The False Coin by Sofia Bothwell

The False Coin

It started on a plane flight high above the majestic Alps, Pierre and Constance, like minds and souls meeting after lifetimes apart to continue the mystery of life, but a magnificent re-enactment of a seventeenth century French Ball challenges their relationship to the core, taking Pierre to the unseen mysteries of the Peruvian rainforest and Constance home to London...

Sofia Bothwell was born and educated in Ireland, moving to London at the age of twenty. Author of True Slimness, Guidelines for Healing Your Eating Habit and Simply Full, she trained as a Rebirther in Italy and started classes on Healing the Eating Habit in Violet Hill Studios, a stones throw from the famous Abby Road Studios. She currently conducts sessions via Skype and resides in her beloved Wales

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Habit vs Addiction

A habit is something that you have simply gotten used to. A habit is relatively easy to change or give up. An addiction however, is something that we have to do, it is something that we crave. It is something that is suppressing how we feel. So with these key words - 'have to do', crave, and suppressing, we have insights into what dynamic is at play. With this added knowledge we are more empowered to be able to give up any addiction that may afflict us at any time.
What makes it possible, and even sometimes, easy, to give up, is the pinpointing and resolving of the emotional stuff that indulging in the addiction suppresses.
There is a mainstream belief that if you are addicted to something that that is the end of the story, done and dusted so to speak, no more room for healing implied. This could not be further from the truth of the matter. It is the beginning of the story to acknowledge you are an addict. An addict to food when full, an addict to heroin, an addict to cigarettes, an addict to alcohol, an addict to acquiring money at a huge cost to employees, business partners, family and relatives. The acquiring of money at any cost - through cheating or stealing, legally or illegally from others - is a deplorable addiction, but rife in our world of inequality and injustice and the oppression of others. But there is a way out of any and all oppression and suppression.

So the truth is that when you are addicted to something you are running away from your painful emotions. So what are those emotions - you discover them through asking yourself regularly - What feeling is this? Specifically if we ask ourselves that question when we crave anything, or find that compulsive, hard, quality emerging, it brings us the clarity of knowing what we are dealing with emotionally. Then asking - Given the fact I feel this way, what would I like to do now? We are discovering the way out of addiction, oppression and suppression when we ask ourselves that question. Following up on the healthy, life-enhancing answer to that question leads you into the addiction-free lifestyle.

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Playing Card Readings

Hello again, I love connecting with people. I love communication. Communication with self and others is the cornerstone of my work in so many, many ways.

Being ignored causes so many difficulties and traumas that communication is the only answer. Being ignored as a child or adult causes wounding that, at some point, either must be addressed and healed, or suppressed through addiction.

Relearning how to communicate is what the world needs in order to grow. In other words - Our growth was stunted through lack of communication, or too aggressive communication, or inappropriate communication.

To heal we have to open up to, learn and allow healthy communication.

One of the ways I communicate with people is through Playing Card Readings. Not everyone is ready or interested in tackling the drinking, smoking or overeating that is going on in their lives but a little light distraction in the form of an inspirational, fun Playing Card Reading is something that draws their interest and they maybe even intuitively know it will be a stepping stone to improvement. And that it certainly is! For the Playing Cards will highlight the areas that are 'playing out' in their lives. The Cards literally show you the 'hand you have been dealt in life' - now isn't that interesting? Suddenly folk are interested, want to know, are surprised that the meaning of the Cards they have selected actually do pertain to events and people in their lives and they are intrigued.
Gently showing ways forward, giving solid advice and showing them that what is actually going on in their lives can be handled, the ways forward are clear, and that there is, not only light at the end of the tunnel, but very often a Sparkling New Life.

Fascinated by Playing Card Readings ever since I realised there was such a thing, I have been doing them at Health and Holistic Fairs Locally and using them for myself for years - I love them. Their aura is different to any other deck and steeped in history - they are the original oracle in my opinion and give plenty of leeway for the magic of your own life, love and happiness to emerge.

