You are lovable, you are loving; your choices about food will reflect that, if you give yourself a chance.

My closet was full, yet I was always focused on the sweater I didn't have, or on the next pair of boots. I wasn't allowing myself to take in what I had. I could never experience what "enough" was.

Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.

If LOVE could talk to you about your relationship with food, what would it say?

Bingeing is such an emotionally frenetic activity that no other concerns can exist in the same space. It is a hell that people who are food-sensitive are familiar with; and, because it is known, it is therefore not so terrifying as some of the problems that are outside our control. Problems like divorce, illness, death.

I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to not feel ashamed. I felt so much shame about my own experiences.

Be fully present for five minutes every day.