Eating in the Light of the Moon

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Love, love, love this book. I have engaged in disordered eating for most of my

life (I'm 59 and just new to IE) and I have finally connected with an

explanation of why I may do this. The author Anita ston, PhD, found that in

her clinical work with women with eating issues she noticed that these women

have a particular trait in common - they are highly intuitive - able to pick up

on subtleties in conversations or tensions, to notice patterns in behaviour or

inconsistencies between what others said and what they did. Although intuition

can be a gift, when interpretations of what is perceived are distorted by self

doubt and low self esteem....well, this just means trouble and results in a

plethora of uncomfortable self destructive feelings. And many of us know what

to do when we feel those....eat, eat, eat! Of course the author goes on to

address this problem. And man oh man is it ever a problem for me. I've always

felt that I was very intuitive - short of psychic - but able to know what's been

going on before being told and I can now see what a problem this has been for

me. I have difficulty with relationships of any kind and therefore get very

hurt and lonely and I eat, eat, eat.

The author uses myths and stories to make her points which I'm not crazy about

but the text between the " stories " is bang on for me.

Hope somebody else can benefit from this way of looking at things, as I have.

Bonnie