Dear Good Girl,

No, I don’t see anything funky. I think your life is very hard. In fact it’s probably been so hard for so long, you aren’t even aware of it and worse, you’ve lost the ability to recognize high tide, when you’re in it.

What you’ve got is an urge to expand and rebel and here’s what I want you to do.

Stop thinking of this in terms of something gone wrong! I think you’re hard-wired this way. If you’re not performing excellently by rote - then you must be broken, crazy, manic-depressive. I’m sorry, but that’s ludicrous!!!

Instead, try to recognize, it’s a freedom urge you’re having and it desperately needs expression. What you want is a revolution. You want more freedom, but you don’t have to express this by turning into some delusional crack-smoking whore, do you?

I’m pretty sure the eating, etc. is a response to the stress. Take an animal born in captivity. Let a couple decades pass, and then drop them in the middle of the jungle. What should that animal do?

Answer?

Anything it wants to!!

But chances are that animal is going to have a very hard time. Luckily, you are a human being with a higher mind. You don’t want to smoke. You don’t want to eat pie all day, so what do you want to do? What do you really, really, really want to do?

Because what you have is a major opportunity to break out in the most positive way. And if you will and direct this energy to your benefit, you will progress beyond your wildest dreams.