Playing Card Readings £35 per 40min session via Skype or FB Video Call Payment via Pay Pal

Email:  Sofia2227@gmail.com

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Text: 07530 531 655

London and Destiny

How much of life is destiny? This is a question that most of us ask ourselves at some point in time. How much can we mould a shape our lives?
Many women involved in this widespread problem of compulsive eating even ask themselves - How can I mould and shape my body? I have worked with, and actually been, a perfectly 'slim' woman and wanted to be 'slimmer' - This of course is total and utter obsession, to not realise and appreciate your own natural slimness. The answer is what I cover in my One to One Facebook Video Call Sessions £35 / $50  (1 hr Session)
This complex problem of obesity and obsession with size and shape is unravelled and explained from the standpoint of a recovered compulsive eater.
I recovered from compulsive eating at the tender age of 19. I had already suffered from 5 years of compulsive eating and 2 years of bulimia - I knew diets did not work because that is where dieting had got me.
The answer revealed itself to me when I embarked on studying alternative methods of healing, thinking and being via a local secondhand bookstore that had just opened in our local town in rural Ireland in 1984. I started to follow that still small voice within instead of binge-eating, and it worked. I no longer dieted and simply ate when hungry and stopped when full. I became aware of the painful  dynamics that were rife in my own family and culture - the ignoring, the blatant and hidden, sexism, blaming and shaming, the put-downs, criticism and controlling.
One of the first whisperings that came to me from my 'Still Small Voice Within' was - Leave Home - And I did. My boyfriend at the time was Catholic and I was raised Protestant and we decided to live together - an incredibly radical act in 1980's Rural Ireland where Protestants and Catholics were supposed to kill each other not make love to each other. But as John Lennon says - Make Love Not War.
Six months later we left our stifling backgrounds and country's unspoken dictates, for the wider world of - London.
London became my home. I fell in love with London and that love affair continues even though that rebellious young man that was part of that very new and exciting and sometimes tough time of my life, is now passed away.
So yes, I believe that he, and London, and this work I do was and is my Destiny.
My work and my passion to help others heal their eating disorders holistically, just as I have, continues. For info on One to one Skype or FB Video Call Sessions text 07530 531 655

What Are Your Issues?

Many things effect us in this world today. What are your issues? This, you have got to know for without knowing what you are dealing with emotionally and on a practical level, you are in the dark so to speak. And to eat when full, drink or smoke, when even an inkling of such matters surface into your awareness, is to only shut and bolt the door that keeps you imprisoned in that darkness.

But the darkness is familiar and at least warm and cosy you may exclaim. But know, cosy and familiar as it may or may not be, it is darkness none the less. No bright morning dawn for you, no precious awakening and accustomising of your very Self to your very Soul and the 'Soul of the World' as Paulo Coelho would call it.

You deny yourself  the relief that comes from the integrating of the issues at hand. No blessed lesson learned from facing up to, and seeing into, and growing and learning from the issue at hand - no just darkness - the darkness of addiction is a choice remember and most addicts after they reach their own personal 'rock bottom' turn and face, no not the sun, but their own personal issues. For they know that no matter how painful the issues may be, they are not as painful as the healing of them.

So what heals them? You start with the ability to answer the question - What are your issues?

I do not have a PhD in Psychology - What I do have is the fact that I am a recovered compulsive eater, a recovered bulimic and I do not drink or smoke or do drugs either prescription or otherwise. In other words - I am a sober, slim healthy woman who lives and adventure of a life following her own still small voice within instead of the voice of 'craving'.

For more info on Skype or Facebook Call consultations on how to heal your eating habit or quit any habit you wish to quit - Email sofia2227@gmail.com or PM me on Face book.

A small 37 page book. That is what 'Weight Loss for Blokes' is. Filled with the power to help you understand why you have the craving to eat when full and how to dissolve that craving into the ability to stop when full and be your slim-bloke self. It is a simple and down to earth read with all the info you need to reduce the amount of excess weight you are carrying. Available from me Sofia Bothwell at £5 incl p&p Facebook: Sofia Bothwell Email: sofia2227@gmail.com for your copy - It will change your life.

Forgiveness Prayers

I have recently come across the Forgiveness Prayers of Howard Wills and they have been like a missing piece of the puzzle of life to me.
I have known about, and intermittently practised, forgiveness affirmations since I first learned about them many years ago.
They are a powerful healing tool.
And over the years I have noticed that self acceptance and forgiveness are the things that often need a lot of explanation when teaching them as concepts and tools that actually aid recovery from addiction and/or compulsive eating.

Firstly, Forgiveness does NOT condone the event or situation that you are forgiving - it actually honours and claims an injustice has been done.

