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We first envisioned an article about trauma a few years ago.
Over and over, we’d seen clients who checked out when they ate. Or shut down during workouts.
Or who raged when we made a relatively innocuous nutritional suggestion. (Like, “Consider eating slowly today.”)
Or who panicked. Disappeared. Became distressed. Got paralyzed.
Or seemed unable to cope with overwhelming urges to eat, restrict, purge, binge drink, or do a variety of other unhelpful behaviors.
As their coaches, we looked for individual explanations.
And we found them.
Painful childhoods with abusive or absent adults. Sexual assault. Emotional neglect. Substance…