The story of food is largely the story of your awakening. The supply of food from mothers blood ceases when the umbilical cord is tied. You felt the pain of hunger and you were introduced to the first pain relieving agents food.

Every newborn child is a born scientist continually making discoveries. Nursing mothers also discover more about themselves as they care for their wonderful little bundle of trouble and joy. Your power to suck and swallow made you at one with mother. Her heartbeat was music to you. Psycho-sexual pleasure flowed, as a mothers reward for guiding you from hunger pain, and dependence, to oneness and a feeling of contentment and satisfaction and sleep.

Very soon you discover play play with mother that was all clean and wonderful until you discovered potato, gravy, peas and spoons that were a mystery until the first one found a hungry mouth. A new connection was made. New connections were being made in your brain as it developed new cells at the rate of 250,000 per minute. Your adult brain would be four times larger.

Food and mothers caring guidance balanced your pain and pleasure. You play and sleep in peace and contentment. With growing maturity you demanded more of your own space. Parents and family discovered that a crying child could not cry holler or swaller swallow food at the same time. Food was pushed onto you as a pacifier. Someone wanted to control you and your behaviour.

Your emotions were quickly connected with food and control issues and your willingness to eat, or your defiance not to eat. As a born scientist, wanting to enquire about taste and feeling and power, you began to do as adults and others were doing. You discovered substances such as caffeine, beverage alcohol, nicotine and perhaps prescription drugs or illegal substances.

Your emotional desire for independence, new relationships, significance and meaning for your life was often attached to food. Mothers care was now a restricting power. Food and emotions and you may be an unmanageable mix.

How can you balance pain and pleasure, dis-satisfaction and contentment, frustration and fulfillment, emptiness and serenity? Only by caring for myself.

God grant that I accept with serenity those foods that are good and wholesome, eat them with relish and have courage to seek fellowship and exercise, while accepting the wisdom that knows when enough is enough.

Free from Food-Addiction