Healing Emotional Wounds from Childhood

How extra weight protects you from your negative feelings...

Healing emotional wounds from childhood is necessary if you want to achieve freedom from food, lose weight, increase your self-esteem, and be happy and satisfied with your body.

These old emotional wounds are deeply-held, painful experiences that, while you might not experience all the time on a conscious level, still exist in your unconscious mind, surfacing at inappropriate moments, making you unhappy and COULD be the reason you overeat.

Food serves as a wonderful coping method, and feelings that have never healed will make you keep fat on as protection.

There may be reasons that you choose to hold on to your weight, including getting negative attention (which may be better than NO attention.)

• You don't want to be told what to do.

• Fear of making changes and exchanging unknown problems with your familiar patterns.

• Fear of disapproval or jealousy from family or friends if you were to lose weight.

• Fear of attracting too much sexual attention.

• Are you continuing to be a "good" eater, Captain of the Clean Plate Club?
You bore these wounds earlier in life and dealt with them in the best way that you could manage at the time. If the feelings were too painful for you to experience, you "suppressed" them. In other words, even though you were not consciously experiencing them daily, the had an effect on you, and were still affecting your thoughts, influencing your expectations, and reducing your ability to be happy and satisfied with your life.

To keep these uncomfortable feelings suppressed takes a certain amount of energy, which could be better used for creativity or engaging in activities that you enjoy.Also, fear of activating these suppressed feelings makes you avoid situations and relationships that remind you of the original emotional injury and its resulting pain.

Healing emotional wounds is feeling, connecting to, and learning to integrate the negative feelings that accompanied the experiences.

The experience itself could have served to strengthen you or allowed you to have more compassion for those who have had similar experiences.

Keeping these feelings suppressed uses your life force energy. Integration of these deeply-held feelings causes tha energy to return to you to spend in ways that will be satisfying.
How Vivation® will help you to heal emotional wounds, and live a life of freedom.