A yarn about Sugar Addiction and Recovery….

I was on a podcast talking about my struggle with and recovery from sugar addiction.

Seeking moderation is the accepted treatment for all types of disordered eating, which is ideal when it works. But what if it doesn’t? For some of us, letting go of our ‘drug’ of choice completely is the only path to freedom. It is the antithesis of ‘restriction.’ Our lives could not be more restricted than when we are engaged in the obsessive and compulsive throes of active addiction.

Here is a link to my episode on Netta Gorman’s Life After Sugar podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/065-i-thought-my-problem-was-food-but-in-fact-it-was/id1546092478?i=1000556872809

Consistently engaging in the things I love — Skating, surfing, swimming, writing, paddling — has only been made possible through the stability of recovery. One day at a time.

Giving Up

I don’t know about you, but I can be quite the slow learner. Continually pushing shit up a hill until I realize what I’m doing isn’t working out very well.

Einstein posited that insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, it’d be fair to question my sanity at times.

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