Healing the Wounded Healer, Oprah Winfrey, and Me
This week I officially started my book tour. For many years I have done radio interviews promoting what I thought was going to be the soon release of my book The LifeQuake Phenomenon and then a sudden upheaval in my own LifeQuake journey would force me to put the book aside and deal with the health crisis du jour that was presenting itself at the moment. What each illness I encountered had in common was that they were incurable by modern medicine. Each time I went on a search to be healed, I discovered that I had to find the answers myself and in turn disseminate the information to help others in the same boat.
And then I finally finished it. I had to leave town and hole myself up 125 miles away to get it done but alas it did get done. My first book was published.
While doing a radio interview on my book, the talk show host asked me this question: “If I could give Oprah Winfrey advice, what would I tell her? “ Now, Oprah has the crème de la crème of fitness, psychology, and spiritual gurus at her beck and call so who was I to tell Oprah anything she hadn’t already heard? And yet, in watching her show as she reported the feedbacks she received, there was one piece I thought was missing. Yes, food addiction can be a reflection of not enough fun, not enough self-care, and too much work. And yes, it is good to ask the question, what am I really hungering for? But one thing bothered me: she kept using the word control to describe the problem, “getting control over my being”, she said. She also denied being depressed. Now, I don’t think Oprah Winfrey is clinically depressed but I do think she’s in a LifeQuake. This time I don’t think this weight gain is a symptom of her old