Gentle support to soften overeating and eat less sugar
How do we relate to what is young, and tender, and fragile - including what is young, and tender and fragile in us? This is the question that addiction asks of us. Recently, a friend of mine quit a chewing tobacco habit. Chewing was something he'd … [Read more]
Overeating is so often misunderstood, devalued, and feared. Overeating is so painful, and equally frustrating – something you long not to do but find yourself doing anyway. It can bring up embarrassment and shame about being “so out of control.” In … [Read more]
If you struggle with eating too much sugar or a sugar addiction, or if you simply want to transition into a low sugar diet, you may need to set some internal boundaries around how much sugar you eat. To do that, you need to gently, kindly and … [Read more]
The gift of depression Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of … [Read more]
I get lots of emails from people when they feel weary - when they’re feeling overwhelmed by sugar, when they feel lost, disoriented, or frightened, or when they’re feeling broken and hopeless, like they’ll never feel whole, with food or with … [Read more]
There's a line in an essay by mystic Thomas Merton where he writes of "the brutality of our will." This line reminds me of a fellow line, a lyric from a Wailin' Jennys' song: will we bite against the silence Fill our days with noise and … [Read more]