Thank you Pam. I feel like printing your message and putting it inside my journal.

There is a line between gentle self awareness, discovery, finding your truth in self destructive behavior and acting on it in a positive manner or finding the truth only to be made to feel MORE self loathing,and regret followed by more punishing thoughts of self recrimination only to have the end result be MORE comfort eating. The latter has been my downfall and I don't quite know how to overcome it.

Maybe 2019 will be better