Books to read, part 1

Last Saturday at the morning Weight Watcher meeting our "substitute" leader, Mary, came with a stack of books that she had found useful for helping with the critical emotional aspects of over-eating. One of them struck a chord with me (and with many of the other members of the meeting): Pathway by Laurel Mellin offers a practice that helps take out the "emotional trash" that drives us to excess. The Solution, as Mellin calls it, seems to be a way to help re-wire the deep, limbic region of our brain where early memories of fear, abandonment, insecurity, etc. were laid down. Her method involves Nurturing and Limit-setting as learnable skills which, when practiced often, help us to parent ourselves to complete the development necessary to live a balanced emotional, adult life. Scary, but very interesting. I'll keep you informed.