Reality Checks

Last night at our support group, a woman was talking about an assignment her therapist gave her. The woman has gone through alot since her WLS and traded a food addiction for alcohol. Then realized that and cut that out only to replace that with shopping and lest us not forget internet addiction. Her assignment from her therapist was to sit and evaluated what emotion she was feeling when she felt the need for: food, alcohol, shopping/spending or getting on the net. She doesn't have to figure out where the root of the emotion is coming from, what triggered it, what caused it, etc but to recognize the emotion and name it. Is it anger? Is it lonliness? Is it sadness? Etc. Many of us, stuff feelings by eating or now doing other behaviors in order to not recognize, acknowledge or "feel" the emotion. She is going to share the list of emotions and what her therapist provided her. I'll share once I get the info. Thought it was something that might benefit some of us, as well. Kathy