Ep. 36 Why You Feel the Need to “Make Up” for Eating—and Punish Yourself
You eat more than you intended, and almost immediately your mind starts figuring out how you're going to “make up” for it. Maybe you'll eat less tomorrow. Skip breakfast. Exercise more. Be “good” for the rest of the week.
But what's actually behind that urge to punish yourself?
In this episode of Unlearning Beautiful, I explore the deeper belief underneath food guilt, restriction, and compensation: the idea that when we've done something “bad,” we need to punish ourselves to correct it and become “good” again.
I look at how we learn this good/bad framework early in life, how we eventually…
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