True Slimness

About the Author
Sofia Bothwell

Born and educated in Ireland, being a compulsive eater dominated my teenage years. What started as a diet at the age of thirteen had escalated into binge eating and bulimia by the time I was eighteen. Courtesy of my local second-hand bookstore, I enjoyed reading as much feminist and new age material as I could lay my hands on. Through this, I learned how my emotions were linked to when I overate and how my overeating was serving the purpose of suppressing that which I did not want to face. It was then that I started to change the way I ate. I stopped dieting, and started to eat when physically hungry and stop when physically full, noticing the times I was full, yet still craved to eat more; those were the times that I knew, if I did not give in to the craving to eat when full, and instead, just allowed myself to be aware of how I was feeling emotionally, I could break out of the compulsive eating habit and lose my excess weight for good. And bit-by-bit it happened. I became OK with feeling my feelings, and ceased binge eating because of them. Six months of this practice saw me no longer bulimic, and the binge eating had stopped. I was still a chocoholic though, and it took another year for me to knock that one on the head.
This has been a fascinating journey for me. An opportunity for me to get to know me and be me. It is a journey of healing that gave me relief at being free of the scourge of binge eating and excess weight. A journey that led me to experience a stronger sense of self. I learned to accept myself and know the importance of emotions and not suppressing them, but rather see them as useful guides throughout life’s stormy seas and calm lagoons.
I emigrated to London at twenty, living in South Kensington for five years before starting my own self-help support groups for compulsive eating women in a St John’s Wood healing centre just down the road from the famous Abbey Road Studios in London. I trained as a breathwork practitioner in ’93 and wrote the manuscript that is now the True Slimness E-book. Now, having experienced over twenty years of natural, permanent, slimness, I can certainly say this method works and I would love for every woman, fat or slim, who has ever fretted about her weight, to experience what I have experienced - freedom from compulsive eating and excess weight. I now conduct phone sessions and offer the True slimness e-book as part of your healing journey to true and lasting slimness.
Sofia Bothwell2008©

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