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Embracing My Truth
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Be You
By Molly Carmel Tune into your truth. Live it. Breathe it. Beam it.
~Emma Kate My relationship with food was complicated from the beginning. Climb my family tree, and you'll find branches loaded with eating issues and obesity, which I inherited upon my arrival at nine pounds, twelve ounces. When my father died traumatically before I turned three, food — specifically sugar — was the comfort that soothed my understanding of this loss. Sugar was my go-to when I was sad, happy, or overwhelmed. It fit every occasion. It made me feel included, secure, okay. Sugar was my best friend, but the dependency and health consequences, even as early as age five, also made it my abuser. Understandably concerned, my mother sent me to a nutritionist at age seven. Thus began the saga of my other abusive relationship — with dieting. For over twenty years after that first intervention at seven, every single diet and weight-loss intervention known to man failed me, leaving me feeling hopeless and crippling my spirit. (Keep reading)  
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