Avoiding and dealing with Chronic Ilness! Fatty Liver Disease Consulting and Coaching. Challenging the system! Filling the void of love from parents. Read a very powerful article that talks about how girls deal with not being loved by their mother in my case it was both parents but the descriptions of the ways we self soothe perfectly describe me. I am comforted somewhat knowing that picking at my skin and a bad relationship with food are expected reactions in a house with no love.