Food Addiction Recovery – #17
Even with a food addiction life is still pretty good though it is unfair. The flip side of the last approach to recovery —not to wallow in life’s unfairness—is to revel in all the good things you do have in life and not get bogged down in the downsides of being a food addict. For example if you are in the USA or one of the English speaking western nations you are enormously privileged to say the least compared to most folks alive today. You don’t live in Haiti, Eretria, or the Solomon Islands living below their poverty lines or even in what they might consider middle class in those countries that would not look so good to a USA middle class person. Being a food addict in the USA might look like a step up to most of those folks. It seems for many folks with food addiction it is easy to get bogged down in what we lack, what we want (not need, but what we want), what we’ll never have and never think about how well we actually have it. I doubt that anyone reading these words now is living in the poverty of say Bangladesh for example. So a relatively few of us in this world have so much compared to most. Even in the USA we have homeless, chronically ill living in poverty and there is 12% of the population below the US government’s poverty line.
Food Addiction – Can It Be A Blessing?
What do you have that is a blessing? You may have an amazing marriage, a good job, a cat you adore, and great friends—there is something in your life you can be grateful for. Think about it. No matter how bleak life seems, there is always an upside. You may hate being a food addict, for example, but millions maybe even a billion or more people in the world don’t have the luxury of too much food. No matter where you are in the world someone else is virtually always worse off than you are.
It may sound Pollyanna-ish, but looking on the bright side puts you in a positive mindset that makes change easier. When you look and see how good your life really is, it’s much easier to get motivated to make it even better. Now, if you think higher power has a sense of humor then you might like to view this video but if not you could be offended.
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