Working with Our Cravings & Addictions
by Jeanette Bronée

Your grown daughter texts that she’s getting divorced. You reach for the chocolate chip cookies. You get a promotion at work — and pour an extra glass of wine that night. Or you’re just not feeling on top of your game and potato chips and dip are always so comforting. We all know a little something about cravings and addictions, especially when it comes to what we eat.

Jeanette Bronée teaches people how to shift their understanding of nourishment so they can learn how to love what and how they eat. She brings together nutritional knowledge with mindful eating and an effective method for changing habits. Here she shares a few of her insights on working with cravings and addictions.

 

Working with Cravings and Additions by Janette Bronee

* Sweetness Options

We often use sweetness to either get energy or to self-soothe in a moment of feeling challenged. It can sometimes become a way to escape from the world. By paying attention, we can learn to make better choices — satisfying our desire for sweetness instead of automatically responding to unconscious cravings.

When you are craving sweetness:

  • A baked sweet potato can be very satisfying and nourishing
  • A sweet tea such as licorice and mint is a lovely way to self-soothe after a stressful day
  • Consider a simple teaspoon of honey instead of the cookie

Sweetness doesn’t come only in the form of food — experiment with gestures of self-care and generosity to discover ways to bring more sweetness into your life .

How do you bring sweetness into your life?

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  • Dorothy Sorlie; Jim Urness says:

    sounds interesting – look forward to learning. YES

  • ASHLEY LIEBERMAN says:

    Feelings last only 90 seconds, I’d like to hear more about that.

  • shelly says:

    my cravings aren’t usually sweet – i crave the salt…. chips & salsa, pretzels & hummus, cheese & crackers and they all go especially well with a glass of wine. 🙂

    • Jeanette says:

      Hi Shelly
      Perhaps just wonder what the salty “does for you”. Does it make you feel stronger for example. We are felt sense beings and our choices are about how we want to feel instead of what we feel in that particular moment. 🙂