Real Recovery from Bulimia & Binge Eating

Bracelets are IN!

Finally! You can check them out and purchase them here.

The PayPal buttom includes shipping info for the US only, so if you live outside the US, please email me your order, and I can invoice you directly.

Yay! New bracelets in the works!

My old jeweler is back on the case! He’s working on the brown bracelets right now. I’ve ordered 100 of them, so I hopefully won’t run out again too soon! The regular bracelet is 8.5 inches (22 cm) and ½ inch wide (1.5 cm). He’s also going to do a slightly longer version (9 in / 23.5 cm) if you think the original might be too small. I’ll let you know as soon as I have them in my hot little hands!

My new bracelets are here!

Yay! I finally got my new bracelets from my jeweler yesterday! I love them. They are brown leather with embossed text. These are very subtle and pretty to wear, but they have very powerful words on them. I went with a few different words from the original bracelets. The first words were very important to me in recovery. Since recovery, however, I find the new words have even more power for me:

Gratitude, Forgiveness, Courage, Acceptance, Kindness.

Below are (very) short descriptions of what these new words mean to me and to the life I want for myself and the person I want to be. These descriptions don’t do the words justice. I really should do a separate post for each one . . .

Gratitude: Gratitude for all the wondrous, big and tiny blessings in our life. Our lives aren't perfect, as we judge they "should" be, but they are filled to overflowing with beauty and new days and possibility and miracles, if only we lift up our eyes and look.

Forgiveness: Forgiveness for ourselves for mistakes we've made and will make in the future. We aren't perfect and don't need to be. Once we learn forgiveness for ourselves, we will be able to forgive all others who have hurt us, since only people who are hurting inside can hurt others.

Acceptance: Acceptance of our true selves and that our deepest wants and needs are worthwhile and valid, so that we can unconditionally trust our hearts to lead us to peace. Acceptance & non-judgment of all others exactly as they are, without expecting them to conform to our judgment of what is good and right.

Courage: Courage to accept fear and push through it anyway. Fear is usually at the heart of all our problems and self-defeating, automatic reactions. As we learn to trust ourselves, we'll gain more courage that we are capable and creative enough to handle whatever change and challenges come along in life.

Kindness: Kindness for ourselves and all living creatures. We act and respond consistently with compassion, patience, encouragement, and tenderness no matter what. This is how we wish others to treat us, so this is how we treat them, no matter what, bottom line.

Recovery Bracelets Meanings . . .

The words chosen for the Recovery Bracelets have very specific meanings to our journey. This is how I feel about these words and how they relate to my recovery and to the new life I’m finding, free of bulimia. Please consider these and comment. I really treasure your input! Remember that three of these words came from you!

HOPE

Hope that we will learn to connect with our inner power to become the person we truly, deeply desire to be, so that we can live the life we truly, deeply desire to live.

ACCEPTANCE

Acceptance of our true selves and that our deepest wants and needs are worthwhile and valid, so that we can unconditionally trust our hearts to lead us to peace.

FORGIVENESS

Forgiveness of ourselves so we treat ourselves consistently with patience, encouragement, and tenderness, and we never give up!

FREEDOM

Freedom to pursue our dreams fearlessly and without restraint, armed with certainty, determination, and passion.

PEACE

Complete, profound peace within our hearts, minds, and souls when we recognize and honor our unique value and importance in the world.

Recovery Bracelets are progressing!

Yay! I found a guy interested in helping me out with this project. He's going to make up some prototypes over the weekend. They're going to be thin leather straps, just like I wanted! I listened to all your suggestions (thank you SO much for these!), and these are the words he's using for the prototypes:

Hope Peace Acceptance Forgiveness Freedom

Let me know soon what you're thoughts are on these, cuz if the prototypes work out, I'm going to order a bunch next week! Also, to be nit-picky, what do you think of the particular order of the words? Right now, with Acceptance in the middle, it's what you see most when you look at the bracelet.

He's going to try a few color schemes, but it looks like the cheapest way to go is a natural black band with colored lettering. Although he could also do a natural hide brown color. He's going to try both silver and pink lettering. He likes red on black, but I think that might be a bit too bold for a "recovery" bracelet - what colors would you like to wear??

Lastly, I think we should call it something other than a recovery bracelet cuz if we live these 5 words, we're already well past recovery and on into wellness and health and happiness and fulfillment. Any suggestions?

Remember that my goal here is to combine the symbolism of the constant reminder of our goals worn on our wrist, with the healing energy of these very positive, inspiring words.

Here is another site I just found on the energy of words

Eating Disorder Recovery Bracelets

I wanted to let you know I'm definitely going to pursue making and distributing eating disorder recovery bracelets like I mentioned in another post. They'll be very simple, but I believe they'll be effective.

My coach has supported this idea particularly based on the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto who found absolute proof that both positive and negative energy create different physical changes in the state of water. Since humans are mostly water, this proof has huge implications for the effects of positive or negative thoughts and emotions on our well-being.

My goal here is to combine the symbolism of the constant reminder of our goals worn on our wrist, with the healing energy of these very positive, inspiring words.

As a gesture of my commitment to my new purpose in life, I'm going to try to get them made pretty cheaply and just send them out to anyone who wants one. Let me know if you're interested of if you have a particular request for a word. I'm still deciding on one or two. This is what I have so far:

Healing, wellness, wholeness, acceptance, love (as in: for the self), compassion.

I have coaching all weekend

I have phase 2 of my coaching this weekend - all weekend. We meet at 8:30 am until about 8:00 pm. So, I'll be MIA until Monday or Tuesday.

I'm sorry I haven't posted much. I've had lots to do to prepare for the weekend. And, it's taking up most of my energy and free-time. Hopefully I'll be back full force on Tuesday with lots more to share from the weekend.

With all the talk about the Live Strong bracelets, including Armstrong's and Breast Cancer Awareness, I'm kinda thinking about designing my own "Recovery" bracelet. It would be pink, of course, cuz it will remind me to nurture and love the hurt little girl inside of me (plus it's my favorite color). I'm thinking leather, like these. My sister bought me one with my initial on it, and I still love it. Hmmm. Would I have the courage to wear it?