Internal Barometer

Back when I had problems with binge eating and body image, a psychologist told me I was "lucky" to have the urge to overeat as an internal barometer of when I wasn't going well and needed to look inwards. Lucky, bah! These days my internal barometer is the urge to pick the skin around my fingernails. Yah, gross I know.  It's a reminder to breathe, and check in with myself.  Lucky me! At the moment I have no bandaids on my fingers compared with 5 a week ago when I was going particularly badly (jetlag and tiredness decrease my self-awareness). Progress not perfection, as an Overeaters Anonymous crew would say!