Secondly, forgiveness clears you from any negative effects that wrong doing is having on your present day life, health, relationships, well-being or finances.

I love Howard Wills explanation that forgiveness is like taking a shower and it cleanses you of any negativity - It cleans you!!

I have been practising his forgiveness prayers (which are free to download from his site www.howardwills.com) every day for about three weeks now and I can only say they help - they help a lot, in subtle and overt ways - they work.

So, if you feel drawn to - check out his You Tube videos under the channel SusanAllen and see for yourself if this Healing Tool of Forgiveness is something for you.

Bringing into your life, blessings and peace,

Sofia Bothwell Author and Weight Loss Consultant

Life Pieces

I fell like I am continuing to put the pieces in place. My heart is warmed when I look at the front cover of my new book Sacred Pilgrimage which I actually wrote in 2011 and published now via the on-line publishing company LULU



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Integrating Feelings - what it means

When we allow our discomfort, it can be allowed to flow into comfort. Transmute, if you like, or integrate. To integrate a feeling all we have to do is feel that feeling, not suppress it, not even necessarily express it, but just feel, experience, allow that feeling room in your life, room in your experience to simply be, and thus as you are aware of it you can also be aware of it transmuting, flowing, changing into another feeling. Feelings are like water they flow.
Suppressing a feeling through eating when full is an inappropriate and damaging-to-ourselves activity. It causes us to gain weight and suffer health issues related to excess weight.
From my years of compulsive eating and my experience of recovering from compulsive eating I draw these conclusions on how to lose excess weight for good.

• Loving and taking care of yourself as regards emotions and feelings has not been taught appropriately or accurately via our families or the diet industry.
• Often fat is a layer of 'protection' against life and its 'knocks' - so in endeavoring to lose excess weight, we, on a subconscious level, don't want to 'lose' our layer of protection. so we have a subconscious sabotage going on that needs to be addressed before weight loss can be successful and permanent.
• Uncovering and addressing the previously hidden fears around being slim and the slim lifestyle we feel we would have slim, is necessary.
• Emotional work is key in weight loss - permanent weight loss. If you are not prepared to feel the feelings that eating when full helps you suppress, you will be overweight forever.
• It is not as hard as you think, but your ego will fight you every step of the way, because weight loss this way, is the death of the ego. 
• The death of the ego simply means the birth of your creativity, your uniqueness, and a life deeply rooted in unconditional love, like a phoenix rising from the ashes of the death of the ego you emerge as a permanently-slim-you: a you who no longer suppresses his/ her emotional stuff by eating when already physically full of food.

Harmony Holistics

I spent a wonderful day yesterday teaching my Healing the Eating Habit workshop at Harmony Holistics, a beautiful shop plus therapy rooms in Ammanford Wales.
We covered the main concepts of how to lose weight permanently and naturally through eating when hungry and stopping when full. How to resolve those emotional issues that can cause eating when full and how to raise self acceptance.
I will be doing a other Healing the Eating Habit Day Workshop there on the 10th of January 2015. So if you fancy coming along to the serene and peaceful Welsh country town of Ammanford for an interesting and worthwhile, life-changing experience there are still a few places left.
To book simply contact 07530 531 655 or look up Harmony Holistics on facebook and message Helen. A £10 deposit will secure your place and the remaining £20 can be paid on the day.

Blessings

Sofia

Poetry

Here is a piece of poetry that came to me as I cycled home today.

Stealing time from fear.

Stealing time from stress.

and giving it to Grace,

giving it to peace.

 I have always loved cycling and use it as my mode of transport in busy Cardiff city. I have recently taken a small chance on doing a workshop on the topic I love  - Healing the Eating Habit - I risked losing money but I took the risk and once I made the decision to go ahead and do the workshop, I felt at ease because I knew I was being true to my heart. And that is all i have ever been doing in this life - being true to my heart. 

And then I realized that I am totally supported in this like I have always been; even though I don't always feel it.

 Being true to yourself becomes a way of life when you give up eating when full or any addiction for that matter.

Are you ready to make following your heart your way of life?

I thought of a time when I lived in London and had some financial challenges. I remember staying in my boyfriends flat in West Hampstead and sitting in the small living room looking out into the garden and feeling totally content, allowing, what I call today - Grace, into my being. Feeling at peace even though challenges were present. 

