Flying emotions?

[bikediva]

I've been raw off and on for a few months, and have recommitted to 100% after watching Alissa's DVD yesterday (all 3.5 hours of it!). Well, I'm having a tough time. A REALLY tough time.

All these emotions are boiling up. Especially since my mom (who I don't talk to usually) sent me a big box of various chocolates, bath stuff, etc. Okay, she DID send organic conditioner...

Anyway, thinking about my mom just makes me want to EAT all the disgusting sugar! My question is, how do I deal with all these raging emotions, with no drugs to squelch them? :confused: I've heard the yoga, the meditation, the exercise, the journalling. But these seem only temporary (and plus I'm at work right now).

So what do people do with their emotions? They don't call this diet "raw" for nothing!!! :rolleyes:

[Clare]

I have a lot more emotions than when I was a cooked-food "user". And even raw food can be overeaten, though it doesn't have the same numbing effect. I am simply learning to feel things. I didn't used to feel my feelings but rather stuff them down. Since I wasn't overweight I figured that was fine until I realized that I wasn't really alive and living a healthy lifestyle. For now I am benefitting from OA and slowly working the 12 steps with a raw food plan and sponsor who's amazing. It has helped me immensely to have a plan of three meals a day without grazing (everybody is different though) and to journal my food and feelings. I am not much of a journaler so I only write a few lines but it does help! I also pray throughout the day and give my troubles and worries and relationships to the One who can handle all things. I never realized until I went raw how much of my life was tied up in my food. Just seeing how far I've come I have great hope that I am going to be a different and better person!

I have not read Angela Stokes' book Raw Emotions but maybe some people will jump onto this thread who have. That would be one I'd be interested to have one day.

[lovenlife]

From my own personal experience I have learned for me (and I never went ALL raw ever) that it is not for me to be all raw. My body says no.

The emotiions for me have NEVER stopped being so raw and out there and I have come to realize the source of this (soooo much raw food).

At least for right now, I am shaking things up and switching things out and around to give my body what it needs to come into balance. Balance is key for me.

These past few days I am finding it and it sure feels good.

I can no longer do the highs and the lows and all rounds. I need to maintain a steady way, a steady pace with balance and ease.

THIS is what I have ALWAYS lived on my raw eating plan....to do WHAT WORKS FOR ME!

My life is about joy and happiness. I did not work all hard all my life to find out who I am and what I want to then try to struggle and squeeze myself into someone/anyones elses box and ideas of how I should eat(that just does not work for my body). I YAM what I YAM and lovenlife.

Listen to your body and do what works. I am and it feels awesome. You may be all raw sometimes and not so raw other times...it is all perfectly fine.

[MOTH]

Eat a lot of fruit. Always helps me. Fruit is so satiating and nourishing. I never feel down after eating fruit.

[raw runner]

I've been raw off and on for a few months, and have recommitted to 100% after watching Alissa's DVD yesterday (all 3.5 hours of it!). Well, I'm having a tough time. A REALLY tough time.

All these emotions are boiling up. Especially since my mom (who I don't talk to usually) sent me a big box of various chocolates, bath stuff, etc. Okay, she DID send organic conditioner...

Anyway, thinking about my mom just makes me want to EAT all the disgusting sugar! My question is, how do I deal with all these raging emotions, with no drugs to squelch them? :confused: I've heard the yoga, the meditation, the exercise, the journalling. But these seem only temporary (and plus I'm at work right now).

So what do people do with their emotions? They don't call this diet "raw" for nothing!!! :rolleyes:

do this,eat the chocolate, because of your mom even if you don't talk to her usually it is someone really important in your life...everything that came from the mother is like a gift from God...i know i sound like a weirdo but everytime i avoided my Mom back in time,i always felt guilt everytime...it was the same with my father...

david wolfe says the same about mommy cooking cookies,everyone loves when mommy was cooking cookies...raw or not,when it is from mmo,every son or daughter loves it and can't refuse

[spicyfull]

At least she sent you Something. Send her a THANK YOU note and regift or throw the Chocolate away if you don't eat it. Mothers are a People always in Training. We make TONS of Mistakes because our Children came with No Directions or Warrenty, so We are Flying without instruments.

