February 2, 2025 • 19 mins
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Ever find yourself reaching for comfort food when life throws a curveball? Join Kristin Jones as she shares her powerful and relatable journey of navigating emotional eating after a life-altering car accident. This episode delves into the heart of emotional well-being, exploring practical strategies for managing emotions during challenging times. Kristin offers insights into embracing the full spectrum of your feelings, discovering the power of presence, and learning to navigate emotions without turning to food for solace. She emphasizes the importance of building a strong support system, identifying those who truly understand, and expressing your needs honestly.
Beyond the surface of food habits, this conversation explores the deep connection between mental, emotional, and physical health. Kristin discusses how stress manifests physically, particularly during major life events like grief or job loss, and highlights the crucial role of self-care. Learn how prioritizing rest and incorporating movement can significantly impact your mood and empower you to make healthier choices. This is more than just a podcast; it's an invitation to connect with yourself and others on a deeper level, discover your inner resilience, and embark on a path toward lasting well-being.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Do you want to lose weight but struggle to stay
committed to a meal plan becauseyou constantly feel hungry?
Does food provide you comfortwhen you are bored, angry,
lonely or sad?
If so, you are in the rightplace.
My name is Kristen Jones andI'm a life coach specializing in
emotional eating and weightloss, and I'm also a lifelong
(00:29):
emotional eater.
I want to provide you withinformation, motivation and
support so you, too, can learnto manage your issues with food
and develop a healthyrelationship with yourself.
Welcome to the BreakthroughEmotional Eating Podcast.
Hi and welcome to theBreakthrough Emotional Eating
(01:03):
Podcast.
My name is Kristen Jones andthank you so much, more so than
ever, for joining me this week.
For those of you that don't know, 12 days ago I was involved in
a head-on collision.
I was going about 35 miles anhour.
The other person was goingabout 50 miles an hour.
(01:23):
He crossed over the middle line.
He was trying to avoid runninginto some cars that were waiting
for a person to back out of adriveway and came too fast and
couldn't, didn't know what to doand was either going to run
into them and crush them intheir cars or he was going to
swerve and crush me, and he did.
He was going to swerve andcrush me and he did, and so I.
(01:46):
It was impacted about, you know, 85 to 90 plus miles an hour.
Um, and my life has beencompletely flipped upside down
and all sorts of things havehappened since then.
Um, so many things that youhave to do, if anyone you know
for those of you out therewho've been in an automobile
accident and one that you knowtotals your car there are so
(02:10):
many things you have to do withinsurance, there's so many
people you have to talk to andyou don't know who to trust and
you don't know who you'resupposed to listen to, and
there's all kinds of emotionsthat are going on, and so what I
want to talk about today is howhow I worked through and being,
(02:32):
you know, being somebody who is, who has huge tendencies to be
an emotional, to maintain myfocus and my emotions, as well
as my food, and how I worked myway through that in the course
(02:54):
of the last 12 days, and how Iwould encourage and want to
share with you the things that Idid in order to allow any of
you to take any of these thingsand use them when you have a
stressful, a hugely stressfulsituation and I don't even think
(03:15):
it needs to be a big event likethis.
Um, but it it can be.
You know you can use it whenthere's something, something
happens at work, somethinghappens, you get into a fight
with your spouse I mean any ofthese things.
They all can fall under thiscategory of how do I do these
things?
How do I manage my own emotions, manage my food, get through it
(03:39):
and get through it, feelingbetter about myself?
So, if you are listening to thispodcast and you are not a
member of the BreakthroughEmotional Eating community on
Facebook you want to be.
You can join the group.
Request to join atwwwfacebookcom.
Forward slash groups.
(03:59):
Forward slash food breakthrough.
And I give away all sorts offree stuff and I want people to
use any of the resources that wehave in the group, as well as
the information that I send outin emails.
Um, I have all sorts of of, youknow, pdfs and and note guides
and and checklists and all sortsof things.
(04:21):
So listen to more podcasts, butget in the group and you really
have an.
You have the ability to be ableto listen to podcasts as
they're being recorded and, uh,and then obviously you get, you
have the opportunity to listento it live and interact with me
and ask any questions that youhave.
Um, today I'm recording thisprivately because the internet
that I, where I am staying, isnot very good.
(04:41):
So, um, I I will just record itand then put it in the group
for people to see and then I'llupload it to my podcast platform
.
