotional and comfort
reasons, but what intrigued me
was, how can I adapt and live
with my emotional and eating
patterns, when I know what to
do but help me I sometimes
cannot control my cravings.
They do not go away entirely,
and as I clean up my diet they
continue to show up and help
me to be aware of my reactions
and responses to situations and
how I see myself. So I have to
say a big fat Thank You to the
fact that my need for comfort
eating was in fact asking me to
listen and see what I was and
am actually doing.
A detox opens you up to yourself
to be more aware of yourself.
A detox be that a juice fast, a
colon cleanse, a raw food diet
has cleaned you up raised your
vibration and has taken away
the heavy lower vibration foods

that slow us down and slow
down our mind. Food is used to
numb our senses and detach
us from our heart and what the
body is desperate to let us hear
and feel.
A detox including a short fast
is the best way that I know of
to get you to into a safe place
where we willingly start to
listen. When we stop digesting
food we have the down time
to re evaluate, re charge and
reset all of our systems. It is
one of the best ways I know
to really take care of myself.
And I have seen it over the
past 7 years watching wildly
different people get clarity and
understand themselves better.
So when I was able to learn
more about this I jumped
at the chance to further my
own investigations and to be
of better service to you and
have some more fun around
food. I hear the same or very
similar stories, time and time
again. Questions and curiosities
about food being your drug of
choice, and how can we learn
to live with it and overcome
the overeating cravings. It’s
all so, so serious out there, that
I am happy to play with this
subject for as long as it takes.
I will experiment and continue
to coach and run workshops

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around this subject and help
you to get clarity for yourself
about what food is calling you
to really see and feel.
So to all us overeaters, binge
eaters, controlled eaters and
all the rest of the comfort eater
types, I want you to know that I
will be slowly leading you down
a path of self discovery.
It is way bigger than the food
we eat and how we eat and
even bigger than the when and
why we eat. It’s a huge subject
that has got my attention and
my passion rising.
Everyone has to eat, and so we
can’t avoid food all together.
Even if we have found raw
food and juices and are really
healthy most of us still use food
in some way and as a way to
sedate ourselves, and that’s OK
if we are first aware of why and
what we are doing. This is just
Step One.
Deeper would be to see that
food and our relationship with
food is a mirror of how we react
in just about every relationship
we have.
Its not enough to know where
the patterns originated, but
to go further still would be to
reconnect with your body so
that it can personally tell you,