Today I Have Peace and Neutrality Around Food

About this episode

Mike Fetherston shares his journey through food addiction and recovery, detailing the challenges he faced and the path to finding peace around food.

Mike Fetherston has walked a long, humbling road through addiction and recovery. one that has included alcohol, drugs, food addiction, bulimia, and as a result, morbid obesity which plagued him for much of his life. His struggle began early. By the age of two and a half, Mike was already turning to food as a coping mechanism, saying he loved food and wanted to feel as full as he could, from as early a time as he could remember. Childhood brought emotional instability and deep discomfort, and food quickly became his escape. As his addictions grew, he eventually faced life-threatening consequences not only from substance use but also from disordered and compulsive eating. Mike found sobriety from drugs and alcohol in 2005. Three years later, in 2008, he entered his first 12-step food recovery program, beginning what he often calls the hardest journey of all. Food was harder than drugs or alcohol. He admits, wrestling with the question of whether complete abstinence from food was even possible, and often would think to himself that people who said they had it were either lying or didn’t have it as bad off as he did. For the next decade, he cycled through food addiction and eating…

People in this episode

Host: Esther Helga Gudmundsdottir

Guest: Mike Fetherston

Topics covered

• food addiction
• recovery
• emotional eating
• 12-step program
• personal journey

Keywords

• food addiction
• recovery
• bulimia
• emotional instability
• 12-step program

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