Some strategies to overcome the fear involved with social eating may include:

• Creating your own traditions or bringing a dish to add to the mix.
• Giving some thought to the belief patterns about foods and eating that you inherited from your family and decide whether these are still valid for you.
• Creating new belief patterns and enforce them with your new way of eating.
• Creating a community of individuals with like-minded thoughts about eating to get together on a regular basis to share a meal.