WEBVTT 00:00:02.170 --> 00:00:03.387 Hey everybody! Happy Saturday. 00:00:03.387 --> 00:00:05.697 I hope you had a wonderful, finally Friday 00:00:05.697 --> 00:00:07.459 Haven't sang that in a while, so you're 00:00:07.459 --> 00:00:10.344 welcome. I don't know if I like this dress 00:00:10.344 --> 00:00:12.692 The color, uh, I don't know. Anyways, 00:00:12.692 --> 00:00:14.606 so it's Saturday and I have a journal 00:00:14.606 --> 00:00:15.580 topic for you. 00:00:15.580 --> 00:00:17.895 I've been going through a lot of my old 00:00:17.895 --> 00:00:21.187 Q and A's and everything, so stay tuned 00:00:21.187 --> 00:00:22.219 for a secret project. 00:00:22.219 --> 00:00:25.506 But in doing that I found a wonderful 00:00:25.506 --> 00:00:27.514 journal topic idea. And this comes from 00:00:27.514 --> 00:00:29.177 Jemma. So thanks Jemma for sending this 00:00:29.177 --> 00:00:30.833 quite a little while ago, a couple months 00:00:30.833 --> 00:00:33.530 It says, "When watching some of your 00:00:33.530 --> 00:00:34.879 videos on eating disorder recovery you 00:00:34.879 --> 00:00:37.509 said at the end of one for it to work 00:00:37.509 --> 00:00:39.324 you have to work it. I don't know if you 00:00:39.324 --> 00:00:40.860 use your own advice for a journal topic 00:00:40.860 --> 00:00:42.802 but this really resonated with me 00:00:42.802 --> 00:00:45.840 because sometimes we are quick to give up 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:47.658 and say it's not working, but have we 00:00:47.658 --> 00:00:49.444 really worked it?" 00:00:49.444 --> 00:00:50.479 That's a good question. 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:53.984 "The answer, well is probably no. Not as 00:00:53.984 --> 00:00:55.957 much as we could. It reminds me never to 00:00:55.957 --> 00:00:57.866 give up and to keep working at it until 00:00:57.866 --> 00:00:59.715 it does indeed work. Thanks for all your 00:00:59.715 --> 00:01:01.783 amazing videos. They make me smile." 00:01:01.783 --> 00:01:03.284 Aww, you're welcome. 00:01:03.284 --> 00:01:04.913 And I think that is kind of good. 00:01:04.913 --> 00:01:06.603 I forget that I even said that, but 00:01:06.603 --> 00:01:09.734 I remember I used to take some of the 00:01:09.734 --> 00:01:11.585 girls at the eating disorder treatment 00:01:11.585 --> 00:01:13.433 center to the AA meetings, when they were 00:01:13.433 --> 00:01:15.249 open meetings. I would go with them and 00:01:15.249 --> 00:01:18.162 then bring them back. But it was like, it 00:01:18.162 --> 00:01:20.285 works if you work it. Keep coming back. 00:01:20.285 --> 00:01:22.601 That's part of the thing they say at the 00:01:22.601 --> 00:01:23.634 end. I'm doing this because you hold hands 00:01:23.634 --> 00:01:24.990 when you do it sometimes, some groups 00:01:24.990 --> 00:01:26.989 maybe not yours but the one I went to did. 00:01:26.989 --> 00:01:30.186 And for it to work you have to work it. 00:01:30.186 --> 00:01:31.963 Sometimes we don't want to work. I know 00:01:31.963 --> 00:01:33.013 we're tired. It's a lot of work. 00:01:33.013 --> 00:01:35.267 We're annoyed that we're even doing this 00:01:35.267 --> 00:01:38.522 but it made me think about and write about 00:01:38.522 --> 00:01:40.679 Have you really worked it? 00:01:40.679 --> 00:01:41.622 If you're wanting to give up, what have 00:01:41.622 --> 00:01:43.847 you done today to try to make it a better 00:01:43.847 --> 00:01:46.159 day? What are things you worked on and 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:48.288 used? What tools have you tried? 00:01:48.288 --> 00:01:50.043 What alternatives have you done instead of 00:01:50.043 --> 00:01:51.866 self harming before we actually give into 00:01:51.866 --> 00:01:52.774 the urges? 00:01:52.774 --> 00:01:54.805 If we kind of take stock, we can 00:01:54.805 --> 00:01:56.911 A) figure out what's really working for us 00:01:56.911 --> 00:01:59.190 and we can refer back and see what's 00:01:59.190 --> 00:02:00.221 helped us in the past, but 00:02:00.221 --> 00:02:02.950 B) it distracts us in the moment and 00:02:02.950 --> 00:02:04.894 we're actually writing things down and 00:02:04.894 --> 00:02:07.052 surprise, we're working on our recovery. 00:02:07.052 --> 00:02:09.090 So keep at it. Keep working. 00:02:09.090 --> 00:02:10.373 And thanks Jemma for sending this over. 00:02:10.373 --> 00:02:11.471 Have a wonderful weekend! 00:02:11.471 --> 00:02:13.039 I'll see y'all on Monday. Bye!