By four in the afternoon you are edgy, short with everyone, and standing at the pantry before you have registered that anything is wrong. In this episode Alana walks through what is actually happening in your body in the hour before that, and why the question may not be how to stay calm, but how to catch yourself sooner.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Interrupting Yourself Before The Food
0:18 - Welcome: Nervous System And Overeating
1:47 - Why Regulation Anchored Her Food Healing
2:17 - How The Nervous System Works
3:36 - Fight Or Flight Survival Mode
4:25 - Rest And Digest Explained
5:38 - Why Modern Life Keeps Us Dysregulated
7:36 - Complex Trauma And Stored Stress
8:32 - Other Triggers: Stress, Illness, Routine
9:24 - Healing Is Noticing Faster, Not Never
12:17 - Anxiety, Irritability, Edginess, Brain Fog
13:25 - Where Emotional Eating Comes In
14:30 - Noticing Herself Reaching For Snacks
15:50 - Getting Back Into Your Body
17:25 - Brain Spotting And Regulation Tools
19:36 - What Changes With Food And Weight
Takeaways
⦿ Regulation is not a state you arrive at and stay in. It is noticing you have left it, and knowing how to get back.
⦿ Anxiety, irritability, edginess, brain fog, feeling disconnected from your own body: these are information about what your body is doing, not evidence about who you are.
⦿ Fight or flight does not ask what would help. It asks what is fastest. For a lot of women, the fastest available thing is food.
⦿ The window to interrupt is earlier than most people look for it. Not after the eating, and not in the hour of self-criticism that follows it.
⦿ You will not always know what set you off. You can still interrupt what you do about it.
⦿ Slow movement like walking, yoga, or tai chi gets you back into your body on your own terms, which matters when touch or stillness feels like too much.