So back to what we're going totalk about today how to manage
your food during a stressfullife event.
(05:03):
So one of the things that Ithink and I think this is is
super important for any, for anyevent, as it's happening, is
you.
I needed to stay very, verypresent, and it was probably the
hardest thing to stay presentas, as as the events and the
(05:27):
unfolding of, of being in such asuch a huge type of accident,
um, and all of the things that Ihad to do, and, and as a result
of doing those things, um, youknow, again, my life was kind of
turned upside down.
So one of the, the first thingthat I think is really important
is that, um, you own whathappened and you're just, you
(05:52):
have to kind of be like, okay,that happened, and then you've
got to say how you're feelingabout it.
You've got to use the words.
I'm not going to use the wordsthat I used, but I'm not here
not here Cause I don't want tomake this a explicit podcast but
you've got to use those wordsin describing how you feel,
because when we keep that stuffinside, that's when we start to
(06:16):
have a problem.
So you have to express and shareyour emotions and you have to
share them with people that areappropriate to listen, and I say
appropriate to listen.
There are people that want tosupport you and you, and not
everybody wants to support us.
We have to be okay with that.
We have to be okay withsometimes people only want to be
around for the good times.
They don't want to be aroundfor the bad times, and that's
(06:38):
okay.
But you have to remember thatthat that's their choice, they
get to choose that and that youthen get to decide okay, I can
either have this you know, Ikind of know who my people are
that I can talk to, but you haveto be and you have to talk
about what happened.
You have to talk about whathappened.
(07:00):
If someone has passed on, ifsomeone has died, if someone has
lost a job or there's a breakup, you have to talk about it.
You don't you being stoic andholding onto the emotions, only
they.
We carry everything in ourbodies, everything that happens
(07:20):
to us is carried in our bodies,and so we have to try to get as
much of that energy out of us aspossible and so communicating
and talking about how you feelas soon as it happens, and not
just wait, don't hold on to it,because when you hold on to it,
then things start to fester.
So you've got to address,address what happened, address
(07:42):
the emotions that you're feeling, name them and be okay with it.
You especially if, especiallyif something is not, you're
doing like I.
I will be completely honest.
I mean, it was 100%.
The other person is 100% liablefor every single thing that
happened to me.
They are responsible for it.
(08:06):
And what I have had to gothrough is I've had to go
through these stages of, atfirst, just being happy that I
was alive, just being happy, andthen the next was okay.
Now I've got these physical,I've got this, this physical
pain that I'm going through.
How do I deal with that?
How do I deal with thoseemotions?
How do I deal with that fearthat I have about how I'm
(08:27):
feeling and the fact that forthe first three or four days I
couldn't I had a struggle to putsentences together and there
was a lot of fear attached tothat.
There was a lot and there was alot of people telling me what
they wanted me to do about it,and there were things I wanted
to do and there were things Ididn't want to do, but I had to
feel all of those emotions, andso that is really important to
(08:57):
feel it, to have people feel it,own the emotion and then share
that emotion with other people,share their emotion with people
that are safe.
Because if you don't and youjust bottle it up and push it
down, what we push down goes out, because when we have those
emotions inside of us and we'renot dealing with them, those
feelings are going to need to beeither hidden away or they're
(09:17):
going to need to be fed.
It's like they're actually likea living being inside of you.
So you have to make sure thatyou are addressing and dealing
with those emotions as they comeup, owning them, naming them
and then dealing with them.
Dealing with them by sharingand talking to them.
Talking about it with someoneelse, um, the next thing is you
(09:41):
need to remember that this isjust a snapshot.
This is just one aspect of yourlife, and if you have been
working on you know a weightloss goal and you have been
working towards certain thingsthat you want to have in your
life, you have to remember thebigger picture.
This is just a moment in time.
(10:03):
The my accident was a moment intime, and I had to realize that
the rest of my life still had togo on.
My business still had to go on.
I still had people that neededme, that needed me and that I
(10:24):
was accountable to, and therewas also another job that I was
accountable to, and so I had to.
I had to know, I had to realizethis wasn't going to be the way
, it was going to be forever.
I wasn't going to feel this outof control.
I wasn't going to feel thesethings all all at once, and so I
had to remember what's my goal,what are my bigger goals
outside of this event.
