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Relationships Replace Eating Disorders
Volume XXVI
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 Welcome to this month's Good News!
I will admit it - I'm a sucker for a new year.
Each year, right about this time, I become convinced
that big change is on the horizon. I am just sure that anything I
didn't like about the outgoing year will be magically swept away the
moment the clock strikes 12:01 a.m.
And each year it takes me about three weeks before it sinks
in that the new year looks, feels, and acts surprisingly like....the
old year.
Hmmmm. Yup. You guessed it. Right about the time you
are receiving this ezine, I am starting to feel the same ol' same ol'
in the new year once again.
So this year, I have decided that instead of waiting for the year
around me to change, I will be proactive and begin to change my
approach to the new year. Forgoing my more traditional
'resolutions', I am adoptiong some new year's
'intentions' instead. So read on for more about
intentions vs. resolutions, as well as extra special good news wishes
and inspiration from Andrea, Lynn, and Robin, the unveiling of the
new Key to Life and MentorCONNECT websites, my answers to your questions, a special advance giveaway of my new BOOK, Beating Ana, and lots more!
Happy New Year!
Warmly and with HOPE,
Shannon
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Special "Beating Ana" Book Giveaway!
 Next month is the most exciting (and busiest!) month we at Key to Life have had in quite some time. Shannon's new book, " Beating Ana: How to Outsmart Your Eating Disorder and Take Your Life Back", is finally arriving in bookstores everywhere!
To celebrate, Shannon will give away an autographed copy of "Beating Ana" to one lucky Good News reader. All you have to do to enter is to send in your answer to this question (winner will be chosen 'lotto' style *)
I want to BEAT my eating disorder because.....*
So tell us - why do you want to get better? What do you dream of
for your life that is only possible when you are FREE from your eating
disorder? We will print a selection of all responses (anonymously if you prefer) in the February edition of Good News.
And one lucky winner will start out the New Year by "Beating Ana" - hot off the presses!
* One entry per reader. Email all entries to: book@key-to-life.com. Eligible entries must include the following: Your Name, Your Mailing Address. |
MentorCONNECT and the New Key-to-Life.com Go Live!
Come visit us at www.key-to-life.com
 After months of research and preparation by your Leadership Team to better meet your needs, the Key to Life website and the MentorCONNECT global mentoring forum portal have both gotten long-anticipated makeovers!
Check out these great new features:
MentorCONNECT e-mentoring community (FREE lifetime membership - join before Feb 1!)
Gurze Books' Beating Ana Blog
Monthly Recovery Podcast hosted by Shannon
A Day In the Life: ED Recovery Blog
Great Recovery Music
Come visit us and celebrate the start of 2009 with Key to Life and MentorCONNECT!
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Shannon's Column: New Year's Intentions
I have been pondering the meaning of life lately. More specifically, I
have been pontificating to myself at length about the meaning of life
before, and after, "Beating Ana". I have always wanted to write and
publish a book....I just don't think I ever actually believed that I
would do it! Sort of like how I felt all during my recovery
process....for full article click HERE
To learn more about Shannon click HERE
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Andrea's Column: "I Wish I Knew What To Say..."
by Andrea Roe
All I want is for my little girl to get better and start living
a healthy life filled with happiness and laughter, not tears of
sadness. It breaks my heart that she thinks so little of herself.....
Several weeks ago, I met with a woman whose teenage daughter
currently battles an eating disorder. I was the first person she had
ever met that had recovered from an eating disorder and....for full article click HERE
To learn more about Andrea click HERE
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Lynn's Column: Life in spirit (inspired)
by Lynn Gerhard
Step 11 - Sought
through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for
knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
OK. I'm
eleven years sober, and even so I hit a rough patch. Life caved
in on me. I caved in on me, not able to do for myself
the things I needed to do. And then I
lost heart and wondered, "What's the use of carrying on?" It
happens...
even when you are living by the principles of recovery and working with
others. Perhaps it especially happens
when you have some time in recovery....for full article click HERE
To learn more about Lynn click HERE
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Robin's Column: "Back into the Fire"
by Robin Richardson
When
I was a little girl, I loved horses. I started riding when I was
five and must have owned about 20 of those beautiful Breyer plastic
horses.They were my "Barbies" and I named them and created imaginary
lives and families for each one.When I was nine years old, several
girls accidentally started a barn fire in a huge, beautiful barn
....for song lyrics, music clips and full article click HERE
To listen to "Back Into the Fire" click HERE
To learn more about Robin click HERE
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Q&A with Shannon: where YOU share your questions and I do my best to answer!
For this month's Q&A simply click HERE
to read the latest questions that have been submitted and my answers!
All Q&A will be archived with the newest questions displaying first.
To submit your question click HERE. I will answer each question in the order it was received.
xo
Shannon
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Until next time....remember that Relationships Replace Eating Disorders, and that this is the kind of Good News that lasts and lasts - and turns into RECOVERY!
Warmly and with HOPE,
Shannon, Andrea, Lynn & Robin, & the Key to Life Team
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| I'm
happy with the way I am. I'm not like American film stars. I'm
naturally curvy. This is me. Like it or lump it. People think that if a
woman isn't rail-thin there must be something wrong with her - it's
such nonsense.
-Kate Winslett, Actress |
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