I had to leave my home town to find rcovery. I couldn’t stay away from the old friends.

Addiction comes in many forms, such as drugs and alcohol, addictions to behaviors, like eating, and more. Individuals turn to things outside of themselves as a way not to think or feel. The temporary relief found in avoiding the pain eventually becomes more complicated and more painful then the initial pain.

This is a valid question! So much focus today is on how a person looks and if he or she has the perfect body. This mentality sets men and women up to manifest eating disorders. How can an individual distinguish whether or not he or she has an eating disorder?

For many of us who know and love someone who is alcoholic, drug addict or suffering from an eating disorder know how hard it is to say ‘”NO.” The disease of addiction is so powerful it takes everyone around the individual addicted and makes them part of the illusion to make everything okay.