NEDA WEEK

Today's message was something I felt was very much needed and I hope you get something positive out of the message and are able to use it to your own advantage.

 It's the start of "National Eating Disorders Week 2014" and this year's theme is "I had no idea that eating disorders can destroy lives"  What a powerful message this is and yet so real.  Eating Disorders sadly enough do destroy lives, famlies, and friendships. They impact not only are communities, but even our nation. Speaking for me personally, I have lost people that I cared deeply about to this ugly disease and I want to keep that from happening to anyone else.

I feel that it's time we change the way that we view the world of eating disorders. Things are already starting to change for the better which is a good start.  For those who are suffering or have suffered now is the time to stand up aganist ED and tell the eating disorder we are no longer going to take the ugly tactics any longer.  What a better and more profound time to do this then during "National Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2014" 

You or maybe someone that you know more than likely has experiened some kind of eating disorder.  Now it the time to for you to stand up and get involved, make a difference in your community.  There are so many opportunites to changes lives this week in your own community.  You can join a NEDA WALK or even the 4th Annual Mentor-Connect Virtue NEDA WALK.  You can raise awarness, education, and raise money for better funding for eating disorders, you can host an event, have a booth at a University, have a bake sale, print of valuable information for others, hang up posters, speak at local schools where eating disorders typically begin, and you can use any kind of social media to spread the word as well...get in the the know and do just one thing! You see there are so many ways to make a huge impact in eating disorders today.   The more we are able to reach out to others and help others, the better chance they have to ask for much needed help for their eating disorder...which in itself will make a HUGE difference.  www.nationaleatingdisorders.org

We all must remember that eating disorders are not choices, they are very serous illnessses. 

In the United States alone 20 million women and ten million men suffer from some type of eating disorder which is very alarming to me.  Let's bring that number down and start today!  Education is the key componet in keeping the eating disorder rate down.  If caught early enough within a few years the recovery rate is much greater than those who have suffered over half of their lives.

Trust your treatment team so your healing can begin...You are never alone in this fight.  Full recovery is always possible!