Finding Your Way

In 2007, God led me to offer Wellness retreats.  In 2009 He moved me to offer groups to follow up retreats, and add members from my clinic practice as well.  Next came "Real Comfort" retreats. In one group a gal said, "I cannot find my way out of this problem.  It's like I live with a monster inside me."  So we named the groups "Way Groups."  We walk together, and we all are finding our way.

There are usually two things that have to be addressed immediately, and a third that takes time.  

First is "food addiction" which is a neurotransmitter issue, and second is the disappointing fact of the body's resistance to losing fat.

The third is a love issue.  A God issue.  Do I love God enough to obey Him even in this? And what about my emotional eating piece that I know I have?

To be free from using food for the wrong reasons, all three have to be addressed.

So begin by designing or finding a way of eating that  is sustainable.  Second, find another person to join you. And start keeping track of each other's progress. Or lack of it. And hang in there.  God loves our efforts.  Hope  comes to anyone who begins a program that can transport them out of the desert where they may have wandered for forty years as I did.   Just like happened for the Israelites when they crossed that Jordan river, hope came.  Hope can come to you, too.

So begin, and see if you can identify God's encouraging activity in your life.  I believe you will.

For me, it began like this: I went from a doctor who didn't think she had anything to offer to people who wanted to get over overeating, to making changes that are sustainable, to praying that I get over the fear of helping people with that problem, to having an office full of folks with that same problem, beginning the very next week!

So watch out what God will do.