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Valerie Bertinelli became emotional as she opened her battle to maintain her sobriety while feeling “emotionally atrocious feelings”.
The former Food Network star, aged 65, who has been sober since January 2024, recently went to Instagram to publish several videos in which she managed to fight against the fight against the desire to drink during a difficult period of her life.
“I went through very intense, uncomfortable, sad and emotionally excruciating feelings in recent days, and I want to drink. I want to be moving it. I don’t want to feel it,” said Bertinelli.
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Valerie Bertinelli cried as she knew to fight to stay sober while feeling “emotionally atrocious feelings”. (Gilbert Flores / Variety via Getty Images)
She continued: “But my logical spirit is like” no, you don’t want to do that. You don’t want to be moving it. You know what will help you feel better is to feel feelings. Go to the other side. Have a good cry. “And yet, I can’t cry.”
The alum “One Day at Time” shared that she also had trouble resisting unhealthy food when she was dealing with her emotions. In recent years, Bertinelli has talked about his health career and his decision to stop weighing himself.
“I also want to eat it,” she said. “As I want to eat something that I know is not necessarily going to put a lot of vitamins and minerals and fibers and proteins in my body. The things my body needs. Because I just want to numb these feelings F — Ed-up.”
Valerie Bertinelli spoke for the first time to become sober in January 2024. (Nathan Congleton / NBC via Getty Images)
“So do you know what I’m going to do?” Bertinelli told his disciples in another clip. “I’m going to come on the internet and slice a watermelon because I like watermelon.”
“It’s the watermelon season, and a watermelon will make me feel better, but it won’t make me numb,” she added, tearing himself off.
The double winner of the Emmy Award prize carried out a watermelon on a cutting board and began to sculpt the fruit.
“Slice the watermelon with me, ok?” Bertinelli told his fans. “We are going to eat watermelon, but I don’t eat too many feelings.”
“I’m going to feel my feelings while I cut the watermelon,” she said, laughing.
In a follow -up video, Bertinelli began to cry by cutting the watermelon.
“It’s really good taste,” she said, showing the watermelon she cut in half. “This is my favorite period of the year. It’s the pastèques season.”
The actress explained that she also resisted the urge to eat unhealthy foods. (Dominik Bindl / Getty Images)
Bertinelli stressed the importance of facing painful emotions in a later clip.
“I have these feelings,” she said. “I’m not going to explain why I have them, where they come from, but I want to talk about feelings and how when we delete them, when we numb them, it makes them stronger.”
“And that doesn’t make us feel better about our skin,” she continued. “What is happening is when we numb them, we feel bad about what we have done to numb the feelings. So it adds to the shame that we could have about these feelings. And it just adds an additional layer of shame, which we don’t want. We just want to be, as if we are sad, we just want to be sad.”
Bertinelli explained that the choice of eating healthy foods like the watermelons made it “happy”.
“Because he has so good taste and there are vitamins, water and fibers and minerals,” said Bertinelli.
“And I couldn’t take my feelings,” she said, continuing to cry. “I just know that I feel sad and that it is just a feeling. It will pass. Because I’m strong, and I’m fine. It turns out that I feel sad right now, and I’m going to pass it, and you too. We don’t have to drink alcohol or eat food to numb feelings that we just need to feel, so that these feelings can then be heard.”
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Bertinelli explained the importance of “not numb my feelings”. (Getty Images)
“The feelings are information,” continued Bertinelli in the last video of his slideshow.
“So now, every time I want to wallow in my sadness, which I don’t want to do-I’m just going to have a watermelon bite and ask my feelings what they want to tell me,” she said, lifting a watermelon in slices.
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“I hope it was useful,” said the actress, laughing.
Bertinelli reiterated his message in the legend of his message, writing: “Feel your feelings. Do your best so as not to numb them. The feelings are information. Ask them what they need. Feel them. Go to the other side.”
In a follow -up article, Bertinelli shared a more joyful update when she expressed her gratitude to her supporters for their support. She noted how she felt less alone after the fans published their own stories of the fight against painful feelings in the comments.
“Hey, just a little thank you,” said television personality with a smile. “I am sometimes incredibly surprised and recalled and I remember how many incredible people there are there, so I just wanted to say thank you and thank you for sharing between them in my comments section, to support me, to support me. I support you.”
“It’s just a really great feeling when you don’t feel alone by feeling something,” she continued.
Bertinelli then shared a more joyful update and thanked his fans for their support. (Nathan Congleton / NBC / NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
“And I ended up eating the whole watermelon that day and I’m not ashamed of that,” said Bertinelli, laughing. “Because I always felt all my feelings. I arrived on the other side and I am in a better place and I am just grateful.”
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“And even for those of you who wrote how offended you, you know that you don’t have to watch my videos and you don’t have to say that you can simply continue. It’s good. I’m not going to disturb your world if you don’t want me to do it, but for all the rest of you, thank you. I love it to do all this together.”
