What words will convey to the practicing compulsive overeater that life can be far better than imagined. ~ For Today (Kindle Locations 1214-1215).

How can I speak through your misery?
How can my words break through the barrier
you’ve built to protect yourself, to hide behind?
Your food behaviors and the body image
they engender are your punishing yourself,
your hiding from the fear, your defense.
How can I offer to take away the fear,
the guilt, the misery? I only have words.
But I have truth. How I moved through misery.
How the barrier of food behaviors weakened
finally, how I found hope and peace and joy.
And all it took was honest words
from people who had been there,
from others who had walked the path.