Hungry for Hope Update | Sex and Skinny Tour…
Thursday, September 02, 2010 - Comments 0
Hi friends. It has been a busy summer and I am so excited about some new things that are coming down the pike for True. There is a movement of sorts building, and I can’t wait to tell you more about it as some things click into place.
In the meantime, there are two things I wanted to make you aware of.
First, we just posted a gorgeous photo album from this year’s Hungry for Hope conference at www.findingbalance.com/hfh. Special thanks to JJ Heller (music) and Elaina Whittenhall (photography) for making this super special. Registration for next year’s conference is now open. It will be June 15-18, 2011 and the theme is A Family Affair. You can read lots more about this at the link above.
Second, I am embarking on something called the “Sex and Skinny Tour” in just a couple weeks. I have partnered with Nate Larkin, founder of The Samson Society (a network of community for men) and together we’re going to break stereotypes about the struggles men and women face, and more important, talk about how they intertwine. I first wrote about the correlation between pornography and eating issues in my Life Inside the Thin Cage book 8 years ago, and I can’t wait to get out there and talk more about it. Our first dates are the week of Sept 21 at Anderson and Indiana Wesleyan Universities.
I wrote a pretty personal blog about what some of this is stirring up in me which you can find on the Sex and Skinny Tour website (www.sexandskinnytour.com).
Just wanted to keep you in the loop.
I look forward to talking to you soon in a less newsy, more creative way…
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TO FEEL OR NOT TO FEEL—THAT IS THE QUESTION
Monday, August 23, 2010 - Comments 4
By Valerie Cunningham
I’ve been thinking a lot about feelings lately. Feelings really
confuse me. I guess that’s to be expected. In my family of
origin, feelings weren’t allowed. That’s where the Eating
Disorder came into play. My Eating Disorder told me that if
I restricted my food intake or over-exercised that I could numb
the feelings away. So that’s exactly what I did.
It only makes sense then, that after twenty-two years of
numbing out, that I would be frozen. Stiff. Cold. Emotionally
dead. So when I entered into treatment and made a
commitment to recovery, dealing with the feelings would be the
most difficult part. Not the food, not the necessary weight gain,
but the feelings.
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Hair
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - Comments 3
By Oluwatomisin (“Tomi”) Oredein
I’ve always hated what God threw on my head.
It was too coarse, not long enough, nappy…
which of course implied that I was less than my
classmates, whose hair reflected that somewhere
inside their history, their moms and daughters
had the genes of goddesses. See, they can
control the living beings on their head; and in
their control their hair became adornment, not a
curse, like the one my head wore.
I guess it started when I was six and my older
sister was eight. I have the best older sister in
the world by the way. She is gorgeous inside
and out…and didn’t mean to do what happened
next, honestly.
We had watched so many “Just for Me” kiddy-perm commercials that we decided it was our time to be made beautiful like the little black girl on the box with her pink and green beret and cute outfit. Perhaps fixing our hair will fix the rest of us, we thought. So my sister decided to give me a perm. We had to hurry before our mom got back from the grocery store; perms didn’t take that long right? My sister and I searched underneath my mom’s counter for a few minutes but could only find a bottle of white strong smelling stuff, not a box like the commercials advertised.
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