180: How Creative Activities Can Support Intuitive Eating

Welcome back to Thrive Beyond Size, friends. Heading into winter and the holiday season, I’ve been really leaning into my crafts. I’ve done crafting my whole life, things like DIY kits and paint by numbers, and I’ve just found it very comforting and relaxing for me. So I want to talk about how doing crafts can support your journey with intuitive eating. I know! You’re saying “What the hell does one have to do with the other” but bear with me. Crafting helps cultivate mindfulness by keeping us in the present moment. It helps us reconnect with the pleasure principle and reduces stress and these are all the same things we work on when we engage with intuitive eating. So let’s explore that.    

There are clear links between creativity and self-care. There’s a level of mindfulness and being present that being immersed in doing a craft brings to us. We get more in tune with our bodies, our senses, how the yarn feels, and what the paint colors look like, and that awareness is also what helps us tune into our body’s hunger cues. Like many things, we are not always masters of the crafts we pick up. They’re not about the finished product and having a side hustle, they’re about relaxation and creative expression. So by that metric, we learn to embrace a more compassionate attitude towards mistakes which also helps us in our attitude towards food. And that’s what I dive into in this episode. How we can thrive by having a sense of agency, by channelling energy into a craft, and by creating a sense of joy and satisfaction which is a direct parallel to what we cultivate within our bodies when we practice intuitive eating.

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About Dr. Michelle Tubman:

Dr. Michelle Tubman is certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which means she understands exactly what's happening in your body when you diet. Although she does not provide any medical advice in her coaching programs, this knowledge gives her an edge over most coaches.

She also holds Level 1 and Level 2 Precision Nutrition coaching certifications which make her skilled at coaching nutrition, dietary change, and habit change in general. Realizing that emotional eating and bingeing are complicated for most of us, she also did training in mind-body and intuitive eating. Peace around food is possible.

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