Oprah, End Your Food Addiction

Oprah, you have admitted to having a food addiction.  "My drug of choice is food.  I use food for the same reasons an addict uses drugs: to comfort, to soothe, to ease stress," you say, in the January 2009 edition of O magazine.  Are you ready to end your food addiction?  Let's take step three in the process of Intuitive Self-Care!  Express your Self -- yes, with a capital S!  Expressing your Self means feeling with your soul, honoring your emotions free of any judgment, so they can be released and you can move forward.  You have probably used food to stuff down your feelings, especially those uncomfortable ones like anger, guilt, depression.  The problem is, food doesn't make the feelings go away.  It's just a temporary way to cope.  But the feelings will resurface, and what do you do when that happens?  You eat more, right?  Oprah, are you ready to end your food addiction?  The key is to feel your feelings!  Your emotions have a message for you!  It's a deeper hunger, a hunger from your soul, which binge eating can never satisfy.  Once you give yourself permission to feel, then what you need -- your soul's hunger -- will also be revealed.  

To end your food addiction, ask:  What are my feelings, and what is my soul's hunger?