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If you worry you don't have enough, you may have a scarcity mindset.

This can lead to worry and anxiety about running out of money, food, or other resources.

Through an internal family systems lens, this means you have parts who feel anxious about the future.

Other, protective parts will try and help by being hypervigilant and worrying about every penny.

Have you ever tried dieting? If so, the term ‘yo-yo dieting’ is probably familiar to you, because very sadly, this happens to most people who try to lose weight. If you’re determined to lose 20lb for that family wedding in the summer, you might manage that—especially in the age of Ozempic and other weight-loss jabs—but you might also put that weight straight back on. Research shows that most people who lose weight with the help of drugs like Ozempic put the weight back on within 18 months.1

Why does this happen? One reason is that our ancestors evolved in conditions where hardship and famine were facts of life. Droughts, diseases, a seasonal lack of prey or plants to forage, competition with neighbouring tribes, and natural disasters like wildfires or floods—life was tough for our hunter-gatherer forebears. And one way to maximise their chances of survival was to eat as much as possible when times were good,........

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