I'm a forever tweaker. Sometimes my creativity comes in great bursts, but usually I'm making little additions and changes that result in a new landscape I didn't imagine but which feels familiar and wonderful when Iarrive.   This is the procss I guide readers through in Healing Your Hungry Heart. When we set a large goal for ourselves, like eating disorder recovery or living a better and more fulfilling life or being successful in a new career the path between here and there can seem formidble or invisible. Regular and consisten tweaking our imagination, our routines, our methods of nourishing body mind, heart and soul is a practical, efficient and creates a journey sprinkled with much joy. I suppose the greatest influence in my life was a psychological deficit that created my bulimia.  All my life I have sought to heal and move through limiting circumstances.  Now in recovery I  don't seem willing or able to stop this this growing through limitations system.  I like it, and it creates many benefits in my life.  First and continued influence would be books and reading. Starting at three years old, when I got my first library card in Ansonia, CT, I've loved reading, books and later learned to appreciate, admire and befriend authors. Natural life, i.e. plants, animals, weather, seasons have been another major and continuous influence and guide and teacher in my life  As a child I played in the wooded areas around my home. It was a safer world and I would be gone all day, from breakfast to dark. When I was 6 - 9 little I met meet my friends in the woods to play pirates all day or to try to capture small wild creatures.  We did trap a toad once.  I held it captive with leaves while my friend ran home to ask his mother if it would give us warts. He returned saying it would gives us warts so we let the frog go. :) When I was10 one summer in Norwich, CT I had breakfast, packed a lunch and rode my bicycle to ride all day, exploring woods and farms, coming home only when it neared darkness. Living an adult life wracked with bulimia was a creative challenge. Going through recovery was a greater creative challenge.  I learned that curiosity, willingness to risk, creativity, willingness  to rebel and follow my authentic heart's desire was crucial for my health and satisfaction in life. Whenever I didn't honor my heart's desire I found myself in trouble.  When I did, I found myself in a better life. Writing and books continue to be my fall back whenever I am in doubt or feel I am on the verge of yet another life transition.  Now I believe my life transition is leading me to a full commitment to the writer's life. I'm not sure what form that twill take for me.  But I have my garden, my books, my writing itself, and the courage to continue to be with my supportive community to find my way.  I wrote Healing Your Hungry Heart: recovering from your eating disorder.. Conari Press published it in 2011. IIt's a good feeling to have that out in the worl It's an even better feeling when I get letters telling me how muchit is helping people understand and recovery from an eating disorder.   I know .there's another book in me demanding to be written... maybe many... but, true to form, I approach my tasks gradually knowing that I will tweak daily and  see unexpected landscapes in my future.  

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Published book: Healing Your Hungry Heart: recovering from your eating disorder, 2011, Conari Press.