Un/know.

Dis/agree.

Pause/Move on.

Breathe in.

Breathe Out.

“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”

Richard Rohr

Our Milk & Honey Musings on Plant-Based Living 

Is Plant-Based eating restrictive and triggering for disordered eating….?

This is hugely sensitive, and every individual is going to have different experiences. If you know that changing your diet in any way leads to you restricting, monitoring or controlling your food – then that is a matter completely for you, and never should anyone tell you otherwise. The experience shared below is not yours, and that’s OK. 

If it is interesting and/or helpful to read another experience, then our team-member Hannah shares her own ongoing recovery story here:

“Transitioning to a plant-based diet has been part of my long-term healing relationship with my body and the food I eat. It’s helped shift my focus from what I eat to how I eat. 

I found I could begin to make my own opinions – flexing when I wanted to and enjoying the benefit to my body and mind that a wholefood plant-based diet brought. I’ve never let myself become a ‘hardline’ vegan as I know that wouldn’t be a safe territory for me, I’ve just learned to listen to my body. It also gave me the opportunity to ‘re-learn’ food – to think about it in terms of the health of the planet, animals and my own body. New recipes, new ingredients, a new food vocabulary… its been fun. Its brought back food joy!

I started to think about food as part of a bigger cycle that plays into my wider beliefs, values, and who and what I care about, which widened my perspective (that had been narrowly fixed around a rigid set of self-imposed ‘rules’). It suddenly seemed like food wasn’t about control – whether that was of my own body, or being part of an enormous food system I’d never really thought about or questioned. For me, it’s felt a bit like freedom. 

It’s helped me make some sense of the wonderful Naomi Wolf quote, “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience.” Sex and body-shape aside, the truth that resonates for me within this is the idea that our hunger and compliance keeps us small and quiet. For me, embracing plant-based eating has been one small step along the road towards freedom in body and mind.”

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