If You Aren’t Changing It, You Are Choosing It
Have you ever caught yourself reaching for a chocolate bar not because you’re hungry, but because you need a time-out from feeling overwhelmingly stressed?
All eating is emotional eating: we eat a piece of cake when we want to celebrate special occasions, we indulge in ice cream when we’re sad (or at least see famous people do it on TV). We even put food in different categories, such as “comfort food” and “treats”. Food truly is one of the greatest pleasures – we should never restrict or undervalue it. Yet, emotional eating can become a serious problem when we try to eat our emotions into oblivion. Chocolate for fear? Pizza for stress relief? Just like any addictive substance it can make us feel better, but only for a very short time until all our emotions come back fuelled by guilt and accompanied by digestion issues.
No matter if you’re a freelancer, business owner or have an office job, stress is often one of the most constant elements of professional life. It affects our productivity, creativity, eating habits, and quality of life. But not necessarily for the worse.
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This is a magazine for creatives, founders and freelancers, and it’s focused on mental health.
It’s based on long form conversations diving deep into what usually gets left out in interviews. The bad days. The impostor syndrome. All sorts of fears and an overwhelming anxiety that follow every brave choice a person ever makes.
From essays about the millenial generation working to a point they find themselves too busy to have sex, to vulnerable first person letters talking about changing professions, making bold decisions and looking after one’s mind before looking for funding.
Emotional eating is being addressed alongside helpful tips on how not to eat one's emotions. Also, the reader will find some quirky recipes for emotional snacking, if an emergency deadline happens.
Lastly, the magazine questions what happens to one's career after getting pregnant and welcoming a new life to this planet (and your ‘to do’ list).
It’s funny, sad at times, vulnerable to the backbone, and it aims to start a much needed conversation about mental health at work.
