by Chris | Jun 28, 2023 | Family, Loved One of an Addict, Pornography & Sexual Addiction, Sex/Pornography
When I had been dating my husband for about three months, I told him I was getting concerned about our relationship. I was feeling like he wasn’t listening to me as much as I was listening to him, and I was wondering if we could address this so we could work things...
by Chris | Jun 21, 2023 | Addiction, Alcohol & Drug Addiction, Getting Sober
What does the term “unmanageable” even mean? I asked Google Bard AI for a definition, and here is what it returned: “Unmanageable means difficult or impossible to control or manage. It can be used to describe a person, an animal, a situation, or an object.” Synonyms...
by Chris | Jun 14, 2023 | Compulsive Eating Behaviors
I’ve lost count of how many fellow food addicts have heard me talk about my difficult childhood as it relates to my disordered eating only to have them respond, “But I don’t have trauma like you have trauma.” Then they tell me how they were never abused in any...
by Chris | Jun 7, 2023 | Compulsive Eating Behaviors
In 2018, my family and I were blessed to take a three-week, self-led European pilgrimage. We started in England, where we visited both the Tyburn Convent, built to honor the Catholic martyrs hung on London’s infamous Tyburn Tree, and then the Shrine of Our Lady of...
by Chris | May 3, 2023 | Adult Children of an Alcoholic, Compulsive Eating Behaviors, Family
I haven’t spoken to my mother in over two decades, but every once in a while, when I’m walking through a rainy parking lot in a pair of jeans, I’ll still hear her voice speak from my memory. I hear her tell me that my legs look like stuffed sausages, just like she did...
