Food addiction - link with mental health, how do I break the cycle?

I've got quite a lot in my arsenal against this.

Yoga and meditation help you stay in touch with yourself, how you are feeling. They help you experience the bad stuff, knowing it will pass. Food helps me dissociate, it helps me not feel or be present, which can feel very uncomfortable to me, given my history of trauma and abuse. Yoga and meditation help me know it's safe to feel and be, even if it's uncomfortable, I don't have to zone out, which is ultimately what binge eating let me do.

Another huge help is positive affirmations. It's something I did for a long time, all the time, over and over. "I am capable, I am lovable I am whole." OVer and over, like a mantra. Don't think about what you're saying or try to believe it. Just recite it as often and as long as you can.

Journal. Write 3 pages a day. It doesn't have to be good or interesting or meaningful or insightful or whatever. It can be "I don't know what to write" over and over for three pages, just hit the page count. Of you require 3 pages a day of yourself, the interesting and meaningful stuff will come eventually, without you trying to make it happen.

A lot of this comes down to spending time with yourself. Listening to yourself. Paying attention to your feelings. It sounds simple but it isn't at all. It takes time and practice.

One last thing along these lines that may seem very odd but just try it, look for signs from the universe. Look for signs that the universe wants you to do something or stop doing something or that you're on the right path. You don't actually get signs from the universe, this is actually a conversation you're having with yourself. If you struggle to trust your own intuition, a much easier way to do it is to interpret symbols in the world around you.

This is all really about learning who you really are, what you really want, what will make you feel happy and satisfied and not wanting to binge eat every night. It's SHOCKINGLY hard to do and it takes a light hand. So, don't try all of these things at once and be as kind to yourself as possible. You deserve that.