Thursday, December 2, 2010

Daily Encouragement

In July of 2009 I joined a sugar addiction support forum called "First Ourselves".  Each day I get an email from the forum, and I thought this one would be a nice one to share here on my blog.  Here it is:


Daily Encouragement for you, December 2 2010:

"The holidays are a time of huge internal and external expectations. It’s easy to hold a mental image of the perfect holiday, and then feel disappointed when it doesn’t hold true.

One way to ease this disappointment is to uncover the essence of your needs. What is a “perfect” holiday to you? Describe it. Then ask yourself, what needs are being met by that perfect scenario? Is it connection, community, joy, creativity, play, hope, beauty, or love? Too often, we rely on food or shopping to fill so many of our needs. Or we overcommit without thinking. By contrast, when you’re aware of the essence of what you need, then you can flex and bend and find ways to meet your needs in a myriad ways."

From firstourselves.org, Stick with your weight loss goals over the holidays

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