My best friend and I both struggle with binge eating and we've become each other's 'food confessors' — calling each other after episodes, sharing shame, promising to do better tomorrow. But I'm realizing our constant focus on our food failures might be keeping us both stuck in the cycle instead of actually helping us heal.
More people experience this than they realize.
Mutual confession and commiseration has become a substitute for actual recovery work.
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If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.