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to feed our bodies. Painful knees, allergy troubles, and skin problems faded or disappeared. When we dealt with ourselves honestly, our inner peace soared and our naturally fit bodies emerged.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

     
     
     
     
    Lying to Yourself
    It doesn’t matter what your addiction is. It always involves lying to yourself.
     
    For an alcoholic, the topic for debate is how there can be no harm in ‘just one drink’. For a workaholic, it’s ‘just one hour’. For a smoker, it’s ‘just one cigarette’.
     
    While addictions are difficult to kick, they have one feature that makes it easier. Addictions happen within a person. It is what a person is doing to himself or herself. Period.
     
    Yes, addiction is typically a family disease and there are many aspects to solving it. But, the addiction itself belongs to one person alone. As long as the person maintains the line, “I’m okay”, nothing will change. And as long as that person is content with tenaciously lying to themselves, the addiction will continue.
     
    Anytime you take a stand against the truth, you can expect an argument.
     
    Excuse Me, Who am I Talking To?
    When we are dealing with an addict, confusion is the modus operandi.
     
    If I’m an addict, and you’re talking to me, you see one person. But you’re dealing with two or more competing world views! Part of me wants to maintain the status quo, wants you to see me as a person who has my act together. Another part wants to come clean and change!
     
    You’re going to get mixed messages, because you just stepped into the middle of an ongoing argument with myself.
     
    The more you try to clarify what’s happening, the more confused you are going to get. One side will be outraged, and the other side will be begging for attention.
     
    You will walk away, shaking your head, wondering what you said wrong.
     
    The Body Says…
    If I pour honey into the gas tank of a car, and insist it’s a good idea, no matter how much I say it, I would be proven completely wrong when the car itself sputtered, stopped and prove otherwise.
     
    The land of thinking and talking is rich with the spontaneous, creative, contradictory, oftentimes irrational beliefs. In contrast, the body itself can be a simple repository and display of truth.
     
    The body can thrive in a wide variety of conditions. It does not require perfection in its care and feeding. But after suffering persistent lack of care, luckily, the body will protest.
     
    When we persist in acting in a way that is harmful to ourselves, that social self that we present to the outside world, will insist that we are acting responsibly. The body, luckily, will provide a solid counter-argument.
     
    Just like when I was unable to get into a size 14, it was my body that finally stated irrefutably what my thinking had dismissed as impossible.
     
    Growing Up: Moving beyond Emotional Immaturity
    Imagine if your fashion style had not changed since age eight. That’s a scary thought, right? (That’s worth pondering for a moment, just for the hilarious images you’ll generate of you and your coworkers!)
     
    Addictions are our way of handling our emotions in ways that we may have learned as kids, and dismissing any facts that don’t support our simplistic reactions.
     
    Scrape your knee? Here’s a lollipop! All better! When we eat chocolate because someone didn’t return our phone call, we’re using that kid-logic to address our adult emotional needs.
     
    As a 50-year-old, if you still define ‘good food’, the same way you did at your eight-year-old birthday party, you’re kidding yourself. Read one basic article on nutrition and you’ll know our bodies thrive on fresh produce, and have problems with heavily processed food. If you still think vegetables are for health fanatics and fast food and sweets are the only good food, you’re stuck.
     
    If you’re continually hungry, thin and weak, you don’t know how to feed yourself properly.