"I have lost an outdated coping mechanism, but rekindled a deep and profound connection with my mind, body and soul that can never be unknown. I will forever be awake."

Sometimes I miss my binges.

The complete and utter take over; the loss of control; the numbness. It felt like pure surrender.

But I don’t have that anymore. That’s not to say I don’t still binge or eat emotionally. But the numbness, the detachment of my behavior from my emotions and soul, is impossible to achieve now. Because once you know something, you can’t unknow it.

Through Marc’s teachings, and his wonderful support staff at The Institute for the Psychology of Eating, I am now in the know. When my binges arrive, I know to honor them, to slow down and be with myself through them. I know they have come to soothe me, to comfort me and protect me. My binges make me acutely aware of the delicate dance of my emotions and inform me that something is unbalanced.

With this knowledge, food doesn’t have the same power over me that it once did. The ignorance is gone, and it took with it the guilt, the shame and the numbness. I now know how to inquire and listen to what my binges and cravings are here to tell me, and can correct whatever unbalance in kind.

I have lost an outdated coping mechanism, but rekindled a deep and profound connection with my mind, body and soul that can never be unknown. I will forever be awake. Thank you!