And that is when the thought that we steal time from stress, worry and fear and give it to grace - isn't that what the ancient and modern Mystics do? Spend time in Grace instead of worry, stress or fear.

Dysfunctional Families

Coming from a dysfunctional family seems to be the norm, and I often realize that I got things to say to my family, but what I really want is love.
After I left my family home, and when I was in my early twenties as a dysfunctional adult of dysfunctional adults, breathwork (Rebirthing) played a big part in my own personal healing journey. I wanted to learn how to make the pain go away.
I started on the adventure of life to discover how to create a supportive and validating family life. I had not felt supported or validated in my family, so a childhood of pain was my challenge to deal with. I dealt with it by becoming a compulsive eater at the age of 13, that developed into bulimia by the time I was 17. I healed at 18. More, deeper issues emerged and I was co-dependent by 22.
Breathwork saved my life when I was 26 and my further healing continued in earnest then with positive thinking, and much study into self healing.
Looking back, chunk of healing happened after chunk of healing as I continued to read and follow my heart. I rarely visited my family after I left at 19 and just focused on healing the wounds inflicted by those people who did not see me, hear me, or make me feel safe.
 It was the best they could do and the power to heal from all of that was mine, and thankfully I was able to do so to the extent that I no longer eat when full, or smoke, or drink to deal with the pain of a dysfunctional upbringing - all of that I gave up twenty years ago.
An addiction free life is not necessarily an easy life, it is just we learn to cope with life in different ways. We no longer suppress our feelings and creativity by eating when full, drinking, smoking or doing drugs, rather we feel those feelings and seek to live the life we would like to live, by incorporating into it what we think we might like to do. We involve ourselves in our interests and stay clear of the original transgressors; or if we are around them, we can handle it in ways that don't harm us. We cut the visit short or we learn how to protect ourselves from their subtle or overt abusive ways. It is a difficult road to walk to hide from abuse, it is much easier to own up to the fact it happened and that we can stay away and be with people who truly like us. It starts with ourselves and our own self-care and self-appreciation.

The Price Tag on Freedom

It has been said that the price tag on freedom is responsibility. And in doing yourself the great favor of freeing yourself from the habit of compulsive eating, you are developing the ability to respond to life, and food, and feelings, in different ways. Ways that allow you to stop when full. Ways that allow you to be who you are. Ways that allow you to ask yourself - How do I feel about that? What is my opinion on this?

This is your ability to interact with life rather that stuffing your feelings down with food when full and stuffing yourself into a stereotypical image of womanhood.

I personally have discovered that I grew up in a family that had very limited  ideas about what a woman could, or could not do. Rather Victorian and very patriarchal. Stifling to say the least. Maybe it was no coincidence that I moved to a different country only six short months after overcoming my eating disorder. My stuffing my feelings down with food when full was all to do with living in a family that was trying to shove me into a shoe box, and call it living.

In my ability to cease eating when full, and my getting into the habit of asking myself - What feeling is this I am trying to suppress? every time I felt like eating when full, enabled me to discover what I wanted in life.

I am very blessed to have been able to leave that stifling upbringing to emerge into a life that allowed me to live in London, study what I loved, work and follow my interests.

Seek your own ability to respond to your life in a way that allows you to truly live. No longer eat when full and allow yourself to feel the feelings that eating when full suppressed. Seek to resolve those feelings. Seek the way to feel and heal. Ask yourself - Given the fact I feel this way what would I like to do now? And let it guide you to responding to people a little differently. Staying away from some, spending more time with others. It is your adventure now. It is your pilgrimage. It is your life.
Allow it to flourish.

Let your life get bigger as you get smaller.

Blessings, until next time

Sofia

 

Have Your Cake and Eat It

To have your cake and eat it depicts the best case scenario. So how does that relate to compulsive eating and carrying those extra pounds?
Well, I hear again and again from folk - 'I just love food and that is why I carry extra weight'.
I am here to tell you that you can still love food and be slim. Remember - What gets you slim, keeps you slim. Eating when hungry and stopping when full gets you slim. And eating when hungry and stopping when full keeps you slim. I've been naturally slim for twenty years and it is all because of that simple act of eating when hungry and stopping when full.
So back to our cake, I love chocolate cake, but I only eat it when I am hungry.  And this is what I advise you to do also, with the help of the free 'Am I hungry?' download from my website
www.trueslimness.co.uk

