Beyond the Exterior

What do someone struggling with anorexia and someone struggling with binge eating disorder have in common?  To put it in society's terms, what does someone who is starving him/herself and afraid of getting fat have in common with someone who is overeating and is fat or obese? 

Is it possible that all eating disorders, regardless of how they manifest, share underlying similarities?

Pledge to My Body

One of my favorite quotes about accepting our bodies...

Pledge to My Body

I hereby agree from this day forward to fully participate in life on earth. I agree to inhabit the appropriate vehicle for participation…a body. As a requisite for the sustaining of that body, I agree to eat consciously. This agreement fully binds me for the duration of my stay on earth.