One For The Planners
Today, I wanted to provide some encouragement to those of you who may look around at the life you are living and think… “What in the world am I doing.” I have always been a planner – I mean color coordinated calendars and post-it reminders and always knowing what is coming next - type of person. Rarely did I feel I fit into my class or got along with my peer group because I was always looking ahead and knew EXACTLY how my life would unfold. Benjamin Franklin’s quote, “By fail
Sitting At Rock Bottom
Rock Bottom : the point of being at your very lowest. While it is a myth that recovery only occurs once rock bottom has been reached, for...
ED Recovery in Marriage
I thought it might be interesting to briefly discuss the relationship between eating disorders & marriage. For those of you who may be newer to my site, I was diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa 6 years ago and have been on a recovery journey ever since. Throughout these years I have suffered many relapses but also found much growth as step by step I slowly embraced this new life I was given. In 2020 I began dating Micah Hastings and by last July we were happily married. While ma
Say It Out Loud
It has been a while since I addressed eating disorder recovery. So I figured it was about time for another post. If you asked me what I...
The Waltz of Marriage
Submission [n] the action or fact of accepting or yielding to a superior force or to the will or authority of another person. Do those words make you cringe? What if I told you that submission is a fundamental part of biblical marriage? Ephesians 5: 22-27 “Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit
David & Goliath
Change [v] make someone or something different; alter or modify. [n] the act or instance of making or becoming different. Last Friday my husband and I climbed into our loaded vehicles and made the 7.5-hour drive to our new home: Fredericksburg Virginia. We drove through the flat roads of Ohio, cruised across bridges and boarders, winded through the mountains, and finally sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic before crossing the finish line to our home. Sunshine and warm weather gre
