Transitions

I'm not usually one for self help books, but recently I have read one and started another. The first, Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach, was more for reference and through intrigue than actual self-help. I wanted to know why I crave sugar, why I don't like eating and why eating nothing can be easier than eating 'a little and often'.

Whoever invented that nugget ('little and often', aka 'a light meal, five or six times a day') obviously had no concept of emotional hunger, or 'mouth hunger' as Orbach calls it.

I digress.

The second book, which I have just started this afternoon, is called "Transitions", and deals with our ('our' reactions) to life's various inevitable changes, or transitions. Needless to say, transition and change is a prominent issue in my life right now. As shown by this helpful list:

1. Changing jobs

2. Changing from being single to being one of a couple, and now from moving to boyfriend and girlfriend to partners.

3. Changing from active addict to non-user, and now to non-user and 'time to cut down on the group therapy and cross this bridge to normal living'.

4. One term ending, a holiday on my own beginning, and then a new job to come back to.

So yes, yes, it's all very relevant.

The third on the list is probably the most bizarre. I had a problem (well, several really) and therapy got me through it. Group therapy, perhaps you know the kind I mean. The promises came true, they materialised as they said they would. And now this infamous bridge to normal living is being crossed. I'm one of the normal people now. What does that mean? What do normal people do on a Wednesday night?

I've heard, and read in The Times today, that people make money from these blog things. Somehow, I don't think I'll be among them anytime soon.

Princess xx