This morning I have been on my Facebook page and the subject came up about treating ourselves when we’ve been good and that usually that treat is to feel normal because we have removed bad things from our diet. Di and I were commenting on a post where someone was asking whether there is a yeast free alcohol available and her comments are inspirational and very honest. “… for the ones who have just separated themselves from eating like everyone else around them (when on realisation it is them who suffer from ailments), it is difficult sometimes to just go … Continue reading The New ‘Normal’

I’ve often heard the analogy that healing is “like peeling away layers of an onion”. If only … I have a lot of ‘if only’ running through my mind at the moment and there’s one thing I know for sure – I can’t go back and change them … so how do I accept the not-so-loving choices I’ve made in my life? The unfoldment of the amazing work-in-progress that I am is allowing me the opportunity to choose another way of treating myself – I have been and can be very hard on myself for choices that have not been … Continue reading The Onion

I’ve recently watched the movie, The Hunger Games – where, in one world, excess exists and the other depravation – and there is no middle ground. Are we playing a game with food at every turn? If so, does the body always lose when we are extreme with food? When was the last time you actually felt hungry?  Eating is obviously essential to our survival, but nowadays we don’t have to get it with a bow and arrow. Though sometimes the market on a Saturday morning feels like a battle field! I’m sat here now on a Sunday morning having … Continue reading The Hunger Games