Update on guided journey

You might remember the guided journey I bought from IOWL a few weeks ago. What has happened since then?
I was listening regularly to the journey, working very hard on the conflicts (there are many), when suddenly one day, I stopped listening. Overnight I changed from listening to the journey twice a day to not doing [...]

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How Runaway Bride found her favorite eggs

Once people with eating disorders start to get their heads on straight, they find out there’s lots of things they don’t know how to do. Rather than make decisions, they (read I) used to eat until the decision was no longer necessary.
Maggie Barnes (Julia Roberts) in Runaway Bride had the same problem.  She’d fall in [...]

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Anatomy of a binge

Brownies were my binge food for toothache (yes, I get the irony).
Chips and crunchy snacks were the binges for work stress. When the salt had overpowered my mouth so much that it hurt, I would add dip or sweets to make me feel better.
Chocolate was my binge food for sadness.
All of those foods never made [...]

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Best. Birthday. Ever.

The guided journey certainly seems to be helping me cope with everyday stresses. Formerly I would eat in response to stress, but often I now can recognize that stress comes from competing wishes, and I need to make my decision about those wishes, not eat to suppress and postpone the inevitable.
For my birthday, everything went [...]

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