Eating Disorder Recovery: Amazing Day
Today has been quite moving and confirming. It seems that when I begin to wonder if I’m making any headway in my work I get gifts.
Los Angeles Hong Kong Healing Bridge
Someone asked for help in getting eating disorder treatment in Hong Kong. Then a post arrived from a clinical psychologist in Hog Kong who specializes in treating eating disorders. She was thanking me for my work and asked for my list of in-patient programs. I could match them up. wow.
Reader Benefits from My Writing
Then a reader wrote several posts telling me how much my writing has helped her and that a story in my online workbook (Triumphant Journey) described her childhood exactly. She said it was as if I had been an observer in the room seeing what was happening on the outside and also seeing her complex inner experience. She says that my writing has been essential in her recovery.
Former Patient Brings Health and Hope to Third World Country
And then, one more. A post came in from a former patient - so I can’t give you details - how I wish I could. She has become internationally famous for her heroic work in third world countries saving countless lives while often putting her own life on the line. She tells me that she loves her life now that it’s so full of meaning and that she is forever grateful to me for making this possible.
Gratitutde
I’m glad for my studies in Buddhism. That helps give me images to hold these feelings. I’m grateful that people write to me, sharing their rich experiences.
I’m in awe and reassured about my work and grateful to the healing life energy in the world and in me that can make what seems like miracles happen. Just when my skepticism about human nature was rising, I’m met with what makes human nature worthwhile and amazing.
I think I’ll sleep well tonight.
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I am the woman Ms. Poppink is referring to who wrote her thanking her for freely sharing life saving information. I will copy and paste my comments to her:
The change and growth in my life continue steadily since your article set me on this new path. One of the more dramatic revelations to me personally was the salt/sugar cycle and the understanding of being physically addicted to sugar as well as psychologically. That knowledge empowered me to finally be able to stop my sugar intake when I realized it was not a choice of free will, but rather a real addiction and had to be dealt with accordingly.
Another OMG moment was the story of Mary. It stirred up images of my exact experience as a child and felt someone must have been there with me and relayed the events to you. I too was a young child, on the floor watching tv, with my father’s uncomfortable presence behind me in the recliner, dreading when I would be called to join him in the chair. The description of Mary’s panic, focus, zoning out and becoming invisible are so closely matching my feelings it took my breath away to read it.
I am 52 years old and only now am beginning to see what I thought was a life long series of mistakes, misjudgments and failures, was in fact a pathology which worked to save me as a child, but robs me as an adult.
I attribute my future success to stubbing on your article, providing me with insight, understanding and a workable program to squarely deal with the horror of my childhood.
It is my hope that you receive all the suitable recognition and financial rewards due such a noble undertaking as sharing this wisdom.
Jackie
Just want you to know your information is powerful and very helpful. Been in counseling for years and never got this good and direct information. Thank you very sincerely,
Do you know how powerful and life changing the information you are providing for free is to someone like me? I have been through years of therapy and never gotten to where just reading the first part of your program has taken me.
Bless you for everything you went through, training, life experiences, etc, to bring this to people who desperately need it and can’t access it in their normal lives.
Thank you for providing it free and easy access. Your program is more solid, deep and successful than anything I’ve ever come across and in my case needed greatly.
As I continue through it, I will share it and use it to help others too. But first I will use it for me.
Thank you from the deepest part of me.
Jaclyn Yvonne
Never, ever give up!
Thank you for your inspiring and supportive posts. I greatly appreciate hearing from you.
Congratulations on the great strides you have made in your recovery work. And thank you for letting me know about your life and how my work has been of benefit to you.
warm regards,
Joanna