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The Weekly Fill

Day Four: Food is Not An All-Purpose Tool

The real reason you keep turning to food and how to finally shift the cycle.

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Alexa Schirm
Nov 13, 2025
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Phew! I know, we’ve been moving through some big things. The good news? Change doesn’t have to be hard or overwhelming. It’s always rooted in perspective shifts, and you’ve already started that work.

If you want to see exactly how to stop relying on food as your all-purpose tool and start building a life where food actually supports you, keep reading. And if you haven’t yet, subscribe…this series is just getting good.

Now that you’ve shifted that perspective and understand what’s possible, it’s time to live it out. To create a lived experience.

Presence is the deepest inner circle. Not because it’s the least important, but because it’s the most aligned. When you’ve walked through your past and visioned your future, you eventually arrive here. at the center. The present.

How you live here shapes how you interact with everything else. It becomes your essence, your rhythm, your energy, and ultimately, your life. This is where the story becomes real. Where belief turns to embodiment, and it’s where we’re headed today!

In the world of food freedom, this means using your view of food as support, your body as an ally, and your health as a tool to create the lived experience that reinforces your story.

Food will continue to feel like a “problem,” even if you rewrite the story, if you don’t have the internal resources to support that new story.

It also means assuming the best about yourself and your body. Instead of defaulting to the worst —like thinking, “I’ll fail, I have no control, I can’t do this” — you initially pay attention to what your body needs and respond with better options.

That means putting food back in its intended place.

Food: Using it as the tool it was meant to be!

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