I am thinking it is definitely helping. Not just with impulse shopping but irritability with my daughter when she does something she knows I don’t like.

I have always beaten myself up because I don’t have a job. My daughter is nearly 12, and I am well educated but I am only a housewife. And now I tell myself I take care of my husband and daughter, and that is an important job and there is no reason to be ashamed of it.

I have gone to bed without wishing I’d die of natural causes in the course of the night for over a week now. I used to wish that for myself nearly every night for years.

Sometimes, I even find myself thinking positive acclamations, like I am strong, I am a survivor, I am good enough.

Brain chemistry is a weird thing indeed.