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This is the kitchen where we talk about food, life, and recovery—a spiritual path to healing and peace.

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You are invited to keep coming back to A Cup of Kindness to share your experience, strength and hope; fears, doubts and insecurities; and to pick up information, inspiration … and have a little fun!

My story
In January 2007, at the age of 51, I joined a 12-step program and began my recovery from food addiction, losing 75 pounds in the process. Read more…

In January 2011, at the age of 55, I began my recovery from a multi-trauma accident, 36 fractures, damaged lungs, and post traumatic stress. Read more…

I am deeply grateful for all the kindnesses, large and small, offered to me in recovery. Here I am... alive… still making progress … still not perfect … finding a new way forward in a growing community of women and men who share a lot in common around food and life.

I hope you'll join me in this kitchen and let me know what's cooking with you.

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Category Archives: Inspiration

How shall my garden grow?

    Day 3 If my body doesn’t need food right now, what is it that wants to be filled? What’s it for? What’s the meaning of it?     What brought me here? What’s in this for me? What is the ideal that I’m aiming for? What do I care about? What are the […]

Connectivity

  I’m back into a stretch of abstinence from flour, sugar, and quantities of food and leaning into a vegan life. It feels wonderful. The food fog is lifted. Work is getting done. I’m happy and peaceful. It all began during a recent 12-step study group meeting. I had been struggling for and against abstinence […]

Art

For many years, therapists have been telling me to put color on paper. I knew why. It was to move my feelings from hiding low down inside, to expressing themselves where I could see them. Since the early 90s I’ve taken three or four workshops that have required me to paint… in groups. They were […]

Claiming My Gratitude

  My 12-step sponsor suggested that this would be a good time season my Recovery with writing about the good things in my life. Then I heard from a 12-step fellow that she learned how to season her own Recovery by focusing her communication on the positive. So, today I’m claiming my gratitude. I am […]