Redefining Comfort
Learning to be comforted by something real.
After years of chasing it, I’m starting to think comfort food might’ve been a bad translation.
Because nothing about what I used to eat for comfort actually comforted me. It just filled the silence, gave me something to do with my hands, and bought me a few seconds of not feeling whatever was sitting heavy in my chest.
Comfort food, for me, was a transaction — not a solution.
I gave it my pain, and it gave me nothing back but a stomachache and regret.
The real joke is that I kept going back for more.
Round and round through the Drive-Thru Dunkin’ Booth, paying for another splash of disappointment like a fool at a carnival game I couldn’t win.
Each bite promised warmth and relief. Each bite delivered the same thing — exhaustion, guilt, and that hollow ache that whispers, You did it again.
These days, I’m learning that comfort doesn’t come in cups or cartons.
It comes in moments.
It’s the quiet before the first meeting of the day, the sound of a friend’s voice on the other end of a call,
the deep breath I take before I reach for God instead of the fridge. Comfort is no longer something I eat — it’s something I allow. It’s presence. It’s peace. It’s the feeling that I don’t have to hide.
When I sit still long enough, I can almost hear God saying,
You don’t need to numb this one, kid. I’ve got you.
And that’s a kind of comfort I never knew existed. No sugar high, no crash, no hangover. Just quiet relief and the kind of calm that sticks around.
So yeah, maybe I’ve retired from the Dunkin’ Booth. But I’ve found something better — a comfort that doesn’t cost me my peace.
I used to think comfort was sweetness. Now I know it’s surrender. Lord, teach me to sit in the ache without feeding it. To rest instead of run,to breathe instead of binge. To find comfort not in the food, but in You.
Still here.
Still finding real comfort in connection, not consumption.
Still learning that peace tastes better than sugar ever did.
Still here — comforted, not controlled.
With gratitude and much love - DeeBo
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