If you have used food to medicate your feelings or if your extra weight helps you feel safe, then you are using food as a metaphor. A metaphor describes one thing as if it were something else. Saying that “food is love” is an example of how we use food as a metaphor. You may think that you love food when in fact food is actually ?lling an unmet need in your life – now or in the past – for love, safety, joy or other basic needs.

I used to believe that we must choose between science and reason on one hand, and spirituality on the other, in how we lead our lives.  Now I consider this a false choice.  We can recover the sense of sacredness, not just in science, but in perhaps every area of life. Larry Dossey, MD The quote above was written by Dr. Dossey who is a pioneer in alternative medicine.  When it comes to eating disorders, it has long been my belief, which I wrote about in “Healing Body, Mind and Spirit” that eating disorders and addictions are about spiritual pain.  When a person with an eating disorder goes through treatment, ...Read more »