Tonight I attended a meeting of Overeater's Anonymous. I was terrified - I cried when I walked in and couldn't stop shaking. I couldn't have been made to feel more welcome - I was hugged and told it was ok.
I sat in the meeting and listened to other people share my story. An amazing experience to know that there are other people who are the same as me.
I thought I would be met with a room full of excessively over weight people but to be honest there were all shapes and sizes. Some have been doing the programme for many many years - some only 1 year - some like me were newcomers. Everyone was made to feel welcome and at one point something was read out and the only words I can remember were "Welcome Home". That really touched me because I feel I have found a new home.
Let us love you until you can learn to love yourself was something else said to me.
Take one day at a time.
You will discover your own triggers and you will discover what you can abstain from.
Right now my brain is buzzing with so much information that I can't form a straight thought. My husband wanted to talk when I came home and I had to say I can't talk now I need to think on it for a while.
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