Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Since Restrictors are constantly trying to contain the wild energy stomping to be released—the full moon, after all, is always only days way—they can never truly relax. Since they are trying to stave off the inevitable, they have to work very hard, and since they have to work so hard, they have convinced themselves that suffering is noble. And if i

Food—as matter turned to spirit—is the direct connection between the physical and the spiritual, between what we put in our mouths and what we feel in our hearts.

This body loved being alive. Loved moving with some measure of ease. Loved being able to see, hear, touch, smell, taste—and food was a big part of how I could do that. The way I ate was another way to soar.

If we are interested in finding out what we actually believe—not what we think, not what we say, but what our souls are convinced is the bottom-line truth about life and afterlife—we need go no further than the food on our plates.

“When you stop and let yourself feel what is being offered to you, it is never, ever what you thought it would be.

When you no longer believe that eating will save your life when you feel exhausted or overwhelmed or lonely, you will stop. When you believe in yourself more than you believe in food, you will stop using food as if it were your only chance at not falling apart. When the shape of your body no longer matches the shape of your beliefs, the weight disa

Compulsive eating is an attempt to avoid the absence (of love, comfort, knowing what to do) when we find ourselves in the desert of a particular moment, feeling, situation. In the process of resisting the emptiness, in the act of turning away from our feelings, of trying and trying again to lose the same twenty, fifty, eighty pounds, we ignore what

Losing weight on any program in which you tell yourself that left to your real impulses you would devour the universe is like building a sky-scraper on sand: without a foundation, the new structure collapses.

“Food is good and comfort is good. Except that when you are not hungry and you want comfort, food is only a temporary palliative; why not address the discomfort directly?”

Overeating does not lead to rapture. It leads to burping and farting and being so sick that you can’t think of anything but how full you are. That’s not love; that’s suffering.