Dietary Changes and the Five Stages of Grief (Part 2)
Following on from Part One where I talked about feelings of denial and anger in making major changes to diet and lifestyle, I wanted to continue in Part Two by discussing the final stages of grief – bargaining, depression and acceptance. We tend to associate grief only with really traumatic events like deaths, relationship breakups, or rehabilitating from serious addictions; however, when we have to eliminate certain foods or behaviours from our daily lives we can go through a similar, albeit less marked, grieving process. Hopefully this two part blog post will help to prepare those of you in the early stages of making changes for any negative emotions you may experience en route to acceptance! BargainingFor me this was easily the phase that lasted the longest! To an extent I still do it, but in a much less dramatic fashion! When I realised I was stuck in this phase, it marked a…
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