Jen's Story

While navigating my own way through an eating disorder, I often questioned how someone could evolve from "daddy's little beauty" swirling around in her princess skirt into a lost soul looking for self-definition in the numbers on the weigh scale.

My quest to understand helped me realize that many women's sense of self is based on other's ideas of who they are. By looking to the outside for self-definition, we feel disappointed and defeated if we don't measure up. Women are vulnerable to societal influences and negative media messages however I have also discovered that looking only at this external source limits true self-discovery and true healing. The truth lies much deeper than just the society we live in.

As an eating disorder survivor, I know that my food and body conflict symbolized a disconnection from my spirit...my soul....the essence of who I really am...My spirit could not soar; it was covered in anger, sadness, hurt, guilt, shame and betrayal.

As long as I lived a life of pretending everything was perfect, I could ignore every painful emotion that threatened my artificial existence.

Putting the pieces for recovery in place meant making peace with every issue I had avoided for years. Thankfully, one by one the pieces of my puzzle fell into place.

I came to realize in my quest for self-satisfaction that there was no cure, no magic pill and that the answers lay inside of me.

Recovery from bulimia began with trusting that inner voice in the center of my soul. It was about accepting my wholeness....all of my thoughts, feelings and desires....even the ones I didn't like.

I encourage you to honor who you are. We were each born brilliant and beautiful. Free yourself from the restrictions imposed by society and release the beliefs that limit you.

Beauty is the freedom and power to present yourself totally in harmony with who you really are.

You are the gift the world is waiting for!

Love & Light

Jen