Category: Family of Choice
A Compulsive Eater Powerless to Stop
I’ve eaten all my life, hungry or not. Food is more than nourishment of body but a comfort when afraid, a solace for insults suffered, a way to rejoice, a remedy to placate guilt when I act without thinking through […]
Continue reading »We Are Not a Glum Lot
The diet mentality made us all glum, defensive, angry. That’s what many of us expected here in the rooms of recovery. Imagine someone…a lot of someones learning what you did to hide your eating, to keep people from knowing you […]
Continue reading »Running Away
I never ran away. My sister Carol and I would take mystery walks, tossing a coin at street corners, heads for left, tails right… until we were getting tired and tossed until we’d get home quicker. The one time I […]
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