Work in Progress

Often the topics that I cover during the Hungry for Less workshop are not just lessons that I have learned, they are lessons that I am still learning, still trying to grasp, and, sometimes, still fighting against.

 

This week's lesson is particularly difficult for me -- I have made such progress in dealing with the problems that once paralyzed me in my bed with a pint of ice cream and a bag of tortilla chips but I am still a work in progress. I still have issues that I don't want to face.

 

 Last night's meeting was powerful for me. Do you realize, my sweetpeas, that when you share your lives, your struggles and your pains, you are not only helping the other HFL participants, you are also helping me? Thank you.

Listen to the voice

Change is hard. Even when that little voice in our head is endlessly peck, peck, pecking in our minds that things are not okay. We dismiss that voice by QUESTIONING ourselves, by RATIONALIZING away our concerns, by DOWNPLAYING the problem and by BLAMING ourselves. But the voice in our head persists and it will continue to persist until we face our fears and deal with the issue. Stop dismissing the voice in your head. Acknowledge it. Listen to it.  Ask for its help.  Trust it will provide the answers you need.