Another important point I would like to make here is the fact that is the answer to this question - Do we really enjoy food when full? Sure when I was a compulsive eater I loved food when full because of the momentary good feeling it gave me, but the after effects of being bloated and an over full stomach and resulting weight gain and how horrified I would be when I stepped on the scales to see yet more weight went on, was not so much fun.
So food when full is not so enjoyable, but food eaten when genuinely physically hungry, is very enjoyable, especially when it is exactly what you want to eat. If you fancy a tuna sandwich when hungry, and eat a tuna sandwich when hungry, it really tastes sooo good. Now that is loving food. Food when hungry is a pleasure, and we don't have to give it up in order to be slim and healthy.
So in this way you can have your cake and eat it.

Until next time
Sofia

Work You Love

All of us at one time or another have experienced the 'quiet desperation' of not enough money, and maybe even the panic and fear around not having enough money. It is very similar to the fear of  'gaining even more weight'. If you suffer from both overweight and poverty, then this indeed is a very difficult cross to bear. How on earth can we heal, overcome, grow out and away from such demeaning circumstances that we often feel we have no control over?
No matter how hard we try, and what methods we try, the situation improves little, or not at all, or has even gotten worse.
I feel globally this is what we are facing - How to deal with the issue of excess weight on our body and the issue of lack of finances not being something to push us into work we loathe.
As I have mentioned in previous blogs, creativity otherwise known as work you love is an essential part of getting free from addiction and staying free from addiction, and it starts with being able to handle the fears of dealing with questions such as - How do I provide for myself and my family? How do I get into work I love? How can I make the work I hate be more tolerable? How can I navigate a way to leave this work I hate? How can I navigate a way into the work I love? How can I deal with, this one aspect of work, that I dislike so I can hang on in there for a few more months to save for that training course I want?
I love the Hay House Radio Show - 'Messages From Margaret' - in it, Margaret often gives her callers affirmations that start with the phrase - Why is it so easy for me....?
For Example: Why is it so easy for me to bring in a large financial income from work I love? Why is it so easy for me to deal with that difficult person? Why is it so easy for me to find and keep work that I love? Why is it so easy for me..... Fill in your own thoughts to do with what you are struggling with right now in your life. This is yet another tool that helps us cease turning to food when full.

True Slimness Workshops to start Wednesday Evenings Albert Road Methodist Church, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales 7pm - 8pm  Drop -in £3

True Slimness Lunchtime Workshops 1pm - 2pm on the first Monday of the month starting Monday September 1st, then Monday 6th October and Monday 3rd November at Friends Meeting House, 120 Heath Street, Hampstead, London

For Further info contact: 07530 531 655 / 02921 155 512

Until next time x Sofia

Good Moods and Bad Moods

Well all of us know how our moods effect our eating.
It is exasperating to find yourself in a bad mood and wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to shift yourself out of that bad mood at will.
Well, a good part of my work is pretty much about that - the ability to handle feelings. Feelings are energy. E-motion - energy in motion if you like. So because feelings are energy, and energy is a fluid thing, by it very nature it shouldn't be too hard to have it flow and leave, or be transmuted into something better, more pleasant. This has been referred to as a high vibration, or in more every-day terms feeling high. Using drugs as a means to 'feel high' however is a false thing and not what I recommend, but rather the natural highs of the resolving of an emotional issue, and the natural highs of doing what you love be it gardening, tending to your animals, or spending time with a friend you love - these are the sorts of  'highs' or 'good moods' you can seek as you give up eating when full.
So when the inklings of a bad mood or the thunderstorm of a bad mood erupts (the type of mood that would normally send you to the fridge when full) see if you can take a step back from it and act differently in relation to it. If you are stuck not knowing what to do about it then ask my much repeated question - Given the fact I feel this way, what would I like to do now?  What are your responses to that question? Sift through them. Are their any healthy answers? Are there any that you can start to act on? Such as open a bank account to save for a training course or holiday that you would like. Ignore answers such as - A glass of wine or a shopping spree on an already pretty full credit card, my rule is only spend cash, not plastic, until you are out of debt or until you really feel you know about good debt and bad debt. If you are angry, beat the mattress not your kids. If you are jealous of your sister in law, don't see her next Thursday. If you feel belittled by your sister-in-law, don't see her next Thursday. If you hate your job, really address that, brain storm, work less hours, look for another job that may be less pay but you'll feel happier, freer, or stay in there and avoid the person that is making it uncomfortable for you while you seek training in the field you've always dreamed of working.
And while doing all of that - stop when full, stop when full, stop when full. And don't beat yourself up if you ain't doing all of that already. It is okay.

