Purpose: For meals with other people, when being watched makes eating harder than it already is.
When to use: Use this before or after a meal with others that you were dreading.
Worksheet prompts
- Which meals with other people are hardest for you?
Work lunch, family dinner, a date, eating in front of someone new. - What are you worried they are noticing?
- Think back over the last few. What made a difference either way?
- What is one thing you could set up before the next one?
Choose the place, sit facing away, go with someone easy.
Most people at the table are thinking about their own plate. It rarely feels that way.