Sublime

Let go of everything but your sense of you in your body. Find neutrality.

The shame-bound get imprinted with these messages, like a recorded endless loop, a lowlight reel, operating in the background of their lives, creating in them the habit of feeling uneasy about their worth and unsure of our abilities.

Therapists who are willing can become this source of constancy and help fill the hole of what was missing in the early environment and missing in the client’s psyche.

It is not always easy to resist the voice that tells us we’re flawed. Don’t forget that advertisers give us just this message so we will spend our money attempting to fix ourselves. There is a reason the diet industry generates about sixty billion dollars per year!

The first we might call the admiring mirror; the second could be considered a shaming mirror.

Getting between people and their food is like standing in front of a speeding train; the act of being stopped in compulsive behavior is not exactly met with good cheer.

understanding that your pain won’t kill you. That you are more than your stories, more than your personality, and that no situation is unworkable, ever.

The main message of Overcoming Overeating is that diets are meant to keep women oppressed, and that bingeing is a completely reasonable response to deprivation, an attempt at self-care and self-liberation.

Letting the pressure build between who one is taught to be and who one really is.