लेखक: Alexis Morgan

The author spent the first twenty years of her life in the Pacific Northwest, followed by more than twenty years in Texas with her husband and family.  For the last 15 years she has resided in Arkansas, where she provides psychotherapy services to individuals, married couples and families.  She has had problems with both eating and fatness all of her life, including illnesses and physical limitations caused by obesity.  She has maintained her ideal weight for a total of 4 years throughout her lifetime, including a happy period when she was age 34.  During the weight gain that followed, she became determined to write about the emotional causes of her weight problems.  Thus at age 60, she had been immobile and housebound for approximately 10 years, as the scales topped off at 370 pounds.  In order to save her life, physically and spiritually, she received Gastric Bypass Surgery, which enabled her to lose 170 pounds, providing hope for renewed living.  As the weight decreased, she simultaneously recorded her experiences with frustration, change and emotional healing.  The record now comprises a workbook that can be used by individuals or groups of people hoping to understand what their fatness meant to them, why it was necessary, and what they must do to heal from the childhood pain driving this perpetual source detriment and disability.  The author is a person of faith, who has used her understanding of Christian teachings, first to survive a difficult childhood, subsequently to endure obesity-induced challenges and privations, and finally to seek, find and enjoy a path towards healing.  The author has kept her name anonymous, for the sake of the loved ones who have been part of her lifetime struggle for health and wholeness.