
The Gateway to Restoring a secure Relationship with your Body and Food
The Gateway to Restoring a secure Relationship with your Body and Food
Struggle some eating patterns can have a devastating impact on our bodies, lives and relationships. In addition, efforts to correct these dysfunctional eating patterns can often be to no avail, which can reinforce feelings of self-loathing and despair. And for so many women and men, this very painful, heart-breaking struggle can go on for years, if not decades.
Somatic Psychology Specialist, Jia Lee offers a powerful model that can explain and resolve the disordered eating mystery, in a whole new way. She argues that the underpinning of disordered eating patterns is a result of a loss of Self. Thus in restoring the Self, we can restore our relationship to food and our body.
Jia's model for recovery is an approach she developed through the process of battling and slowly recovering from her own severely disordered eating patterns. Patterns that left her in a lot of pain physically, emotionally, and spiritually for decades. The struggle pushed her to look high and low for answers, examining it from many intersecting fields of psychology, neural behaviorism, biochemistry and more. Through the weaving together of many theories and practices she was able to create an approach that has helped her, and many others restore a nurturing and healthy relationship with themselves, their body and food.
In this 2 hour talk, I offer a model I use to treat disordered eating. We cover the domains of recovery that may need work, and two possible treatment strategies, such as psychedelic somatic interactional therapy and combat play.