Category: EATING DISORDERS

  • Dear Father, I have no intention of making a peace pact between my body and my soul, and neither do I intend to hold back. Therefore, allow me to tame my body by not altering my diet; I will not stop for the rest of my life, until there is no more life left. You should not think that my body is so mortified and weak as it seems; it acts this way so that I should not demand the debt it contracted in the world, when it liked pleasure…Oh my body, why do you not help me to serve my creator and redeemer? Why are you not as quick to obey as you were to disobey His commands? Do not lament, do not cry; do not pretend to be half dead.  You will bear the weight that I place on your shoulders, all of it…I not only wish to abstain from bodily food but I wish to die a thousand times a day, were it possible, in this mortal life of mine.

    SAINT MARGARET OF CORTONA, IN A LETTER TO HER CONFESSOR ORDERING HER TO EAT. FEBRUARY 22,1297, OF STARVATION

  • “Are you hungry or empty?”

    —Jonice Webb PhD

  • “Okay, I’m thinking about food. Does this mean I need something else right now?”

    6 Powerful Steps to Stop Binge Eating for Good

  • Or when I have the overwhelming urge to pop bites of food in my mouth while I’m preparing dinner, I say to myself,

    “Don’t eat before you eat.”

    This Practice Will Make You Stop Your Food Cravings

  • “every time I start to feel like I may start slipping again, I stop and think about what is it in my life that I am currently not satisfied with?”

  • Disordered eating disrupts your natural connection to your own appetite. Once you cultivate and nurture that connection again, you won’t have to live in fear or monitor every choice or tune into your circular thoughts. Your choices will feel organic.

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  • St Macedonius the Anchorite, in order to heal a woman afflicted with bulimia (though eating thirty chickens a day, she could not by surfeit extinguish her appetite but hungered for still more’) came and offered prayers, and by placing his hand over water, tracing the sign of salvation [the Sign of the Cross], and telling her to drink, healed the disease. And so completely did he blunt the excess of her appetite that thereafter a small piece of chicken each day satisfied her need for food. 

    Mental Disorders & Spiritual Healing: Teachings from the Early Christian East
    Jean-Claude Larchet