You’ve Been Using the Word “Treat” Wrong

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What if the word “treat” doesn’t mean what we’ve been taught to think it means?

In today’s episode of Living Life Unbinged, I’m sharing a simple moment at my son’s football game that completely changed the way I think about food, rewards, and the word treat itself.

For years, like most families, we used the word “treat” to describe candy, ice cream, or sweets after events and activities. But during one ordinary night sitting in the bleachers with my husband and kids, I realized something powerful:

The candy wasn’t the real treat. The moment already was 

The laughter.
The family time.
The beautiful evening.
The gift of being together.

That was the treat.

 In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How language shapes our relationship with food
• Why we often connect rewards and comfort to sweets
• A simple mindset shift that changes how you view “treats”
• How reframing words can help break unhealthy food patterns
• Why gratitude helps loosen food’s emotional power
• How to teach children a healthier perspective around food and rewards

This episode is a gentle reminder that the best parts of life were never meant to come from sugar or snacks, they come from the gifts God has already placed around us every single day.

Because sometimes the real treat is the moment you’re already living.

Make it a great day!

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Transcript

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I am about to forever change the way you use the word treat. T-R-E-A-T, treat. It's going to change right after you listen to this episode. Several years back, my kids and I were at a football game. My son was playing football. So I have a son and four daughters. So he was playing football, and my four girls and my husband and I were just sitting watching, enjoying the night. My girls asked me if they could get a treat at halftime. And so I said, sure guys, we can get a treat at halftime. Everyone can pick out a treat. It was almost like in that moment, God shined light on that word for me because we throw that around. Let's get a treat, right? Everyone can pick out something from the snack bar. And I quickly realized and I paused. I literally put a pause on life, I felt like, and I said, Hey, you know what? Listen for a second. And I told my husband and my girls, I said, girls, you can each pick out a candy at halftime. The treat is already happening right here, right now. We are sitting here, beautiful day, healthy, whole, mom, dad, four girls watching our brother play football. He's doing well. We're having fun, just enjoying this time together. This is the treat. But absolutely, you can each pick out a candy at halftime. That was the moment that that word changed for me because we throw it around, right? Like, let's get a treat. And it almost always refers to something sweet, right? Whether it's from a snack bar or driving through and getting ice cream after a game. It's usually some sort of sweet thing that we call a treat. But life in and of itself and the gifts of life is a treat. And so I stopped saying it. That literally was a moment, an epiphany, whatever you want to call it. That word stopped being used in connection with any kind of food. The treat is life, is the gift of God, is the gift of family, is the gift of good, whole, healthy, wonderful food. That's the treat. If you want to eat a sweet or a candy, that's different. Call it that. But we don't need to call it a treat. So I encourage you to listen around you. Listen when you say it or you hear it, because it's a lot more often than you think. And after this episode, you're going to be hearing it and you're going to be able to reframe that in your own mind and for your own family. So as we wrap this episode up, I want you to go look for the treats in your day. The treats, the gift of life that God has given you and all the little things that we get to enjoy as treats. And I want to call them that. Let's reframe it. Share this with someone who you think also could use it. And let's start using the word treat the way it was meant to be.