Change is hard.

A bit of bright advice every day can help you make it through to the other side.

Today on The You Can Heal Your Life Podcast, we're sharing an excerpt from the brand new

audiobook on this bright day by New York Times best-selling author Susan Pierce Thompson.

Susan empowers you to do the work to heal both your body and your mind, and focus on

the meaning and purpose in your life beyond food and weight so you can keep moving forward

in your food addiction recovery.

You can listen to the full audiobook, free now with a trial of the Empower You Unlimited

Audio app.

To download it today, visit hayhouse.com slash Empower You.

Introduction

Dear listener, welcome to a year of daily meditations created to support and inspire

your bright journey.

I created Brightline Eating, BLE, in 2015 after two decades in various 12-step food recovery

programs.

What I saw in some of those rooms were people who had lost all their excess weight and

kept it off for decades.

As a brain and cognitive scientist teaching a college course on the psychology of eating,

I knew that was an anomaly in the weight loss annals.

But more impressive was that those same people had achieved a level of peace around food,

that those in the throes of food addiction only dream of.

By studying how highly refined foods affect the brain, I was able to connect the dots

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