Pick Up a Pen, Not a Fork: Journaling for Food Freedom

By Claire Rabe

Pick up a Pen, Not a Fork: Journaling for Food Freedom presents 12 guided journaling prompts as a self care technique for those who want to unlock the emotional issues that govern their relationship to food. Written in everyday language, the prompts offer ideas for reflection on the how, why, where and what we feed ourselves. The simple exercises can be used over and over to aid in finding a balanced and loving attitude towards ourselves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Feb 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9780359297221

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Introduction

We are born hungry, it seems, and not just for food.

From birth through old age, we’re feted with food, disciplined with food, rewarded with food and celebrated with food. It’s no wonder that food and emotion go hand in hand.

We bounce from diet to diet, wriggle into Spanx and sweat calories out in the gym. We starve for weeks for a big day, and then plan vacations where we can gorge on pleasure boats. In our cities and towns, scarcely a block goes by without at least one fast food restaurant, and everything from pizza to pierogis can be home delivered.

Figuring out a way to stay sane around all that can be a challenge. Enter journaling, a short cut on the road to freedom from an unhealthy mindset about food, nutrition, and ourselves.

This short book presents 12 journaling prompts. Whether planning a vacation, a family get together, living alone for the first time, changing jobs or careers, transitioning into motherhood, newly retired or just married, one constant is our relationship to food. Journaling is a way to nourish the mind, body