I Still Have Food Urges - And I'm Recovered

I want to tell you something:⁣
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𝘐 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘴 – for food, to not workout, to procrastinate- quite a lot of them.⁣
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Here’s the difference between my overeating self and my not-overeating self; I got good at recognizing the urge as A voice, not THE voice.⁣
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The truth is that the urge is just one voice – it’s the voice that says “a train is coming to hit you FOR GODS SAKE RUN INTO CAKE!”. Well-intentioned (and possibly trauma-based), but irrational, self-sabotaging, and dysfunctional.⁣
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The truth is that there are other voices, many others. 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤, 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴.⁣
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They are SO quiet, so neglected, we might believe we’ve lost them – or that they were never there to begin with. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 – I promise you, they are.⁣
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They give us the strength and the serenity to allow the craving without complying with it. And when we act on these voices, we strengthen them.⁣
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So, I still have urges. But now my other voices are 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠.⁣
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And that, for me, is recovery.⁣