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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.

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

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Practice Progress Preparation

Written by Valerie on March 31, 2013 — 2 Comments

Rousing the sense that I am in the right place, at the exact right moment, doing the most right thing imaginable, I can relax here.

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What is being done

Written by Valerie on December 3, 2012 — 4 Comments

This morning I heard, “Program is not a sentence.” I am not jailing myself. I have not committed a crime. There is no punishment. This is not a program of discipline. It is a program of observation.

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Days of Awe & Reflection

Written by Valerie on September 17, 2012 — 12 Comments

  Day 1 I write these posts for the food addict who still suffers… including me. I don’t say that for your pity or admiration, but as a caution that my experience, strength and hope is tempered by food addiction. Last night I broke after a week of abstinence with what I am sure would […]

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Let’s change the things we can

Written by Valerie on September 14, 2012 — 4 Comments

Dear Friends, I just wrote an email to Lesley Jane Seymour, the Editor-In Chief of MORE, the magazine “for women of style and substance.” You might want to write to her, too. I was delighted to see that MORE, my favorite magazine, was featuring an article called “Are You a Food Addict?” in its September […]

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