So it's been a real toughie today trying to motivate myself from the past couple of weeks (in which I have done NOTHING positive and spent quite a bit of time crying, curled up in bed, or drowning my pain in various compulsive behaviors). I'd already established the things I need to work on to develop into the more stable, yet still creative, ( Read more... )

There is an old fitness saying, "Exercise is 90% diet." This pretty much sums up how my plans have been going of late. I was doing fairly well on the 3-part program, until a week of hormonal PMS set off one of the longest running chocolate binges I've ever experienced. I'm talking a large chocolate bar (about 700 calories) every day for 8-9 days ( Read more... )

"All the people in my family are good at anger management. At least, we manage alot of anger." -- JoLI’ve been in a sort of retreat lately, although the first thing realized during this process was how ridiculous a misnomer is that term. How does one retreat from life and yet continue to live it? Is not the very step back and the evaluation of ( Read more... )

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