Welcome to Heal Yourself. Change Your Life. I’m Brandy Gillmore and what I’m most known for is helping people to create radical transformations and even demonstrating the power of the mind and self-healing under medical equipment so you can see the results and. My work has even been published in a medical journal because it’s truly incredible what we are all capable of when we understand our own minds at a deeper level.
So whether you’re new to this work or you’ve been studying the Power of the Mind for many years. I love that you are here. I love that we’re on this incredible journey together, and I look forward to sharing breakthrough information with you. That said, on this podcast, I’ll share two types of episodes.
First, self-healing episodes, where I share key insights from working with live volunteers. And the second type are where I answer questions from the audience. That said, if you’d like to volunteer or submit a question, come visit me at BrandyGillmore.com. On that note, let’s dive in.
So today I’m going to answer a listener question that came in regarding the topic of food and diet. And so often people will reach out with this very question and it is this is that many times if people go on a different diet, they may. Feel fatigue or more exhaustion at times, or maybe they may feel better initially and then it drops off.
And so the exact question that came in from a listener was basically that every time he tries a different diet, he feels worse. And he said, look, it cannot be some type of allergy because these diets are radically different and it’s different food. And he just, he’s mentioned that he’s been trying everything and he’s been.
You know, just in that place, and I know what that felt like. Of course, I was doing that during my own injury of just trying everything I could find. And so I want to answer that specific question because I see it a lot now. The answer is different than a lot of people would think, and this is what I commonly see.
So first off, as we dive in, I want to remind you if you’ve ever heard of the topic before of emotional eating, that so often people may eat because they’re feeling stressed or they’re feeling overwhelmed, or they feel, uh, insecure or for a variety of different reasons, like the, the, uh, the terminology of comfort vote, or.
There’s also another terminology, another wording called guilty pleasures, or, you know, eating when people have guilt towards what they’re eating. So if we stop and think about it for a moment, there can be a lot of different emotions regarding food and we know that. And so often I see these play this invisible role in people’s lives and they don’t realize it’s happening.
And by the way, it can happen both in positive ways. Or it can happen in negative ways. So I’ll give you some examples because what can happen is when a person goes on a diet for a particular type of food, it can impact them either way. And a lot of times when I see those changes, whether it’s positive or negative, it’s linked to some type of emotional component and people just don’t realize it’s happening.
And I’ll give you, I’ll start off with a positive example first for a moment. A lot of times I’ll see people. Who, let’s say they start eating vegan and or vegetarian or whatnot. What can happen is this, I’ve seen people who felt just general patterns of guilt in life where they felt like a guilty person, uh, you know, guilt for this, guilt for that.
But let’s say then somebody suddenly starts eating vegan or vegetarian, and because of that way of eating, they can suddenly. Feel like what a good person, and I can’t tell you how often I’ve seen this happen, where then somebody feels like they’re eating vegan or vegetarian and they feel proud of it.
They feel like a really good person. That’s a huge emotional shift. And so all of the time, what I’ve ended up seeing is I’ll see people who have made a radical shift started feeling radically better attributed it. To the diet alone. And then after a while it wore off because it wasn’t such a big emotional shift anymore.
And then they said, well, wait a second. What is it? And then I’ve seen people like literally trying to chase down their food. To figure out what it was not realizing. It was the emotional shift from going from a pattern of feeling guilty all the time, or even guilty eating to then feeling like a good person.
Now, by the way, as in, in this example, it doesn’t have to necessarily be towards food. It can be that a person felt guilty for. Stepping on a person’s toes or accidentally doing this, or accidentally doing that. So it could just be a, a small guilt pattern that just shows up in a, a bunch of different ways.
But if a person then makes that shift to feeling like a good person, that can be quite a big emotional shift, at least initially. And I, and I’ve seen that so often, which in that case could actually energize a person and make them feel even better. But I’ve seen other cases. Now I’ll, I’ll give you another scenario that I see all of the time.
