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Hey everybody! Happy Saturday.

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I hope you had a wonderful, finally Friday

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Haven't sang that in a while, so you're

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welcome. I don't know if I like this dress

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The color, uh, I don't know. Anyways,

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so it's Saturday and I have a journal

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topic for you.

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I've been going through a lot of my old

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Q and A's and everything, so stay tuned

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for a secret project.

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But in doing that I found a wonderful

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journal topic idea. And this comes from

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Jemma. So thanks Jemma for sending this

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quite a little while ago, a couple months

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It says, "When watching some of your

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videos on eating disorder recovery you

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said at the end of one for it to work

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you have to work it. I don't know if you

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use your own advice for a journal topic

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but this really resonated with me

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because sometimes we are quick to give up

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and say it's not working, but have we

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really worked it?"

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That's a good question.

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"The answer, well is probably no. Not as

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much as we could. It reminds me never to

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give up and to keep working at it until

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it does indeed work. Thanks for all your

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amazing videos. They make me smile."

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Aww, you're welcome.

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And I think that is kind of good.

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I forget that I even said that, but

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I remember I used to take some of the

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girls at the eating disorder treatment

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center to the AA meetings, when they were

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open meetings. I would go with them and

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then bring them back. But it was like, it

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works if you work it. Keep coming back.

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That's part of the thing they say at the

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end. I'm doing this because you hold hands

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when you do it sometimes, some groups

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maybe not yours but the one I went to did.

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And for it to work you have to work it.

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Sometimes we don't want to work. I know

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we're tired. It's a lot of work.

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We're annoyed that we're even doing this

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but it made me think about and write about

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Have you really worked it?

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If you're wanting to give up, what have

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you done today to try to make it a better

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day? What are things you worked on and

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used? What tools have you tried?

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What alternatives have you done instead of

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self harming before we actually give into

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the urges?

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If we kind of take stock, we can

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A) figure out what's really working for us

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and we can refer back and see what's

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helped us in the past, but

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B) it distracts us in the moment and

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we're actually writing things down and

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surprise, we're working on our recovery.

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So keep at it. Keep working.

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And thanks Jemma for sending this over.

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Have a wonderful weekend!

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I'll see y'all on Monday. Bye!