(10:45):
That's happened that I had nocontrol over reminding yourself
of all the things that you'reworking towards, that are
important to you and why they'reimportant to you, and to keep
moving forward.
Don't let yourself fall inbecause it's so easy, especially
with any type of of of accident, whether it's a car accident,
(11:06):
whether it's a you know it's anaccident at work it's so easy to
find yourself falling into thispit of despair and I, I will
tell you, I was there.
It was about the fourth day andI had talked to somebody about
the, the, the accident, and I, Istarted getting these really
bad feelings like, oh my gosh,I'm not going to be taken care
(11:28):
of, this is going to be reallybad, like I, this is, this is
going to go in a way that is notgoing to be good.
And and I had to just stopmyself and be like, nope, this
is not your, this is not goingto become your identity, this is
not who you are.
This is a snapshot and you getto move on from here.
So I just had to remind myselfof that a lot.
Um, next thing is I needed to,not the one thing for me
(11:56):
personally, that is always thething that gets me that, because
it makes me feel better is tosnack, because and I, I, you
know, there was a day or twothat I was like I'm not eating
any meals.
I don't want to eat any meals,I don't.
I was, I was kind of nauseated.
I didn't really want to eatmeals.
I didn't want to.
You know, I wanted to.
Just I wanted to just snackbecause it made me feel better.
And then I had to just be like,wait a minute, that is not the
(12:19):
direction, that's not going tohelp you, it's not the direction
you want to go go in.
And so what I had to do was Ihad to remind myself what are
the things that have gotten mewhere I am, and those are the
things I need to do.
So I still needed to go toTrader Joe's and I needed to buy
all my food and I needed toplan what I was going to eat and
I needed to make sure there wasgood food in the refrigerator
so I could stay nourished,because my body was not going to
(12:41):
heal if I didn't keep myselfnourished in the way that I
always have, and that would be,you know, planning my meals,
eating them in a timely way,making sure I was drinking my
water which was really hard, bythe way, um and I, but I, but I
had to keep reminding myself.
I had to keep reminding myselfof that.
(13:03):
The next thing is you have tolisten to your body, even if
this is a stressful event likeyou know a family member passing
on or a job loss something thatdoesn't physically impair you,
it emotionally and mentallyimpacts you and that in turn,
(13:25):
impacts you physically.
So you need to let yourselftake naps.
You need to realize that you'regoing to have a hard time
having energy.
It's going to impact you, it'sgoing to impact how you move
through your world and it's okaythat that's happening.
And you have to listen to yourbody and say okay, you know what
?
I don't usually nap, but I'mnapping now.
(13:46):
I'm taking a nap, I'm going tobed early, I'm sleeping in a
little bit later.
You have to listen to your bodyand you have to do what your
body is telling you that itneeds.
We have to start listening toour bodies and we have to give
our bodies what we need.
For me, it was taking napswhenever I could For the first,
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taking naps whenever I could.
For the first I would say days,days three and four.
I spent both of those days inbed.
The first day of the accidentand the second day I acted like
everything was fine.
And then it hit me like a tonof bricks and all of a sudden it
was like, oh my gosh, all Iwant to do is sleep and I just
and I knew I realized right awayI was like, oh, this was such a
bad decision.
I really really need to givemyself time to really really
like just just heal, healmentally, emotionally, all of
(14:36):
those things.
So allow yourself to do whatyour body needs to do in order
for you to feel the best thatyou can feel.
And I would say the last thingis, you need to try, and this
was the hardest thing for me is,if you are someone who is, um,
you know, if you're physicallyactive, even if you're not
(14:58):
physically active, you need tomove your body.
You need to get oxygen intoyour, you know, you need to get.
You need to oxygenate yourbrain, you need to oxygenate
your lungs, I mean everything.
You need to move your body,even if it's just going out and
going for a walk you know, 10minute walk after, after each of
your meals, or just walkingoutside and standing in nature
(15:19):
and just taking some deepbreaths.
We need to move our bodies insome way, because it elevates
your mood.
If you just sit, and you, youknow, let yourself be absorbed
in the emotion.
You sit, you get absorbed inthe emotion.
What do you want to do?
You want to turn and eatbecause you don't like the way
that necessarily feels.
