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Flailing Desperation to True Desperation

I found FA just before my 30th birthday. My top weight was in the high 180s, which I thought I […]

Refuge From Rage

I was so hurt and angry that I couldn’t see straight, and on top of reeling with emotion, I also […]

A New Happiness

I walked in the doors of fa at 295 lbs., my physical recovery was only the beginning. At the request […]

Free Spirit Finds Freedom

When I came to this program over 12 years ago, I was a “free spirit.” I was (and still am) […]

Feeling the Pinch

After 14 years of binging and purging almost every day, and despite the overwhelming shame and guilt I felt about […]

Betting on Recovery

This morning I yelled at my two older kids. They refused to get out of bed, spoke rudely to me […]

Yours (Truly)

I ate addictively because I am a food addict. I believed it to my core. Yet, knowing this truth, why […]

Even in Grief, Don’t Eat, No Matter What

My mother died a few days before her ninety-second birthday, when I was less than six months in FA. Even […]

Freedom from Food

Passover is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the time when the Jewish people were liberated some 3,300 years ago from […]

The Greatest Gift

Twelve years ago, I had no idea how to eat without bingeing and purging; I didn’t trust food or myself. […]

Waking Up Happy

I’ve seen people come into FA because they under-eat, purge their food, obsess about their weight and keep it down […]

Darkest Before the Dawn

Have I always been a food addict? I do not know. I do know that as a scrawny little kid, […]

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