Thurs.Food For Thought

December 1st, In the past, we translated emotional distress into physical hunger. Physical hunger was something we could deal with when emotional pain was too much for us. The reason our hunger was not satisfied by any amount of food was that the hunger was really distressed emotion. If as children we were unable to recognize and express our distress, we buried it. As adults, we may stil have ignored painful feelings and tried to make them go away with quantities of food and drink. Eventually, we bacame so dishonest with ourselves that we did not know what it was we really felt. We may have pretended for so long that everything was fine that we believed it. The telltale sign that all was not fine was our compulsive overeating behavior. When we abstain, we sometimes fear that we will be overwhelmed with the emotional pain that is no longher buried with food. By turning this distress over to our Higher Power, we are able to survive it and learn from it. I give You the pain which I cannot handle. Reading by Hazelden Meditation Series