Hello and welcome to enlightened empaths your community for the spiritually awakened.

Today we're going to be discussing food and the empath.

How certain foods may affect you and way in the ways that some empaths use food to deflect or

absorb all the emotions that we empaths feel. So some empaths, especially

those who aren't really in touch with the fact that they are an empath,

that they are actually picking up on other people's emotions and energy,

may use food as a way of shielding or protecting themselves from all the excess energy they feel, which can lead to weight issues

and sometimes in the extreme even food addiction. Food does ground our energy, but as with anything in life when done to excess it causes

numerous issues. So I think this is a pretty important topic for us to cover

Denise because we all have to eat food and as Empaths we all feel a lot of energy and

so I think bringing in awareness to what we're feeling how we're feeling and

how it's relating to the food we're eating is really important.

And this has been coming up a lot for more and more people is, why can't I lose this weight,

why am I so much heavier?

I've talked to a lot of other mediums about this that, you know,

that they'll talk about that, you'll protect your solar plexus, you'll protect your gut,

you'll put on this extra weight as an emotional barrier.

And there's science behind this, but there's also for many of us who, and I,

this is my episode. I nailed the test by the way.

If food was ever used as a reward system so you know I can remember this vividly being the kid, my riding with my mother and she said,

Oh, let's go get a cone. Everything was like, you know, an ice cream go, let's get, it was feeding that as a reward system or you know the emotional

connection with family time and eating or you know the safe thing that one thing we might have

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