Challenges

     Throughout my short time in recovery, I have been given many challenges to work on. Some of these challenges have been very easy to do and implement, and a few have been much more challenging, or even impossible for me at the time, with some challenges falling in between these two categories. Some of my challenges have included:

• eating a food based on taste, not nutritional quality
• trying exposure therapy to a fear food
• incorporating a forbidden food twice a week
• incorporating a forbidden food four times in one week
• not weighing myself
• journaling my thoughts versus Ed's thoughts
• journaling my thoughts, Ed's thoughts, and Jesus' input
• creating a support team
• stopping exercise
• eating from a food plan
• reading Ed materials
• acknowledging Ed thoughts and behaviors
• telling my husband more about Ed thoughts

What I realized this weekend is that it is not myself who has falling short and failing certain challenges, but rather, it is Ed failing to rise up to accept and complete the challenge. I hope that recognizing this and attempting to remember it will help myself and others to not place the blame on ourselves when challenges can not be completed, for whatever reason, and to give us more of a purpose behind fighting Ed so that he can be defeated once and for all.

I started this blog as a memoir to share some of my life stories with you. My goal is that these encourage and educate you on how to live a more joyful, healthier, full life; one of hope.

I write about my fascination with whole foods, my love of Jesus, my struggles, my childhood stories, my passion for education, and my devotion to creating a healthy life (body, mind, and spirit) for every person in the world.