Life is TOO Short and as you were a Gift to her, She is a Gift to you. Please have a Child and thing will become a lot Clearer to you.

When you Eat, don't blame anyone else but yourself. You are the one in Charge of Your Actions, good or bad. So if you mess up........start again Tomorrow.

Detox can make you feel Crazy sometimes, so do like "Moth" said, eat More Fruit, Sugar is a great lifter.

I hope you take this Post in the Spirit I have written it....

[Revvell]

do this,eat the chocolate, because of your mom even if you don't talk to her usually it is someone really important in your life..

Not true ~ not in the least.
Eating something that will undermine your health because someone called "mom" made it?


.everything that came from the mother is like a gift from God...

So, my mother beating me and taking her frustrations out on me as a child is a "gift from God"?




i know i sound like a weirdo but everytime i avoided my Mom back in time,i always felt guilt everytime...it was the same with my father...

Not me! I'm SO glad I removed myself from her toxic environment.




david wolfe says the same about mommy cooking cookies,everyone loves when mommy was cooking cookies...raw or not,when it is from mmo,every son or daughter loves it and can't refuse

Oh yes, they can. As adults, we have choices. Eating chocolates or cookies because "mom" made them is ridiculous. All we're doing is still looking for mommy's love and acceptance while hurting ourselves. Some day, it's time to grow up and find love, support and acceptance or ourselves from within.

[Revvell]

Please have a Child and things will become a lot clearer to you.


More bad advice. One doesn't need to have a child to learn the lessons of life. Go within. All the answers are there.

[freshlight]

thanks so much for your posts, dear Revvell!!! You saved me lots of time trying to post s-ing similar but not half as good&sharp as your posts. You really are a talented person!

[Revvell]

LOL I'm thinking I wrote that about 1:30 a.m. and with all the frustrations of starting my UStream show, I was acting like mommy.... yet, telling MY truth about the parent child situation. Much love to you my friend.


thanks so much for your posts, dear Revvell!!! You saved me lots of time trying to post s-ing similar but not half as good&sharp as your posts. You really are a talented person!

[raw runner]

not true ~ not in the least.
Eating something that will undermine your health because someone called "mom" made it?


So, my mother beating me and taking her frustrations out on me as a child is a "gift from god"?



Not me! I'm so glad i removed myself from her toxic environment.



Oh yes, they can. As adults, we have choices. Eating chocolates or cookies because "mom" made them is ridiculous. All we're doing is still looking for mommy's love and acceptance while hurting ourselves. Some day, it's time to grow up and find love, support and acceptance or ourselves from within.

do you love your mom???no ok it is good fine but for me all the mothers in the world are a gift from god like is the father...

Thoughts like yours will undermine your health?believe me too much negativity can kill people chocolate won4t

KEEP IT UP MY DEAR?YOU ARE ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE GRAVE WITH YOUR NEGATIVE THOUGHTS

YOU WERE BEATEN BY YOUR MOM?DO YOURSELF A FAVOR GROW UP...YOU ARE ACTING LIKE A KID...

MY MOM CAUSED ME A LOT OF STRESS TOO SHE EVEN THROW ME OUT OF HOME BUT I AM 30 YEARS OLD AND I STILL LOVE HER NO MATTER WHAT SHE DID TO ME

[freshlight]

this is so funny.

it MUST be a joke :D

LOL!!!!!!

[Revvell]

do you love your mom???no ok it is good fine but for me all the mothers in the world are a gift from god like is the father...

No. By the end of her life, I didn't know her and she didn't know me.




