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When spiritual fasting doesn't heal the relationship with food

I started fasting to break my emotional eating patterns but now I think about food just as much when I'm not eating and I wonder if I've just traded one obsession for another.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Using spiritual practices to address psychological patterns can shift the symptoms without addressing underlying issues, creating new forms of the same problem.

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