Not sure if you are ready for this post, or if I am, but its been brewing….so here it is.   Over the past twenty years as a psychologist I have worked with and through so much. I have spent my career studying emotion regulation, trauma, eating disorders, and personality disorders (the overlap unmistakable)...

  When you restrict your eating in any way, your body adapts by entering starvation mode. Starvation mode is an evolutionary and biologically driven physiological mechanism designed to keep you alive. In cave person years, when food was not plentiful, the body would adapt by slowing down metabolism and digestion, reducing heart rate, and conserving...