Each Day a New Beginning: August 24th

There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
—Pearl S. Buck

No new door is opened without the inner urge for growth. Dreams guide us, encourage us, stretch us to new heights — and leave us momentarily empty when they are dashed.

Recovery has given us resilience and a multitude of reasons for living. We have come to understand that when one dream serves us no longer, it is making way for an even better one. Our dreams are our teachers. When the student is ready, a new one comes into focus.

Dreams in our earlier years often come to nought. They couldn't compete for our attention as effectively as the self-pity. The direction they offered was lost. Each day that we look forward with positive anticipation, we put the wreckage of the past farther from our minds.

Our dreams are like the rest areas on a cross-country trip. They refresh us, help us to gauge the distance we've come, and give us a chance to consider our destination.

Today's dreams and experiences are points on the road map of my life. I won't let them pass, unnoticed.

From Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women by Karen Casey © 1982, 1991 by Hazelden Foundation.

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I resigned from my full time job yesterday. My final day will be September 6th, my 4th wedding anniversary, oddly enough.

I feel that a new door is opening for me, because of my urge for growth. I will finally write my book, The Fat Girl Blogs, and have it published on Amazon.  Writing a book has been a dream of mine for decades, and I finally have the self-confidence to actually put that dream into action.

Recovery has given me resilience and a multitude of reasons for living.  Where once I devoted my life to food, and to shutting DOWN, I now devote my life to living and staying conscious.  Where once my dreams fizzled into nothingness because of self-pity, they now FLOURISH due to self-EMPOWERMENT!

I can do anything I set my mind to do.  My dreams and experiences are points on the road map of my life. I won't let them pass, unnoticed.  If my book is a 'failure', financially, it will still be a raging success, personally. The joy in life isn't found in the outcome of a situation, but in taking the LEAP itself!