Drop in to one of my lunchtime workshops 1 pm - 2 pm at the Friends Meeting House, Hampstead, 120 Heath Street, Hampstead, London, England on the first Monday of each month from September 2014 - To book in advance call 07530 531 655 or 029 2115 5512 they are (for now) at the brilliant price of £7.50

Becoming Slim

Becoming slim is about looking at the reasons why we have eaten when full in the past, and why we are still drawn to eat when full now, in the present. So take a moment and ask yourself  - What are my reasons for eating when full?

Here are some common reasons for eating when full:

I won't have time to eat later.

I paid for this meal so I am going to eat it.

There is still food on my plate, it would be a waste to bin it.

I can't stop eating.

Well I ate it so quickly that it is only now, after I've eaten, that I realise I'm positively stuffed.

What could you tell yourself to help you make these reasons, no longer good enough reasons, to eat when full?

My workshops, telephone consultations, skype sessions and one to one sessions and books cover this issue of how to let nothing be a good enough reason to eat when full.

It is fascinating and fun to lose weight this real and authentic way.

To book a session / workshop check out my face book page - True Slimness or email me: sofia@trueslimness.co.uk

Until next time

Regards

Sofia x

Creativity

I've noticed recently how much time, people I've been in conversation with, spend on complaining or talking about various problems in their lives as well as the terrible news stories, without really talking time to talk about the possible solutions.  And we all know that solutions do exist.

To me talking about and involving oneself in the solution, focusing on the solution, is creativity. Actually focusing on problems is also creativity - negative creativity. We stunt our own growth, our own wellness, our own peace of mind when we focus on the problems or issues in our lives for too long, without giving a moments thought to the many do-able solutions available. So getting on to the solution is a very positively creative act.

People are surprised and stop to think when I ask them - 'My goodness, so what can you do about this?' when they talk about an issue in their own lives. I remind them, as I often remind myself, that there is a thought, a conversation and an action that can be taken to help remedy the situation. It could be move house, talk to a friend, seek a job, don't give up, seek counselling or a Drs opinion, forgive, journal, write to the local press, put an ad in the paper, do on line dating - there are so, so, so many solutions to the many problems and issues that can cause you to dive head first into the biscuit tin with an already full stomach, or light a fag or take a drink.

It is a learned habit to focus on the solution and is an act of creativity. It is another piece of the puzzle that makes up a life free from suppression of emotion and life. A life where compulsive eating / over eating is dropped bit by bit until it is an old, discarded, dysfunctional coping mechanism. And excess weight becomes a thing of the past.

Wishing you addiction-free living

Until next time,

Sofia x

What is Suppression?

Suppression is one way of dealing with an unresolved emotional issue or feeling with which we may be uncomfortable. Suppression involves indulging in addiction (eating when full), which in turn serves the purpose of putting the feelings or emotional issue firmly under wraps, below our level of awareness, into the subconscious. This takes a lot of energy to put a feeling into suppression. Suppression looses its appeal when we find another way of dealing with those self-same feelings and emotional issues.

Addiction is a Symptom

We must remember that addiction is any activity that enables us to suppress our feelings. From eating when full to shooting heroin, from working too much to smoking, from binge drinking to staying with an abusive partner, addiction is rife within our world today.
This is a problem, but it is also the symptom of a deeper problem, and that is my work - highlighting and dealing with that deeper problem. That deeper problem is what fuels the addiction, it is that deeper problem that causes cravings and withdrawal. It is that deeper problem, that we, as recovering addicts, need to always be aware of and actively working on and resolving.
It is a different way of life I am speaking about here: The resolving of emotional issues rather than the suppressing of emotional issues. The being aware of how we feel rather than being blind to how we feel. This consciousness of who you are and what you want and love in life, and actively being involved in that rather that being actively involved in addiction; be it eating when full or any of the many addictions available today you can give it up and give it up for good, but two things are essential - resolving emotional stuff and being creative ie do what you love.

Until next time, have an addiction free day,

Sofia x