Emotional Satiation Ideas
When first starting to discover the difference between physical and emotional hungers, it can feel confusing and unknown how to satiate emotional hungers in non-food ways. Our emotional hungers are satisfied differently with connection, communication, and understanding. If food has always been your go to for all your hungers and you feel stumped as to how to satiate your emotional hungers in other ways, here are some suggestions of different regulating acts you can choose to begin to give yourself a choice to choose something beyond food.
Shaking, rocking, hugging yourself
Listen to music with or without dancing
Find someway to laugh
Co-regulate with a friend, an object, a pet
Get into nature
Play a game
Physical movement of any kind
Keep your hands busy with journaling, artwork, knitting, organizing
Stimulate your mind in a new way with a book or podcast
Throw a temper tantrum
Baths
Reading
Writing
Positive affirmations
Gardening
Singing
Showers
Coloring
Taking pictures
Meditate
Get out of your home and have a solo adventure
Hiking
Walk around your neighborhood
Clean a room in your home
Make some tea
Take a nap
Go bowling
Go out and see a movie or a show
Play a video game