I’ll see all of the time. This is the, a common, very sweet, very thoughtful one. But I’ve seen this all of the time where, let’s say there’s a couple who’s married and let’s say the husband falls sick with something, and so the wife lovingly is looking at all of these different diets. What diets would be great, and then puts her husband on these diets.
Now then what can happen is that he can feel like he’s being punished, like he can feel resentful, angry, upset, un included from things starving. There’s a variety of different things so he can feel angry and upset, and. And I just, I’ve seen it so often. I have so much compassion. I get it. And, and part of the, part of what makes me laugh is just that I’ve had couples that where I’ve worked with before where, where we bring up this topic and he’s like, oh my gosh, you get it.
And, uh. And I do, and of course then helping him to shift his emotions and mindset and, and it’s sweet. ’cause then they, they reconnect in a, in a, in a beautiful way. But that’s my point is just that there are so many emotions when it comes to food. Now what can also happen is I’ve seen people even do that to themselves where they go to go on a special diet because they just want to heal more than anything.
And so they go on this diet. And when they’re on this diet, they feel like now they can’t join everybody for dinner. And now they can’t do this and they can’t go there and they can’t, and then it feels very limiting. So then it can feel tiring. It can feel boring, it can feel like disconnecting. And of course we need love and connection.
We as human beings, we need that. You know, if you think about it, even in, um, research has shown that an infant. Who gets enough, uh, food, who gets all the right food and nutrition, if they don’t have love, they can actually die. And so when you stop and think about it in that way, we need love. We need love.
So what can happen sometimes is people will start a diet and then feel like it disconnects them from others. If it’s disconnecting them, then that can feel tired or exhausting, or people can feel very frustrated like, oh, I have to eat this thing, you know? And I get it. Were there ever times that I did that During my injury?
Yes. Uh, because I was just trying every cleanse, detox fast you could possibly think of to just try to heal. So I absolutely understand it and. That’s the insight that I want to share with you is because I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people spend years trying to figure out what this was or what that was not realizing that there was this invisible emotional connection to food that they weren’t aware of.
And then when they became aware of that, they could see how they, they could consciously respond in a different way. They could consciously notice what was coming up for them. And then transform it. And so those are the insights that I could share with you from today is exactly that, is that if you are on a certain type of diet, what are your emotions regarding it?
Are, are they resentful? Are they angry? Are they upset? Because I have seen people go on diets and they force themselves or put a loved one on a diet, and the person gets more upset, more stressed, more angry, and simultaneously their health starts going worse and worse and worse. I’ve seen that many times.
And so just food for thought, if you will. Uh, that looking at this in your own life. And so what you could do is just notice how does food make you feel? Is it making you feel guilty or disconnected or connected or what? What is coming up for you? And genuinely we willing to. Create a positive relationship with food ’cause we need food.
Um, and so often it affects people’s emotions even more than they realize that I’ve seen people eat certain things and by the way, then sit there and beat themselves up over and over about what they’re eating or what they’re doing. That is another thing. Also, somebody will go on a diet and it turns into this huge cycle of beating themselves up because they’re quote unquote, supposed to be eating a certain way, and then every time they mess up.
They beat themselves up for it. So that’s another thing. I mean, it just shows up in so many ways. And so just again, food for thought and, um, inviting you to look at this in your own life. And of course, as always, I want to invite you to hit the share button on this episode. You know, share it with somebody you love, somebody you care about, or somebody you don’t even know.
Because the more that. Every single person is healthy and happy and loved and loving, truly, the better this world is for all of us. So please do hit the share button. And by the way, if you are somebody who wants a deeper understanding about how mind body healing works, because these emotions, all of them can actually of course, impact the health and.
In a big, big, big way. And that’s of course why I end up seeing it so often is because people don’t realize that’s what’s happening. And so if you are somebody who wants a, uh, an understanding of how mind body healing works, there is a link in the show notes available. And on that note, I wish you an incredible, happy, healthy rest of your day.
I look forward to connecting with you on the next episode, and we’ll see you there.
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