Bravo's Bethenny Ever After has a storyline I love. Unlike the other Housewives series, it has a strong woman who worked hard and made something of herself despite having had a terrible childhood. She finally found true love with Jason, fulfilled a lifelong dream of having baby Bryn and for the first time in her life she is working on getting all the bugs out. The bugs in her head, her past. Visits to her therapist are reality tv at it's best. His name is Dr.Xavier Amador, Ph.D. Psychologist, author, Professor and speaker, yes he's real and he was famous before Bethenny ever walked in his office as a patient!

Dr. Amador is a clinical psychologist, professor at Columbia University Teachers College in New York City, the Founder and Director of the LEAP™ Institute and author of eight books including the national best seller “I’m Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help!™”

Almost all of us have issues. We carry these with us and sometimes they are hard to overcome. If we have been lucky enough to have parents, teachers, friends who supported us and helped us up along the way then we are sitting here today on the "Road to Strong!"

Savage Chickens by Doug Savage

I often think of blogging as therapy. It lets the steam out of my pressure cooker, it cracks the seal on my jar of jelly, it breaks the ice on my frozen lake of frenzy! Just when I think "I can't takes no more!"  along comes a blog that taps the ol' brain and releases all the stuff that's been building up. Sometimes we write that blog, but more often I read it on one of my favorites. I wonder if Karen or Brenda, Jayme or Julie know they are performing this medical miracle? Let's not tell them...they might start charging for going to their blogs!

Early Breakfast

Shortly after we married, actually on our honeymoon...my husband found out something about me that he found odd, maybe even disturbing. I hadn't kept it from him intentionally, but it was disturbing nonetheless. I eat cold pizza for breakfast. There, I've said it. It's not that terrible, is it? I can eat almost anything for breakfast except breakfast food. I have over the years come to terms about eggs. I don't like them but I can eat them scrambled, in an omelet that has been loaded with cheese and veges, or in a breakfast taco. But not early, I can't do Early Breakfast.

Let's just say that there is leftover birthday cake on the counter. Your favorite cake with that yummy, thick buttercream icing. Let's just say it's 9:30 and you have a hot cup of coffee or tea or a cold glass of milk and you are beginning to think you might be hungry. Not starving, but you might have room for just a sliver of cake. Not even enough to call it a piece, just a sliver. If you eat it before 10AM it's technically breakfast and you know cake IS NOT breakfast food! So, do you wait 30 minutes and then have a slice instead of a sliver?

What about Chinese takeout? Can you face beef and broccoli for breakfast? But then, how will you explain to anyone why the house smells like takeout at 9AM?

Let's say you haven't been to the store in a while and all that's left inside the fridge is a slice of bologna, a jar of pickles and after you eat that you have to eat a spoonful of peanut butter to make the hunger pains go away. How far will you go with this dangerous mixing of foods?

Now that I've told you one of my darkest secrets, tell me...what's the strangest thing that you've ever eaten for breakfast?