I identify as a compulsive overeater, recovering, and a sugar addict. I didn’t create the language, but it’s mine. Compulsive is an adjective describing an irresistible urge, especially against a person’s conscious wishes. Addicted is an adjective as well. So […]
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We Know the Rules
We are compulsive eaters. We have been for a while and so we’ve learned the diets, the tricks, the quick fixes, the mind games, the wardrobe gimmicks. We’ve joined programs, paid great sums, clipped plans from magazines, tried them, succeeded […]
Continue reading »Eating Vegetables
I ate like a Hoover but seldom were vegetables anything more than a ruse, a pretense that healthy food passed my lips. I ate veggies in public and binged on pastries, ice cream, raw dough… anything that wasn’t green or […]
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These are the products of my self-centered fear: negativity, anxiety, living in a future not yet formed with an ungrateful heart. I see only what my disease has taken from me — everything that I “deserved.” ~ Voices of Recovery […]
Continue reading »Burning Bushes All Around
Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb. ~ Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B Ordinary holiness, a blessed existence, a consciousness of the presence of […]
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