So making sure that you reallyget yourself out and whether
(15:44):
that's going for a walk in theshop, in a shopping mall, or or
you're just meeting a friend forcoffee, and making sure that
you take your coffee and youwalk a little bit and I'm
talking five or 10 minutes butjust get yourself out where you
can feel you're alive.
You're alive, you're blessed.
You're blessed to be, you'reblessed to have awakened in the
(16:04):
morning.
Sometimes we forget that, thatthat is every morning when we
wake up.
That's a blessing.
We get to be happy that we gotto wake up this morning.
So taking those blessings inand really, really valuing and
appreciating them and givingyourself that gift is so beyond
important, so incrediblyimportant.
(16:26):
So I would encourage you to getout and move your body as much
as you can, especially in mycase.
I needed to do that because mybody hurt and it it there was.
I had been checked out twiceand I and I, you know the doctor
said you're going to be sore,but you do need.
You need blood flow.
You need to get those, keepthose muscles moving, and, and
(16:46):
so I really tried to do that andthat elevated my mood, made me
feel better, and then itelevated my mood and allowed me
to make better decisions aboutwhat I wanted to eat, when I
wanted to eat, how I was goingto go about doing it, so I
really had to keep it.
I think when stressful eventshappen, big stressful events
that create a lot of emotion, wehave to deal with the mental
(17:07):
piece first, and then thephysical piece will fall into
place.
But allow yourself the time andthe energy and the focus to be
able to deal with the mental andemotional piece and then the
physical piece.
You won't you, you won't findyourself turning to food as as
much as you would if you justtried to just plow forward and
just like I can just do this, Ican just tough it out.
(17:29):
We don't need to tough it out,we don't need to tough anything
out.
We need to make sure that weare taking care of ourselves,
especially during thesestressful times, and allow
yourself to be able to healmentally, emotionally and
obviously physically as well.
So I hope that helps.
I hope, if anyone and please, Iwould love to you know.
I'd love for you to to share umin any of the comments, whether
(17:52):
it's uh, you know, on the inthe YouTube video, whether it's
um on, you know, in on mypodcast platform.
Um, if you've, if you'veexperienced something like that,
if you've had a major accident,if you've had, you know, a huge
death in the family, and andhow, how, how you responded to
those things, becauseeverybody's a little different
(18:13):
but having some guidelines about, about allowing yourself to
feel certain things and allowingyourself to really to to really
take care of yourself as well,is so very important.
It's going to make it so mucheasier to move through and do
what you need to do and takecare of yourself as well is so
very important.
It's going to make it so mucheasier to move through and do
what you need to do and takecare of yourself, because that's
ultimately always the mostimportant thing you have to take
(18:35):
care of you.
All right, have an amazing restof your week.
This is a Tuesday, so have anamazing rest of your week and I
will see you all next week onthe podcast and take care and be
safe out there.
All right, bye-bye.
Thank you for listening to thisweek's episode, if you would
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and click the Stop Dieting Guidebutton.
Do you want to lose weight but struggle to stay
committed to a meal plan becauseyou constantly feel hungry?
Does food provide you comfortwhen you are bored, angry,
lonely or sad?
If so, you are in the rightplace.
My name is Kristen Jones andI'm a life coach specializing in
emotional eating and weightloss, and I'm also a lifelong
(00:29):
emotional eater.
I want to provide you withinformation, motivation and
support so you, too, can learnto manage your issues with food
and develop a healthyrelationship with yourself.
Welcome to the BreakthroughEmotional Eating Podcast.
Hi and welcome to theBreakthrough Emotional Eating
(01:03):
Podcast.
My name is Kristen Jones andthank you so much, more so than
ever, for joining me this week.
For those of you that don't know, 12 days ago I was involved in
a head-on collision.
I was going about 35 miles anhour.
The other person was goingabout 50 miles an hour.
(01:23):
He crossed over the middle line.
He was trying to avoid runninginto some cars that were waiting
for a person to back out of adriveway and came too fast and
couldn't, didn't know what to doand was either going to run
into them and crush them intheir cars or he was going to
swerve and crush me, and he did.
He was going to swerve andcrush me and he did, and so I.
(01:46):
It was impacted about, you know, 85 to 90 plus miles an hour.
Um, and my life has beencompletely flipped upside down
and all sorts of things havehappened since then.
