Healing your relationship with sugar
A sugar abstinence is only one part of the journey in healing your relationship with sugar. As you move out of this phase, you move into relating to sugar over the long haul.
In this stage, your healing deepens from the physical to the emotional – where you begin to turn towards your sugar cravings and to heal the relationship you have to sugar itself.
This process unfolds as all relationships do, with trust, patience, caring and its own timing. It also has its own wisdom.
Over time, as you become more intimate with the emotions, needs, and dynamics that lead you to sugar, you become more confident in attuning to yourself and honoring the cry of sugar – what it’s really pointing to.
During this stage, many people experiment with eating sugar again, in a more conscious, intentional or mindful way. For some people, they discover that added sugar is something they can’t or choose not to eat. For others, they may find times when they do eat sugar – but not in a compulsive way.
As you create an integrated relationship with sugar, you develop the wisdom and sovereignty to know when to say no to sugar (setting limits) and when – and how – to say yes. And as you heal your relationship with sugar, sugar itself becomes a doorway to healing, a place where compassion can unfold in your life, in the place where you struggle the most.