For it to work you have to work it! #katijournaltopic

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!