I have to laugh because when my daughter was little, like 2 years old, I used diversion A LOT to get her to stop doing the unwanted behavior she was doing! And for the most part it worked. It would have done me no good to try to reason with her because her undeveloped brain would have laughed me out the door.
So would it be safe to say that diversion should work for adults who want to stop doing the behavior they are doing because their brains are highly developed?
ABSOLUTELY NOT! It’s why diversion WON’T work.
Diversion is only going to last for so long and then your highly developed brain is going to realize it has some major unsolved issues it needs to deal with but isn’t, and your brain is going to tell your body to go ahead and binge to cover it up.
So forget the cover ups, forget avoiding dealing with crappy situations and stress at home and work and get to the root cause of binging so you can go out and play golf for the fun of it!
-Nadine