Rainbow Tai Chi

After a 12-year battle with food Sophie Toye invites you to join her on the journey of Rainbow Tai Chi. A journey that takes you home to yourself, a journey she first embarked upon nearly four years ago. This is her storyc of the heartbreak of anorexia. Why is she telling it now? Because there are many of you who have scars of your own, from the deepest of hurts which hide in the darkest of places awaiting the flow of positive energy... When I was 13 I became anorexic – I starved myself for four months and became very thin. My worried parents told me that I needed to put on weight – they banned me from leaving the house unless I showed them that I would eat properly. I began to eat a lot and put on weight, only I could not handle it, so I became bulimic (eating loads of food in an anxious way because I was hungry and then starving myself because I felt guilty and fat). So it began that I would starve myself for a week, binge eat, feel awful then starve myself again. This continued for some time and I did my best to hide what I was doing from others. At my worst points I made myself sick every now and again after a binge. I also experimented with laxatives which caused me pain. Over time my bulimia levelled out so that my starvation would be less severe, and my binges would be less frequent. When I began university to train as a primary school teacher, I was relieved that I would be away from my parents and I could then be in even more control over what I ate. However, I felt self-conscious that I did not eat with my housemates and would eat very little. To make matters worse I would exercise a lot so in reality I needed a lot more food than I was getting and this would often result in binge eating. It was during my time at university that I met my husband to be, Mike. Mike was loving and supportive and I opened up to him about my problems with food. Mike was not aware that I had bulimia when we were together – I was very good at hiding things by then. As part of my teacher training I was based away from home and was put up by a family living in the area. They made me meals which to me seemed huge which was awful, I hated is run by Choy, the founder of this heart, body, mind, spirit system of Tai Chi. Choy has so much wisdom and gifts to share from 35 years of teaching Tai Chi.

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