This blog is to help navigate pieces of myself. I've struggled for 10 yrs in therapy for numerous "disorders." I've found an intuitive approach to myself in a technique called the Internal Family System Model. Under no circumstances do I claim to be a therapist or provide internet therapy. This blog is for me and my "parts" to speak, express and gather feedback / validation. I no longer want to burden other people but need a place to release. I hope you find help or comfort in my experiences.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Part Led Travel
I'm currently on a business trip that is NOT going well. I wouldn't say "everything has gone wrong" but I WOULD say something has gone wrong in every part of my life.
Travel in general leads to temptation with my eating disorder. Travel for work is even worse. I, almost immediately, felt the all to familiar pull to binging and purging as I sat alone in my hotel room. I unconsciously returned to food rules that I never even knew I had. I started with obsessively drinking water. Then forced myself to go to the gym every day. I then began compensating for snacks. (You see, on these trips, the host company feeds us constantly! Every time I would snack, no matter if I was hungry or not, I would force myself to remove something from my next meal.... I have "made it all up" and then some by the end of the day, though.) And I must must MUST eat less than the men I'm traveling with. None of these thoughts are remotely consistent with all the work I have done to eat intuitively. I feel like I've regressed. I should know better! I have parts that are telling me I'm doing very poorly at recovery!
I did not REALLY WANT to go to the gym tonight. I wanted to chill out in my hotel room, do some writing and get a good night sleep. I couldn't give myself permission to do that. I tried and all kinds of my parts "puffed up." Some were scared. Some were mad. Some were relieved (fewer). Some were confused. Some were sad. Some were hurt. So I went to the gym and am up WAY too late again (not to metion, I have to be up in less than 6 hours to get tomorrow's gym time in).
I feel completely led by these parts right now. I feel like the victim on a runaway train. I am ENTIRELY unable to do what I want to do. I feel the trap of the eating disorder closing in around me. All I can do right now is pray that it does not go past normal eating / exercising (as of now the issue is in my head but not showing up on my plate to any degree of alarm) and that it will go away once I get back into my safe environment.
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