The Beyond The Food Show |empowering|educating|women|health|mind Body Connection

Power or Control Let us start with this question: Do you want to be in your power with food, or do you want to control food? Do you want to be in your power with your body, or do you want to control your body? My own relationship to power and control has been different at different stages of my life. I spent most of my teens developing my power and being punished for it. In fact, I was labeled as a rebel because I was in my power. Over the years of being told over and over again that what I was being a daughter, a girlfriend, a young woman in her power wasn't right, I started to doubt myself and my ways. From my mid-twenties to early '40s, I spent seeking control. If being in my power was wrong, then the opposite should be right. Now, let's be clear. I didn't wake up thinking, "Oh well, power doesn't work, let me try control." That's not how it happened. On the contrary, it was subtle. Instead of being punished for being in my power, I was being rewarded by society for "being in control." That is to say, I wa