Addiction Recovery

If you are reading this, “where you are” has something to do with your eating, your weight, your addictive compulsive behaviors that leave you feeling out of control and longing for relief.

What if just for this moment, you could find a way to make peace with that? As you have heard me say, going into resistance and trying to make changes from going head to head in a power-play, with food or anything else, will not do the trick. People who succeed in releasing addictions and self-defeating habits typically do something very different. They surrender.

I know you are reading this wanting to argue with me and explain to me why that will not work for you- why you have to “do” something to “make” this all go away. I know, I know I hear you- don’t forget, I am just like you!

Having learned very well what does not work, I want to offer you support around making peace with all of this.

You are where you are- allowing yourself to own either the number on the scale, the size pants you are in, or the despair you feel, allows you to find peace and move towards a solution that can serve you. Shame and self-hate will not.

You must find a way to access some compassion for the parts of you, or the situations, or the behaviors that have taken you to this place.

I have always believed that an addiction is an opportunity to embark on a powerful, sacred journey towards healing. If your weight and your eating are the vehicle that move you to do that, then you have a chance to claim this situation for your highest good. Or you could beat your self up some more- for all the good THAT has done you.

What if all of the struggles with eating and your weight were part of your “path”? Would you change how you looked at all this? I believe it’s a very helpful perspective- it takes you out of self-pity, and victim-consciousness and allows you to see it as the way that you will move through challenges into a new and even enlightened place.

Your journey out of food addiction can be a fire-walk, for sure, but what you find out about yourself and what you are made of can serve you powerfully and deeply for the rest of your life.

Your choice.

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