Survival mode and cortisol impact how people choose to eat or how they react to their eating behaviors and or if it fuels extra shame?

Sure.

Yeah.

I mean, I think it's something that gets overlooked often.

You know, the idea that there's this whole system happening behind the scenes that's actually driving potentially your hunger or your fullness or, you know, just the way in which you're eating.

And I think there's a way, there's an opportunity there to actually reduce shame.

Like there's, when you're in survival mode, like you have less control over yourself.

I can imagine that could be pretty overwhelming for anyone, let alone for a caregiver who's functioning on all cylinders and more 24-7 underslept and in survival mode.

I think some people in good faith, but it's, it's tricky, right? It's like, how do you, how do you talk about something like this? It's really hard.

Yeah, totally.

I, um, I, I noticed that there was a lot more frustration with the algorithm, like, serving people up certain, um, brands or images.

And I know I work with clients that are very intentional with who they follow and how they shape their online presence.

And just a, a, a massive setback in, in the sense of, like, I think I- I'm getting served up images that are unhealthy in my recovery process.

And now I'm feeling like, "Wait, what's real? Is this really happening?" And so I, I actually kind of think it's important to be talking about, um, this cultural shift in this way of, you know, having nuanced conversations because it can feel like, you know, we're being gaslit if we're not talking about it.

I had clients really say, like, "I feel like I'm going crazy.

How can you?

What do you think most clinicians misunderstand about eating disorder or about maybe the role the body plays in recovery?

You know, I think even just before h-heading into the body part, um, I think a lot of clinicians hear eating disorders or have, like, a list in their head about, like, things I don't wanna work with, and eating disorders is often on there, um, because they're scary.

It's, like, the number one psychiatric, you know, illness that kills.

Um, there's, like, this direct link, right? You know, if you have anorexia or bulimia, like, you can die, and many people do.

Um, and so that's very scary for folks.

And so I think it's often misunderstood that there's a relational...

if there's a relationship that, um, we can seek out consultation and work on, you know, building skills to work with an eating disorder.

What's the through line there? What does attachment have to do with how someone relates to food?