Food for Thought

Activity type: reflecting + journaling Time: 15-20min Materials: paper, pen/pencil

This week, take a moment to explore your relationship to food. *If you are currently experiencing or have ever experienced any form of body dysmorphia or eating disorder, although this exercise can still be extremely powerful and helpful, please be advised that it may also be triggering. So take any necessary precautions that you might need. Consider doing this activity with a trusted friend, family member, or especially a mental health professional if your disorder is still severe/you are prone to relapse.* Use the "Food Relationship Writing Exercise" Template attached below to reflect on your past relationship to food, your current relationship to food (eating it, cooking it, and labeling it in your mind as either "healthy" or "unhealthy"), as well as your ideal future relationship to food. The purpose of this exercise is as a check-in. However, it's useless if you aren't willing to be fully honest and transparent with yourself. Let the answers come without judging or shaming yourself for what you may write. The path to healing is paved with difficult, honest conversations - with others, but firstly with yourself.

Food Relationship Writing Exercise.pdf

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