Um, so many things that youhave to do, if anyone you know
for those of you out therewho've been in an automobile
accident and one that you knowtotals your car there are so
(02:10):
many things you have to do withinsurance, there's so many
people you have to talk to andyou don't know who to trust and
you don't know who you'resupposed to listen to, and
there's all kinds of emotionsthat are going on, and so what I
want to talk about today is howhow I worked through and being,
(02:32):
you know, being somebody who is, who has huge tendencies to be
an emotional, to maintain myfocus and my emotions, as well
as my food, and how I worked myway through that in the course
(02:54):
of the last 12 days, and how Iwould encourage and want to
share with you the things that Idid in order to allow any of
you to take any of these thingsand use them when you have a
stressful, a hugely stressfulsituation and I don't even think
(03:15):
it needs to be a big event likethis.
Um, but it it can be.
You know you can use it whenthere's something, something
happens at work, somethinghappens, you get into a fight
with your spouse I mean any ofthese things.
They all can fall under thiscategory of how do I do these
things?
How do I manage my own emotions, manage my food, get through it
(03:39):
and get through it, feelingbetter about myself?
So, if you are listening to thispodcast and you are not a
member of the BreakthroughEmotional Eating community on
Facebook you want to be.
You can join the group.
Request to join atwwwfacebookcom.
Forward slash groups.
(03:59):
Forward slash food breakthrough.
And I give away all sorts offree stuff and I want people to
use any of the resources that wehave in the group, as well as
the information that I send outin emails.
Um, I have all sorts of of, youknow, pdfs and and note guides
and and checklists and all sortsof things.
(04:21):
So listen to more podcasts, butget in the group and you really
have an.
You have the ability to be ableto listen to podcasts as
they're being recorded and, uh,and then obviously you get, you
have the opportunity to listento it live and interact with me
and ask any questions that youhave.
Um, today I'm recording thisprivately because the internet
that I, where I am staying, isnot very good.
(04:41):
So, um, I I will just record itand then put it in the group
for people to see and then I'llupload it to my podcast platform
.
So back to what we're going totalk about today how to manage
your food during a stressfullife event.
(05:03):
So one of the things that Ithink and I think this is is
super important for any, for anyevent, as it's happening, is
you.
I needed to stay very, verypresent, and it was probably the
hardest thing to stay presentas, as as the events and the
(05:27):
unfolding of, of being in such asuch a huge type of accident,
um, and all of the things that Ihad to do, and, and as a result
of doing those things, um, youknow, again, my life was kind of
turned upside down.
So one of the, the first thingthat I think is really important
is that, um, you own whathappened and you're just, you
(05:52):
have to kind of be like, okay,that happened, and then you've
got to say how you're feelingabout it.
You've got to use the words.
I'm not going to use the wordsthat I used, but I'm not here
not here Cause I don't want tomake this a explicit podcast but
you've got to use those wordsin describing how you feel,
because when we keep that stuffinside, that's when we start to
(06:16):
have a problem.
So you have to express and shareyour emotions and you have to
share them with people that areappropriate to listen, and I say
appropriate to listen.
There are people that want tosupport you and you, and not
everybody wants to support us.
We have to be okay with that.
We have to be okay withsometimes people only want to be
around for the good times.
They don't want to be aroundfor the bad times, and that's
(06:38):
okay.
But you have to remember thatthat that's their choice, they
get to choose that and that youthen get to decide okay, I can
either have this you know, Ikind of know who my people are
that I can talk to, but you haveto be and you have to talk
about what happened.
You have to talk about whathappened.
(07:00):
If someone has passed on, ifsomeone has died, if someone has
lost a job or there's a breakup, you have to talk about it.
You don't you being stoic andholding onto the emotions, only
they.
We carry everything in ourbodies, everything that happens
(07:20):
to us is carried in our bodies,and so we have to try to get as
much of that energy out of us aspossible and so communicating
and talking about how you feelas soon as it happens, and not
just wait, don't hold on to it,because when you hold on to it,
then things start to fester.
So you've got to address,address what happened, address
(07:42):
the emotions that you're feeling, name them and be okay with it.
You especially if, especiallyif something is not, you're
doing like I.
I will be completely honest.
I mean, it was 100%.
The other person is 100% liablefor every single thing that
happened to me.
They are responsible for it.
(08:06):
And what I have had to gothrough is I've had to go
through these stages of, atfirst, just being happy that I
was alive, just being happy, andthen the next was okay.
