Dr. Becky Kennedy

If that part of you doesn't get fed, then she's starving and she will scream out to you for her own survival.

So a very concrete first step, I would say, is you need to start somewhere.

It could be this week and you need to book something on your calendar and keep that appointment the way you would keep your kid's school play.

Literally, it could be.

And this is the other thing I want to say to so many people.

They say, but I don't even know what I'm

I don't even know what I would enjoy for myself.

We can't use that to stop us from trying something.

Again, Emma, if your friend was starving and hadn't eaten food for a month and she was at a restaurant and said, I don't even know what I'd want on the menu.

You'd say, order anything, by the way.

Yeah.

Then you'll know I like that.

I didn't like it.

And you'll know more the next time.

Just do something.

But if you've been starving...

The answer isn't to order nothing and wait to know what you want.

The whole reason you're starving is because you've learned to distance yourself from what you want.

So put to the side that you're supposed to know what would feel good.

You could try a walk.