Pixie Turner > Quotes

“Imagine your logical brain and emotional core as two characters. When you let them each have their space and their say, without your logical brain talking over your emotional core, you may be surprised at what you hear.”
― Pixie Turner, Food Therapy

“Defence mechanisms are strong barriers, and they can be helpful or unhelpful, and the degree of their usefulness can change with time. They are strong walls that we put up to protect ourselves from others and ourselves. They are the walls around our castles. The stronger they are, the more they protect us in times of need. But in times of peace, when the threat has passed, they remain there. Just in case. We feel as if we're still protecting ourselves, but really we're keeping other people out. For some of us that includes keeping ourselves too”
― Pixie Turner, Food Therapy

“Logically we may know it. But emotionally, if we believe differently, that has greater power.”
― Pixie Turner, Food Therapy

“What outwardly presents as emotional eating is at its core, an inability to accept the self. This, like so many things, is learned. No one is born feeling that they're not good enough.”
― Pixie Turner, Food Therapy

“A negative body image is often defined as an external manifestation of an internal struggle. Because it's more acceptable to say 'i want to change my body' rather than 'i feel that im wrong as a person'.

When you focus on your body your brain thinks it's solving the problem. Except it's not.

Long term, self acceptance is the answer.”
― Pixie Turner, Food Therapy

“A person has intrinsic value, no matter what.”
― Pixie Turner, Food Therapy

“Shame is learned. And at a young age we may internalize the idea that we are to blame for what happens to us.”
― Pixie Turner, Food Therapy

“Shame is a sneaky little bastard. It worms its way into your brain and tells you that you are a bad person. Shame says 'i am a had person'- it's based on identity. It goes beyond the action to your fundamental core as a human being. It is an intensely painful feeling or experience, that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging.”
― Pixie Turner, Food Therapy