Real Hunger

Once every five weeks I write a volunteer article for Press Service International and Christianity Today Australia.
Here's my latest one:

I’m lonely. Or stressed out. Or scared. Or lost.
These are many of emotional scenarios that end up with the same conclusion: food.

The struggle I have with emotional eating is a bizarre one, because I’m rarely actually hungry. Instead of a pit in my stomach, there is one somewhere in my heart. It needs a distraction. It needed filling. It needs comforting.

For whatever reason – I’m still not entirely sure why – turning to food as a form of comfort is one that seems so natural to me. It could be because food did indeed provide me with that sort of comfort growing up.

Read the entire Real Hunger article at Christianity Today.