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Transform Your Relationship Yourself and Others
Many people living with eating and body troubles eventually discover that the behaviors were never truly about food. Whether through GLP-1 medications, abstinence, or temporary periods of control, once the behavior quiets, the underlying emotional pain becomes far more visible. These patterns function as maladaptive coping strategies—ways to manage distress, numb overwhelming emotions, or create a sense of control when life feels unmanageable.
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As the behaviors stop, individuals often experience increased vulnerability, emotional dysregulation, and unresolved trauma surfacing to awareness. For many, this clarity can feel destabilizing; the absence of the old coping mechanism reveals deeper needs for somatic healing, secure attachment, emotional maturity, and spiritual grounding. The common thread is not a lack of willpower, but the absence of deeper healing--an inability to access the peace of emotional regulation, self-compassion, and meaning.
Many people living with eating and body troubles eventually discover that the behaviors were never truly about food. Whether through GLP-1 medications, abstinence, or temporary periods of control, once the behavior quiets, the underlying emotional pain becomes far more visible. These patterns function as maladaptive coping strategies—ways to manage distress, numb overwhelming emotions, or create a sense of control when life feels unmanageable.
Join the mailing list for the next workshop at https://bbafood.com or https://wholeinoursoul.weebly.com/
As the behaviors stop, individuals often experience increased vulnerability, emotional dysregulation, and unresolved trauma surfacing to awareness. For many, this clarity can feel destabilizing; the absence of the old coping mechanism reveals deeper needs for somatic healing, secure attachment, emotional maturity, and spiritual grounding. The common thread is not a lack of willpower, but the absence of deeper healing--an inability to access the peace of emotional regulation, self-compassion, and meaning.
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For some, recovery from substances such as alcohol or drugs revealed that food, body control, or compulsive behaviors became the new outlet for emotional dysregulation. For others, the cycle never paused long enough to glimpse another way of living. The common thread is not a lack of willpower, but the absence of deeper healing—an inability to access tools for emotional regulation, secure attachment, self-compassion, and meaning-making.
Modern behavioral health frameworks—including psychology, social work, trauma-informed practice, and emotional intelligence research—affirm what spiritual traditions and the 12-Step model have taught for decades:
Sustainable change requires an internal shift.
Once a person stops acting out with their substance or behavior of choice, the unresolved emotional, relational, and spiritual wounds rise to the surface. What emerges is not a failure of abstinence—it is an invitation to develop emotional sobriety, emotional maturity, and an awakened relationship with oneself and with God (as each person understands their own version of God).
Modern behavioral health frameworks—including psychology, social work, trauma-informed practice, and emotional intelligence research—affirm what spiritual traditions and the 12-Step model have taught for decades:
Sustainable change requires an internal shift.
Once a person stops acting out with their substance or behavior of choice, the unresolved emotional, relational, and spiritual wounds rise to the surface. What emerges is not a failure of abstinence—it is an invitation to develop emotional sobriety, emotional maturity, and an awakened relationship with oneself and with God (as each person understands their own version of God).
This workshop is designed for individuals who have reached that pivotal moment: the recognition that freedom will not come from controlling food, the body, or external circumstances, but from transforming the internal landscape that drives those patterns.
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Grounded in the Big Book Awakening (BBA) method, this program integrates:
- Evidence-informed behavioral concepts
- Trauma-aware principles
- Emotional intelligence and self-reflection skills
- Higher-power–centered spiritual development
- The peer-based, experiential wisdom of the 12 Steps
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Episodes
Friday Feb 02, 2018
Friday Feb 02, 2018
This is a dedicated step-study audio workshop using the 12 steps as outlined in the Big Book Awakening step-study method. We use the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous to recover from compulsive eating in the same way that the co-founder of AA, Bill Wilson, used the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous to recover from alcoholism. Learn more at www.wholeinoursoul.com and see our required materials checklist here.
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