Journey Beyond Survival

Morgan is someone I resonate with.  She is a mom like me.  She is a wife like me.  We struggle, we play. I like her sense of words and space.  I'm grateful to her for helping me out as we go to our family reunion today.  Thanks again!  *** edited to add SORRY I scheduled it for PM instead of AM Morgan.  So So Sorry!!! I am completely in awe at being given the opportunity to take up space on JBS’ blog today. She has become more or less one of my heroes, someone that I find myself referring to in conversation with non-bloggy people, someone who amazes me with nearly every post she writes. So in addition to being in awe, I am also completely somewhat nervous at the thought of needing to live up to some shade of her standard so that you, her loyal friends and readers, won’t want to come after me with pitchforks and torches ala Young Frankenstein (a riot is an ugly thing.) Lately I have been thinking a lot about pushing, and all the kinds of difficult t...

by: mish@eatingjourney.com When your life is crazy that’s when you think that you can’t handle anymore. I don’t know about you, but I think that JBS is one of the most amazing women I have ever met. She knows her faith, loves her family, never gives up hope to help her kids and is always loving on other people. She has written about her struggles and her weight on my blog . Throughout my own journey of healing from a pretty crap relationship and then binge eating and weight gain I have come to the realisation that my own ability to handle what life throws at me is a heck of a lot more than I thought I could handle. I honestly do believe that after getting over the negative mental state that I was in, letting go of some insecurities and moving into a place of calm I realised something very profound. I can endure. Perhaps many of our journeys are ones with horrible stories, awkward stages, heart break, tragedies, abuse, weight gain, lost jobs etc. It is either those stories wh...

This is one classy lady that needs no introduction. She is MizFit . She's filling in for me on MissTHANG's birthday. Thank you, and hugs and kisses! (a brief and honest rant about why I love the iron. People are always always asking me . . . ) When I lift weights I know that I’m not, in that moment, thinking about how I’ll look in my sleeveless top, but focusing upon how powerful I feel. When I lift weights I know that I’m not, in that moment, ruminating on boosting my metabolism and shedding fat, but on how I am growing stronger and *bigger.* How, as a result of my iron hoisting, I now take up MORE space in the world. How I’m far less likely to be ignored or overlooked. Through weight lifting I have shed my insecurities and become more empowered in all areas of my life. I trust my instincts more, I speak up without fear, and I have learned that saying NO and setting boundaries isn’t going to cause the world to come to an end. For me weight training is about...

I’ve said before that JBS and I have a lot of things about us, our lives, and our families that make us different. Things that in other times or places might make being good friends kind of difficult. But isn’t it funny how meeting here, in the blogosphere, in this virtual way, can make our similarities so much more striking and magnetic than our differences? She and I, we both have kids that we tirelessly fret over. We both deal with guilt. We both have darkness in our minds sometimes, and we both fight like mad to stay in the light. We have spouses that have gone with us to hell and back. We have so many blessings, but I think that we both occasionally need a nudge to remember that. I’m here today at her place to help her out. She’s got a lot on her plate, as we all do, but hers is especially heaping right now. Over the months that she and I have grown to be friends, she’s heard me say over and over “you can only do what you can do. Just take a look at what you’ve got going on i...

My friend Ryan   helped me out during this crazy circus week.  Unbeknownst to me he wrote this post an hour before having his gallbladder removed.  He is that Guy.  So, he has the honor of covering for me while Chickadee is having surgery for her G-tube.  (a feeding tube in her stomach-she can still eat)  He also does awesome work at this site of his, as well as that site which he co-authors.  He is completely amazing.  If you like Twitter, follow him @NoMoreBacon , but be sure to pack a girdle, because your abs are gonna ache from the lunchtime belly laughing.  Oh! and he is the one that took my other blog from limping to  fabulous .    I asked Ryan to write about how his son's autism affected his own health.  Please savor Ryan Sullivan of  No More Bacon : Autism May Have Saved My Life Now I know that’s a really bizarre thing to say. How a disorder that affects so many children could have had some type o...

Now before I let all y'all to the above, I have to let you hear his side of the story. Without further ado here is Mr. No More Bacon himself: It seems as though there was a mix-up at the factory and the post that I was supposed to have my team of worker bees put up on Wednesday ended up getting pushed back until Thursday. Lazy Bees! Just so you know that when you look up The Guy Who Would Forget His Ass If It Weren’t Attached in the dictionary there is a great big picture of me. On an unrelated note, if you find a dictionary that has a listing for The Guy Who Would Forget His Ass If It Weren’t Attached I’d love to buy a copy from you. Hey, I’ve never seen myself in a book before. This is the part of the post where I quit blabbering and simply offer my sincerest of apologies for the mishap earlier this week. I’m sorry! NOW you can enjoy the guest post from JBS over at my place. Click this link , I promise her awesome post will be found there. -NoMoreBacon This is NOT an April Fool...

I'm a lucky ducky. Because I am guest posting for my friend Ryan @ No More Bacon today. He-like me-has a child on the autism spectrum. But most importantly, he's doing something about it! He ran a 5k for Autism Speaks, and he is sponsoring a giveaway in which he is coming up with crazy amounts of fundraising cash for his favorite cause. Most of all, you should come read me over there because Mr. unBacon is incredibly inspiring. Come on over and read about the beginning or view his inspirational progress photos . C'mon. Please? *photo by puritani35*