Getting Emotional About Emotional Eating

Last night I got into an argument about emotional eating with someone who’d commented on a post of mine from 6 days ago

In hindsight - I should have ignored him.

He was talking absolute nonsense, ignoring everything I was saying and just flinging weird accusations and non sequiturs at me

Something I heard on a podcast recently summed it up;

It’s a bad enough feeling as a human when someone disagrees with your carefully thought out ideas, but it’s worse when they tell you you’re stupid for points you’ve not actually ever made.

I don’t get many people disagreeing with what I post (due to a small audience, not my absolutely flawless body of work)

Yet it still stings a bit when I do - I think that’s human. I think it’s pointless to tell people to ‘just ignore it’ when someone is calling them out on their own posts - for most people, that just isn’t doable.

I think the key thing is to allow yourself to feel crap about it all you like

As long as it doesn’t change what you post.

I’m a big fan of posting your beliefs and thoughts, trying to post things differently, coming at things from different angles - because that’s what stands out.

But naturally when you stick your head above the parapet, people are inevitably going to take pot shots.

So I let it feel crap, let it make me question whether I do know what I’m on about

Wake up the next day - and post more of it.

Today I’m planning out 5 posts that are equally, if not more ‘disruptive’ than the one this bloke didn’t like.

You can worry about what people think all the time

Except for when you’re writing content.

If you worry about it when you write content? You will either write safe, uninteresting work - or worse, nothing at all.

Allow yourself room to be human and feel that sense of ‘rejection’

But also remind yourself that responses like that are often signs you’re doing the right things, and posting the right work.

If they think they’re upset now? Wait until you sit down and give them another 7 things for the week to bring on the tears