Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

My favorite quote from the Harry Potter series is spoken by Dumbledore shortly after Harry has been struck down by Voldemort. Harry is experiencing the afterlife and he asks his former headmaster if any of this is real or if it is all just in his head. Here is Dumbledore’s brilliant reply: “Of course it […]

2c the shiny me

Choking between layers of fat is the best version of me.

Step 2b…or not 2b

What I am trying to focus on for my recovery is the fact that I am not the center of the universe. I am not alone.

Step 2…insane in the membrane

“Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” I will divide the next posts into two sections: Sanity and Higher Power. Sanity: noun; the ability to think and behave in a normal and rational manner; sound mental health. When I think of sanity or the lack thereof, I often […]

Step 1

Anyone on the street looking at me would instantly recognize me as having food issues.

My name is…

I decide that my diet is not the issue. The core issue is that no matter what I eat (healthy or otherwise), I eat too much.

Now What?

So I am overweight, now what? Weight for me has been two vastly different stories. For the first half of my life, it was no issue at all. I ate what I wanted with little or no thought given to my daily intake. My sophomore year in college, I went away to school in California. […]

New Direction

I have two blogs: One devoted to my experience as a VACTERL parent and one devoted to life in general. It is this blog, the one that is devoted to life in general, that I wish to take in a new direction. But first, a word on why I write. I don’t consider myself a […]