How can I transcend my feelings of isolation?

Anything that helps you transcend your isolation will help you lose excess weight and keep it off. More than that, though, transforming and transcending isolation is the essence of real healing. Even the word heal derives from the same Indo-European root as “to make whole” and “to become holy.” Social support is only one of many approaches that can help you begin healing the pain of isolation. In chapter 7 of the book Eat More, Weigh Less, I describe several other techniques, including meditation, that can help you to quiet down your mind and body enough to rediscover and reexperience what you may really be searching for when you overeat: an inner feeling of peace, joy, and well-being that transcends the pain of isolation. Even the word yoga comes from the Sanskrit root meaning “to yoke, to connect, to bring together,” also translated as “union.”