It is time to address the familial loyalty to the mis-wired false belief that taking care of myself is the same as neglect.
That neglect is love, and self-care is deprivation. That privation is normal.
Addressing the unnecessary price of adult responsibilities placed upon a child.
Goal: To embrace and reconcile with the neglected and fearful facet of myself. Because the physical cost to continuing to function in the same way, of sabotaging every pound of weight loss, is unsustainable.