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When you can nurture others with food but not yourself

I love cooking for others but I can't eat what I make without intense guilt and anxiety about the calories and ingredients.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You can extend care through food to others while withholding that same nourishment from yourself, revealing a fundamental split in self-compassion.

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“Where Are You with Food relationship and disordered eating?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.