Now I've got these physical,I've got this, this physical
pain that I'm going through.
How do I deal with that?
How do I deal with thoseemotions?
How do I deal with that fearthat I have about how I'm
(08:27):
feeling and the fact that forthe first three or four days I
couldn't I had a struggle to putsentences together and there
was a lot of fear attached tothat.
There was a lot and there was alot of people telling me what
they wanted me to do about it,and there were things I wanted
to do and there were things Ididn't want to do, but I had to
feel all of those emotions, andso that is really important to
(08:57):
feel it, to have people feel it,own the emotion and then share
that emotion with other people,share their emotion with people
that are safe.
Because if you don't and youjust bottle it up and push it
down, what we push down goes out, because when we have those
emotions inside of us and we'renot dealing with them, those
feelings are going to need to beeither hidden away or they're
(09:17):
going to need to be fed.
It's like they're actually likea living being inside of you.
So you have to make sure thatyou are addressing and dealing
with those emotions as they comeup, owning them, naming them
and then dealing with them.
Dealing with them by sharingand talking to them.
Talking about it with someoneelse, um, the next thing is you
(09:41):
need to remember that this isjust a snapshot.
This is just one aspect of yourlife, and if you have been
working on you know a weightloss goal and you have been
working towards certain thingsthat you want to have in your
life, you have to remember thebigger picture.
This is just a moment in time.
(10:03):
The my accident was a moment intime, and I had to realize that
the rest of my life still had togo on.
My business still had to go on.
I still had people that neededme, that needed me and that I
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was accountable to, and therewas also another job that I was
accountable to, and so I had to.
I had to know, I had to realizethis wasn't going to be the way
, it was going to be forever.
I wasn't going to feel this outof control.
I wasn't going to feel thesethings all all at once, and so I
had to remember what's my goal,what are my bigger goals
outside of this event.
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That's happened that I had nocontrol over reminding yourself
of all the things that you'reworking towards, that are
important to you and why they'reimportant to you, and to keep
moving forward.
Don't let yourself fall inbecause it's so easy, especially
with any type of of of accident, whether it's a car accident,
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whether it's a you know it's anaccident at work it's so easy to
find yourself falling into thispit of despair and I, I will
tell you, I was there.
It was about the fourth day andI had talked to somebody about
the, the, the accident, and I, Istarted getting these really
bad feelings like, oh my gosh,I'm not going to be taken care
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of, this is going to be reallybad, like I, this is, this is
going to go in a way that is notgoing to be good.
And and I had to just stopmyself and be like, nope, this
is not your, this is not goingto become your identity, this is
not who you are.
This is a snapshot and you getto move on from here.
So I just had to remind myselfof that a lot.
Um, next thing is I needed to,not the one thing for me
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personally, that is always thething that gets me that, because
it makes me feel better is tosnack, because and I, I, you
know, there was a day or twothat I was like I'm not eating
any meals.
I don't want to eat any meals,I don't.
I was, I was kind of nauseated.
I didn't really want to eatmeals.
I didn't want to.
You know, I wanted to.
Just I wanted to just snackbecause it made me feel better.
And then I had to just be like,wait a minute, that is not the
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direction, that's not going tohelp you, it's not the direction
you want to go go in.
And so what I had to do was Ihad to remind myself what are
the things that have gotten mewhere I am, and those are the
things I need to do.
So I still needed to go toTrader Joe's and I needed to buy
all my food and I needed toplan what I was going to eat and
I needed to make sure there wasgood food in the refrigerator
so I could stay nourished,because my body was not going to
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heal if I didn't keep myselfnourished in the way that I
always have, and that would be,you know, planning my meals,
eating them in a timely way,making sure I was drinking my
water which was really hard, bythe way, um and I, but I, but I
had to keep reminding myself.
I had to keep reminding myselfof that.
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The next thing is you have tolisten to your body, even if
this is a stressful event likeyou know a family member passing
on or a job loss something thatdoesn't physically impair you,
it emotionally and mentallyimpacts you and that in turn,
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impacts you physically.
So you need to let yourselftake naps.
You need to realize that you'regoing to have a hard time
having energy.
It's going to impact you, it'sgoing to impact how you move
through your world and it's okaythat that's happening.
And you have to listen to yourbody and say okay, you know what
?
I don't usually nap, but I'mnapping now.
