Hey everybody! Happy Saturday.
I hope you had a wonderful, finally Friday
Haven't sang that in a while, so you're
welcome. I don't know if I like this dress
The color, uh, I don't know. Anyways,
so it's Saturday and I have a journal
topic for you.
I've been going through a lot of my old
Q and A's and everything, so stay tuned
for a secret project.
But in doing that I found a wonderful
journal topic idea. And this comes from
Jemma. So thanks Jemma for sending this
quite a little while ago, a couple months
It says, "When watching some of your
videos on eating disorder recovery you
said at the end of one for it to work
you have to work it. I don't know if you
use your own advice for a journal topic
but this really resonated with me
because sometimes we are quick to give up
and say it's not working, but have we
really worked it?"
That's a good question.
"The answer, well is probably no. Not as
much as we could. It reminds me never to
give up and to keep working at it until
it does indeed work. Thanks for all your
amazing videos. They make me smile."
Aww, you're welcome.
And I think that is kind of good.
I forget that I even said that, but
I remember I used to take some of the
girls at the eating disorder treatment
center to the AA meetings, when they were
open meetings. I would go with them and
then bring them back. But it was like, it
works if you work it. Keep coming back.
That's part of the thing they say at the
end. I'm doing this because you hold hands
when you do it sometimes, some groups
maybe not yours but the one I went to did.
And for it to work you have to work it.
Sometimes we don't want to work. I know
we're tired. It's a lot of work.
We're annoyed that we're even doing this
but it made me think about and write about
Have you really worked it?
If you're wanting to give up, what have
you done today to try to make it a better
day? What are things you worked on and
used? What tools have you tried?
What alternatives have you done instead of
self harming before we actually give into
the urges?
If we kind of take stock, we can
A) figure out what's really working for us
and we can refer back and see what's
helped us in the past, but
B) it distracts us in the moment and
we're actually writing things down and
surprise, we're working on our recovery.
So keep at it. Keep working.
And thanks Jemma for sending this over.
Have a wonderful weekend!
I'll see y'all on Monday. Bye!