Food just a little word but what an impact on each and every one of us. Under the best of circumstances we use food for many reasons, under the worst we use food to keep people away, to fill an emptiness that seems never to go away. We use food feel better. We use food to slowly kill ourselves by eating too much or too little. Let's face it we all have issues with food!
So How do we help someone who is slowly killing themselves with how they use food?
Can we make them eat? Can we make them stop? We can teach them what is healthy to eat and what is a healthy portion. Yet until they (those we serve) begin to deal with all the issues why the use food they will never stop!
Should I become the food police and follow them around and point out that they are making poor food choices. I am sure this will make them want to follow my directions.
Dignity , Respect and honesty is the way.
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And to further complicate things, we live in a society that celebrates with food: so many important social events include food; this sends such conflicting messages when, at the same time, indulgence in food is associated with shame. How often do we criticize ourselves or even punish ourselves for ingesting that certain something that we believe is either not good for us or undeserved? It is also puzzling, perhaps unreasonable, that we should be expected to police others' eating habits when we ALL have our own food issues. Until I am able to have that Starbucks double soy mocha without guilt, I don't want to join the food police force either!
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