Thoughts like yours will undermine your health?believe me too much negativity can kill people chocolate won4t Thoughts like mine? I don't hate her; don't really think much about her. I knew she was doing the best she could. You don't know my story so, take your judgement elsewhere.




KEEP IT UP MY DEAR?YOU ARE ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE GRAVE WITH YOUR NEGATIVE THOUGHTS

YOU WERE BEATEN BY YOUR MOM?DO YOURSELF A FAVOR GROW UP...YOU ARE ACTING LIKE A KID...

MY MOM CAUSED ME A LOT OF STRESS TOO SHE EVEN THROW ME OUT OF HOME BUT I AM 30 YEARS OLD AND I STILL LOVE HER NO MATTER WHAT SHE DID TO MEI'm twice your age and doing quite well "my dear"...

You wish to love someone who mistreats you? Fine with me. I don't care. I choose not to be in that toxic environment. I love ME. "I" come first. That's true love. From out of that comes love for those who deserve it.

I don't go by this new agey "unconditional love" crap. There are NO conditions on my love for me. For others? Oh yeah. Mistreat me and you're gone! I thrive on unconditional happiness.

She made her choices for better or worse, I've made mine and she died bitter and unhappy. I'm still alive and thriving!! Read my appreciations some day.

End of story. Have a wondrous day "my dear". :D

[bikediva]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one with crappy parents. ;-)

Revvell, good on you for dealing with mom issues. Hope I can be there one day. Raw Runner, I'm happy for you that you have a good relationship with your parents; you're lucky. We're all attracted to raw because, deep down, we're willing to hear the truth, even if it's difficult or unpopular. Strong ladies, butting heads.

As for the chocolates, well, I had a little binge, but the wierdest thing happened...they tasted bad, and all I wanted was greens! Seriously. I couldn't wait to go home and make a huge salad after. Usually, I would alternate sweets with potato chips.

So my body, in spite of me, is definitely changing. And I don't feel nearly as bad as I used to after binging, because I KNOW I was raw for many days prior, and I will be raw for many days after. In fact, as I wrote in another forum, I'm fasting right now.

[Revvell]

Strong ladies, butting heads.


No, no head butting at all. Leaving others to their otherness. :)

[bikediva]

:) Revvell, you made my day.

[freshlight]

yeah, it's one of her favourite pastimes :D

[Revvell]

Thanks for the out loud chuckles you two. ;)

[freshlight]

de nada :D

[natasha83]

Not true ~ not in the least.
Eating something that will undermine your health because someone called "mom" made it?


So, my mother beating me and taking her frustrations out on me as a child is a "gift from God"?



Not me! I'm SO glad I removed myself from her toxic environment.



Oh yes, they can. As adults, we have choices. Eating chocolates or cookies because "mom" made them is ridiculous. All we're doing is still looking for mommy's love and acceptance while hurting ourselves. Some day, it's time to grow up and find love, support and acceptance or ourselves from within.

I agree with Revvel. My mother beat the **** out of me as a child and her nickname for me was "UGLY". Nice. I have nothing to do with her, as an adult. She is toxic. My life is SOOOOO much better off without her in it.

[chattanoog]

Yeah I have a "bi-polar" relationship with my mother and she's become very toxic to me. We've had wonderful mother-daughter times together, but somehow out of nowhere the crap hits the fan. It's so negative and I've kept a very sharp eye on myself so as to make sure that I haven't done anything to deserve that mistreatment from my mother. I didn't deserve it and I don't deserve it. I'm actually in the process of cutting ties with her right now, so it's funny that I landed upon this topic.

I realized how important it is for me to have healthy relationships in my life. No matter how hard I try for that to happen, if it doesn't, it's out of my control. Mother or not, I shouldn't be treated poorly by her. Hopefully she'll realize her errors but I'm not responsible for her.

Healthy and happiness are my life's priorities. I agree with Revell's philosophy. I also feel the same way. I follow where my energy leads me! I believe the meaning of life is within you, and once you start to listen, you'll find happiness.