Ep76 – Saving Sara: A Memoir of Food Addiction – Sara Somers

On today’s episode, Sara Somers shares her person journey overcoming food addition. In her latest book, Saving Sara, she accounts her nearly fifty year battle. Her memoir is brutally honest and intimate. Somers offers readers an inside view of a food addict’s mind, showcasing her

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On today’s episode, Sara Somers shares her person journey overcoming food addition. In her latest book, Saving Sara, she accounts her nearly fifty year battle.

Her memoir is brutally honest and intimate. Somers offers readers an inside view of a food addict’s mind, showcasing her experiences of obsessive cravings, compulsivity, and powerlessness regarding food. Saving Sara chronicles Somers’s addiction from childhood to adulthood, beginning with abnormal eating as a nine-year-old. As her addiction progresses in young adulthood, she becomes isolated, masking her shame and self-hatred with drugs and alcohol. Time and again, she rationalizes why this time will be different, only to have her physical cravings lead to ever-worse binges, to see her promises of doing things differently next time broken, and to experience the amnesia that she―like every addict―experiences when her obsession sets in again. Even after Somers is introduced to the solution that will eventually end up saving her, the strength of her addiction won’t allow her to accept her disease. Twenty-six more years pass until she finally crawls on hands and knees back to that solution, and learns to live life on life’s terms.

A raw account of Somers’s decades-long journey, Saving Sara underscores the challenges faced by food addicts of any age―and the hope that exists for them all.

Get the Book Here:

https://amzn.to/36NNFXE

Website:

https://sarasomers.com

Social Media:

FB – @savingsarathebook

IG – @savingsarathebook

TW – @sara_somers

Blog – saving-sara.org

If you or someone you know is coping with food addiction, please refer to the following resources discussed in the episode for support!

GreySheeter Anonymous – https://www.greysheet.org

Overeaters Anonymous – https://oa.org

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