Sofia Bothwell

Switching to Vegan - The animal friendly way to eat. It really is easy and do-able to make the change to vegan when you know a few principles that make any lifestyle change easier and lasting. They are principles that can be used to give up anything - in this case meat and dairy. They are principles that I have used over the past thirty years from when I first heard of them and applied them to giving up 'eating when full' . Then applied them in giving up smoking and drinking. I was already vegetarian but used them years later to evolve into a Vegan. Okay lets start: Most folk are now all too aware of the cruelty of the meat and dairy industry and simply do not want to be part of that. Also there are many health benefits to the Vegan lifestyle. but how to make the changeover do-able and permanent? Well read on: Be easy about it - allow yourself to not be 100% Vegan but aim towards it. Great if you can do it, great if you can't, it is all part of learning how to make th...

What are you addicted to? Most people are addicted to something without really knowing what addiction is or how to heal it. Addiction is anything we do to distance us from our feelings and emotional issues. You may binge on chocolate cake after your husband was a bit sharp with you, and not give yourself the time to really ponder the issue at hand. If you instead, catch yourself at the craving stage (maybe just after he has snapped at you) and immediately ask yourself - What feeling is this? And just take a moment to notice what emotions you are feeling, maybe a hint of anger at his response, or a stab of sadness at his words and tone of voice, coupled with a feeling of helplessness as to what to do about it. This leads you deeper into your emotional life, and into the waters of the unknown that often trigger the binge on food / the eating when full that will numb you to the discomfort of these emotions and this issue with your husband. The solution is to follow up with the question...

The following is the first few pages of a book I am writing called Addiction De-Mystified  - Enjoy!! The Healing of Binge Eating, Alcohol and Drug Addiction How I evolved into my own authentic life, addicted to nothing… This is the story of my own journey through several addictions. It starts when I was a teenager. A teenager who was craving. Craving food when full. A teenager who was obsessing, obsessing about size, shape and eating habits. During that journey of five years I learned about addiction, I learned about it through experience. Binge eating was my main addiction. I had no control nor ability to stop when physically full when I was on a binge. The rest of the time I was simply in a love/hate relationship with food, and constantly desiring my body to be slimmer. I can see now it was in a subconscious attempt to be accepted, to be loved, to be heard, to be appreciated. Of course all that was not going to happen just as the result of my being slimmer. The ...