October 15
If I just buy into a blanket justification, I may miss an opportunity to find the real problem…and solve it.
Case in point: I have a client who came in one week having eaten particulary badly (for her) with the jsutification that her husband had just gotten home from the hospital after having a heart attack. I asked her (honestly, I was not being sarcastic) what that had to do with her eating. I genuinely wanted to help her to figure out specifically how this was influencing what she was preparing or what ended up in her mouth. After a long, thoughtful pause, she laughed and said, “it has absolutely nothing to do with what I am eating. He is a vegetarian, If I were eating what I am making for him, I would be fine. I can’t even claim stress. He is OK.” There turned out to be several issues she did need to focus on, but they had nothing to do with her husband’s hospitalization or homecoming. She would never have even tried to ID it if she just bought into her own excuse.
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