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The Beauty of Eating Disorder Recovery in Midlife

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I wanted to make this YouTube video available to all of you. It’s a presentation that Bonnie Brennan, an eating disorder therapist,and I offered with Eating Disorder Foundation, July, 2021.  Eating disorders occur at all ages and eating disorder recovery at midlife and beyond has its own set of challenges. I’ve spoken with several midlife and older women recently and […]

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Christmas—From Brokenness to Purpose

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How many times have we read through the lineage of Jesus in Matthew 1 at Christmas, struggling through the names, wanting to just hurry and move on to the “good stuff” of the Christmas story? I know I have. In the past few years, though, I’ve been drawn to study more deeply the names in the lineage of Jesus.  In the […]

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Looking for Love

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Love. We all want it. We all need it, desperately. We were made for connection, and we so want to experience someone loving us…deeply, knowingly and completely. What has been the most significant aspect of my recovery journey? To learn of, to deeply experience, and to live in the depth of God’s love for me. It changes me. It […]

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Expectations – What’s Up with Them?

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Expectations are a part of life that keeps us grounded. They help to keep us from living in constant uncertainty and fear. For example, every morning, I expect the sun to rise. When I push start on my coffee maker, I expect the morning coffee I love. When I turn on my shower, I expect […]

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Pursued by Love

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We all desire to be loved. Even more profoundly to bepursued by love. We want to know that there is a love that would do anything to be with us. The loneliness in hearts today cries out for a real love that can pursue, stay and never leave. Is there such a love? Could there […]

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Masks…They’re Not Just for Pandemics

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I think we can all say that 2020 will be remembered as the year we became very acquainted with wearing masks. A lot of us have worn a mask over our faces in every situation that we are with people not from our household. Recently, I was walking into the grocery store with my mask on, contemplating how much […]

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The Messy Middle—Is God here?

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The messy middle of life is a place I tried to avoid for most of my life. I can now say it’s a place I reside daily knowing that this is where real life is lived. It’s the place where pain along with joy resides, loneliness and fear mingle with peace and connection. The messy […]

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Contentment. Is It Really Possible?

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Contentment seems to be one of those elusive words we all like to throw around. We all desperately want it, but do we even know for sure what that word truly means? We assign contentment to the feeling we have when life is good, all our plans play out the way we want them to, […]

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Willingness: Is It Really That Important?

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I’m often asked what the most important thing in my recovery journey has been. What has been paramount in finding real life without my eating disorder, alcoholism and other addictions? Several years ago, I was never quite sure how to answer that. There have been so many crucial moments: honesty, using my voice and connection […]

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Truth, Grace and Time

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I recently read Changes That Heal by Dr. Henry Cloud. He writes about many of the things that are necessary to live in freedom. As I read, three foundational things kept surfacing that I realized were prevalent in my recovery from an eating disorder and alcoholism. The past 11 years God has faithfully used Truth, […]

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