The Importance of Exploring Your Inner Voice and Cultivating Kind Compassionate Internal Conversations with Vasavi Kumar

Happy Satiated Saturday! 

“WHO is choosing your food?” is one of the most powerful questions you can ask yourself when trying to cultivate an empowering and regulating relationship with food. Your internalized mother, father, siblings, family, teachers, culture can be choosing your food at any meal instead of your present day self. It’s important to get to know your internal voices to distinguish who is with you when you’re interacting with food. 

Our internal dialogues can be cultivated at such a young age. Have you ever stopped to really listen to your inner voices and get curious about where they're coming from? Does it sound like your mom or your dad or a teacher or a mentor? 

If you didn't feel like your parents could hold space for your emotions and reactions, you learned to keep everything to yourself. Beliefs and perspectives that maybe never sat quite right with you go unchallenged and become the rules to live by to make sure you continue to feel like you belong in your family. 

Please be compassionate with yourself now. This was you doing the best you could as a young person trying to make sure you would survive in this world. Now, you get the opportunity to explore who shows up with you while you eat so that you can practice being with yourself when in relationship with food. 

In this week’s episode, I chat with Vasavi Kumar, author of Say It Out Loud, about inner voices, self expression, identifying when your inner voice is yours or not, and cultivating your bold voice. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode ​here​: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/the-importance-of-exploring-your-inner-voice

Identifying "Who is eating?" is a core exploration in Somatic Eating®. If you're curious to learn more about this for yourself, there are 10 more days to sign up for the Somatic Eating® Program! If you've been bewildered and confused as to why you keep eating even after you know you're full, if you hear a bombardment of inner dialogues telling you what to eat, if there's a small voice inside that says your eating experiences could be different go to ​somaticeating.com​ to learn more and sign up. 

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