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QUESTION:
I was wondering....what is the most helpful/encouraging piece of advice you received in your own fight for recovery?? In other words, when I was first questioning whether I had a problem with food and weight issues (I didn’t know enough at that point yet to call it an ‘eating disorder’), my mentor told me that if I thought it was a problem, it was a problem! We all have an inner intuition – an inner sixth sense – an early warning system that goes off to alert us to danger. When our intuition first kicks in, it often feels vague enough that we could brush it off. But that is only because we are out of practice tuning into our own insider information! When we practice paying closer attention to our inner roadmap, then we have earlier access to potential warnings and expanded capacity to head them off at the pass. Acknowledging that my problem was real then meant that I stopped wasting useless energy talking myself out of recovery work. I had a problem. She knew it. Everyone knew it. But as long as I didn’t know it, nothing would get done to solve it. Once I admitted that I knew it too, then I had no excuse for not doing something about it. I didn’t handle it perfectly. I didn’t solve it on my first (or tenth, or hundredth) try. But eventually I DID solve it. Probably a more well-known version of what my mentor told me is this - knowledge is power. Yes, it is. And all knowledge starts within – with knowing, and being honest with, ourselves. And then the power comes when we act according to our own suspicions, and do something about it! Hope it helps! Warmly, and with HOPE, Shannon Do you have a related question you would like to submit for future editions of Good News? Would you like to send a message of encouragement and support to the person who asked this question? (NOTE: all messages of support will be received and published anonymously in future editions of Good News) If you would like to submit a question or send a message of support please send it to Shannon c/o Good News HERE
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