How frustrating to want to know why? To ask people why? And no one understands! At least he or she thinks no one else understands. The amazing journey of recovery if from an eating disorder, alcoholism, drug addiction, gambling, sex addiction and so on is a slow process. Typically he or she feels all alone, no one understands or cares, no one will give him or her answers to the question why?

The first time I heard Dr. Phil McGraw on Opera discussing the book “Life Matters” and he spoke of when people ask why? And he said something so profound that the earth stood still he said “why not.” This was the moment that I realized things happen to people good and bad. The life experiences I had allow me to be the person I am today. The decisions, choices, people, places and things all were for a purpose, to make me a more valuable human being.

Today I can help people come to find themselves through recovery from what seems like the depths of hell into a life beyond anything he or she could have imagined. It all starts with acceptance of “why not” the eating disorder that took control and gained a life of its own no longer dictates my moods, my personality, and my intelligence and so on. On this journey of recovery everything is in divine order I may not always see it at first yet always later on it becomes clear.

My true purpose is to allow others who feel like what life experiences they had are for a reason. Not a life sentence rather a decision that can be looked at and a lesson learned. The life he or she lives is yet another chapter in the book of life to show others they too can recovery from the disease of self. How amazing is that?