Sofia Bothwell

When the winds of change blow, do you follow them? What are the winds of change? How do they manifest in your life? Beyond being a well known saying The Winds of Change are a real concept in life. Whether we like it or not we are here, living a life of... what? Quiet desperation as the poet says? Or of fulfilling one's own heart-felt desires?  We all know that we each want to be fulfilling our own heart-felt desires but were they not squashed in childhood or adolescence?  Over many years of working with compulsive eaters and observing people I was surprised to find out how many did not know what they wanted in life. Or if they did have an inkling it was something they felt they could not achieve. Others were so buried in the day to day living, of marriage and kids, addicted to the acquiring of more and more mainstream wealth that they were on a treadmill. A treadmill running away from themselves without even being aware that that was exactly what they were doing.  Think...

 Can losing a few pounds be called a spiritual journey? The seemingly shallow desire to be slim, can it really have deep meaning? The answer to these two questions is - Yes. Susie Orbach's book Fat Is A Feminist Issue was maybe the first book to hint at the deeper issues involved in losing a few pounds of body weight. Whether it was twenty pounds or five pounds a woman wanted to lose, there was an emotional reason that excess weight was there, and there was emotional pain that the fat was hiding.  Discovering and healing the emotional wounds linked to dysfunctional eating patterns became the work at hand if one wanted to be slim. And it is still true today, with the epidemic of worldwide obesity the answers given to overweight people need to looked at closely. To only focus on what goes into your mouth is not going to heal an eating disorder. For an eating disorder is a problem in itself and also the symptom of a deeper problem. Discovering and healing that deeper problem is k...