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    The Source: A Woman’s Journey from Food Dysfunction to Healthy & Happy Eating

    by Amber Caudle May 09, 2021 3 minutes
    All photographs by Hailee Repko / CNW Agency

    Amber Caudle, founder of The Source Café in California, shares her path to healing from an adverse eating disorder — plus 2 favorite recipes

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    My food journey has been a wild one! I have had a dynamic emotional relationship with food since the age of 8 years old. My story is a long emotional one and I actually have a book coming out soon on my relationship with food.

    I started having disordered eating and abusing food at a very young age. I started off starving myself, limiting calories by restricting, dieting, over exercising, purging and binging. This painful cycle went on for over three decades! I was exhausted and

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