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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!

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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.

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Tag Archives: inspiration

Good enough

Written by Valerie on April 25, 2012 — 10 Comments

For several years, my friend Debby and I have had a weekly, structured conversation that’s mostly about supporting our own commitments to various projects. It’s because of Debby that, in 2010, I took a program in coaching. She said, “You have to do it.” So, I did it. As a part of our work together, […]

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A place for joy

Written by Valerie on April 3, 2012 — 4 Comments

  “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden […]

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Word!

Written by Valerie on March 21, 2012 — 6 Comments

I’m going to voice therapy four days a week. It’s to retrain my vocal folds which were damaged by the endotracheal tube while I was on the ventilator last year; and to increase my diminished lung capacity. During one voice therapy session, I had a flashback to that period on the ventilator when I could […]

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What am I ready for?

Written by Valerie on March 11, 2012 — 6 Comments

Photo credit: Yoga for Creaky Bodies My friend Debby asks, “What are you ready for?” I answer delicately. I am ready to turn towards what I resist with compassionate curiosity. I am ready to embrace what I resist. I am ready to write about it. To ask myself more about it. To find out what’s going on […]

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