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Month: May 2017

Cold Oatmeal

Posted on May 22, 2017May 22, 2017 by Rhonda Van Donge

ED sits sullenly on the back burner, pushed out of the way to make room for the more important pots to boil.  He sits congealing

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This Passionate Teeter Totter-er

Posted on May 9, 2017May 10, 2017 by Rhonda Van Donge

In grade school my friends and I went through a teeter totter phase.  Our main goal in teeter tottering: to see how high we could

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Question Mark or Period?

Posted on May 2, 2017 by Rhonda Van Donge

The beginning and the end.  From the start to the finish.  The gun goes off and the tape breaks.  The light flips on and the

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Please join me in finding joy in everyday! I spent years trapped in an eating disorder, but now I experience the freedom of letting go into God's hands. This blog is a celebration of God's grace. Allow my words to speak to your heart. I may use my lessons from ED, but I believe those lessons can be universally applied to all our lives as children of the King! We are each created to thrive!

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Living joyfully this second chance at life. Refusing to let it pass me by. Family, health, hard work, God's grace over it all.

Instagram post 2192973781859918189_1369960480 “Do you believe recovery is possible?” she asked me.

I looked her in the eyes, chose my words carefully and responded with confidence, “I trust that God will heal me. I have no doubt that he can help me fully recover.” She exploded.  Her face radiated anger, and she could barely form a complete sentence to reply.  After all of her years suffering from her eating disorder, the relapses, the different treatment programs, her stolen life, she was angry at me for even daring to say that God would heal me.  Her history had taught her that an eating disorder never leaves, that it always comes back, that it would be something she’d have to deal with for the rest of her life.  She had no reference for belief that recovery was possible, and I think she resented the fact that I would dare to defy her own experiences in a God that had let her down too many times to count . . .

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Instagram post 2191176689587954725_1369960480 I was going to say something wise today about how so many can feel after all the Thanksgiving feasting, but then I found this quote and it said it like I wanted to say it.  I came back from treatment the day before Thanksgiving.  Talk about being thrown into the fire. 🙂 But I came in with a plan and a much healthier view of food.  And though I may have moments or days when I get hard on myself for what I eat, like I think many people do, I remind myself often that life is about balance. 
So before you hit the gym extra hard this week to work off all your pumpkin pie and stuffing, remind yourself that what you ate last week or yesterday doesn't have the power to steal your joy today.  Don't focus on food; focus on the friends and family that circle around the table and mingle at the parties.  Don't focus on what you can or cannot eat.  Instead, be balanced.  Probably 4 pieces of pie in one night isn't balanced.  But then again, eating a bit too much pie one day out of 365 isn't too out of whack either. 
Balance your perspective by focusing outward instead of inward.  Find your people and find your joy.  Use them as the scale to measure your Joy Today.

#joytoday #hopewriterlife  #hopewriter  #thanksgiving #thanksgivingfeast #edrecovery #eatingdisorder #balancedlife #balancedeating #healthyliving #focusonhealth #guiltfree #foodfreedom
Instagram post 2188645416613159205_1369960480 We are not sure how, but he turns 8 today. And that means the boy should have his first bike not handed down from his brothers. Unfortunately, snow. But I don't think that ruins the day he's been looking forward to since probably 11 months ago. I love celebrating my boys. And today belongs to this peanut who I can't really call a peanut anymore.

#ilovemyboys #birthdayboy #momofboys #boymom #newbike #celebratebirthday #november30
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