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I'm taking a nap, I'm going tobed early, I'm sleeping in a
little bit later.
You have to listen to your bodyand you have to do what your
body is telling you that itneeds.
We have to start listening toour bodies and we have to give
our bodies what we need.
For me, it was taking napswhenever I could For the first,
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taking naps whenever I could.
For the first I would say days,days three and four.
I spent both of those days inbed.
The first day of the accidentand the second day I acted like
everything was fine.
And then it hit me like a tonof bricks and all of a sudden it
was like, oh my gosh, all Iwant to do is sleep and I just
and I knew I realized right awayI was like, oh, this was such a
bad decision.
I really really need to givemyself time to really really
like just just heal, healmentally, emotionally, all of
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those things.
So allow yourself to do whatyour body needs to do in order
for you to feel the best thatyou can feel.
And I would say the last thingis, you need to try, and this
was the hardest thing for me is,if you are someone who is, um,
you know, if you're physicallyactive, even if you're not
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physically active, you need tomove your body.
You need to get oxygen intoyour, you know, you need to get.
You need to oxygenate yourbrain, you need to oxygenate
your lungs, I mean everything.
You need to move your body,even if it's just going out and
going for a walk you know, 10minute walk after, after each of
your meals, or just walkingoutside and standing in nature
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and just taking some deepbreaths.
We need to move our bodies insome way, because it elevates
your mood.
If you just sit, and you, youknow, let yourself be absorbed
in the emotion.
You sit, you get absorbed inthe emotion.
What do you want to do?
You want to turn and eatbecause you don't like the way
that necessarily feels.
So making sure that you reallyget yourself out and whether
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that's going for a walk in theshop, in a shopping mall, or or
you're just meeting a friend forcoffee, and making sure that
you take your coffee and youwalk a little bit and I'm
talking five or 10 minutes butjust get yourself out where you
can feel you're alive.
You're alive, you're blessed.
You're blessed to be, you'reblessed to have awakened in the
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morning.
Sometimes we forget that, thatthat is every morning when we
wake up.
That's a blessing.
We get to be happy that we gotto wake up this morning.
So taking those blessings inand really, really valuing and
appreciating them and givingyourself that gift is so beyond
important, so incrediblyimportant.
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So I would encourage you to getout and move your body as much
as you can, especially in mycase.
I needed to do that because mybody hurt and it it there was.
I had been checked out twiceand I and I, you know the doctor
said you're going to be sore,but you do need.
You need blood flow.
You need to get those, keepthose muscles moving, and, and
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so I really tried to do that andthat elevated my mood, made me
feel better, and then itelevated my mood and allowed me
to make better decisions aboutwhat I wanted to eat, when I
wanted to eat, how I was goingto go about doing it, so I
really had to keep it.
I think when stressful eventshappen, big stressful events
that create a lot of emotion, wehave to deal with the mental
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piece first, and then thephysical piece will fall into
place.
But allow yourself the time andthe energy and the focus to be
able to deal with the mental andemotional piece and then the
physical piece.
You won't you, you won't findyourself turning to food as as
much as you would if you justtried to just plow forward and
just like I can just do this, Ican just tough it out.
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We don't need to tough it out,we don't need to tough anything
out.
We need to make sure that weare taking care of ourselves,
especially during thesestressful times, and allow
yourself to be able to healmentally, emotionally and
obviously physically as well.
So I hope that helps.
I hope, if anyone and please, Iwould love to you know.
I'd love for you to to share umin any of the comments, whether
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it's uh, you know, on the inthe YouTube video, whether it's
um on, you know, in on mypodcast platform.
Um, if you've, if you'veexperienced something like that,
if you've had a major accident,if you've had, you know, a huge
death in the family, and andhow, how, how you responded to
those things, becauseeverybody's a little different
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but having some guidelines about, about allowing yourself to
feel certain things and allowingyourself to really to to really
take care of yourself as well,is so very important.
It's going to make it so mucheasier to move through and do
what you need to do and takecare of yourself as well is so
very important.
It's going to make it so mucheasier to move through and do
what you need to do and takecare of yourself, because that's
ultimately always the mostimportant thing you have to take
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care of you.
All right, have an amazing restof your week.
This is a Tuesday, so have anamazing rest of your week and I
will see you all next week onthe podcast and take care and be
safe out there.
All right, bye-bye.
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