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the emotional feelings network
of sites was designed like this because as an ex-night eater, I was also faced with many other life dysfunctions,
mental illness I was unaware of, domestic violence, a lack of any positive self esteem & so much more....
As I began my recovery,
I began to slowly discover how all of the subjects contained within the emotional feelings network
of sites are connected to each other. Soon I also discovered that there's power in educating yourself about it
all.
As you gain power thru your newly acquired knowledge, you begin to regain a
sense of control. As you begin to feel better, you become stronger & you're more able to begin your own journey
thru recovery & personal growth. Once you begin, you will see how the subjects contained within this network of sites
really is... all pertinent information for you - as a night eater!
visit the homepage for a better understanding of what's contained within the emotional feelings network of
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within the network will be of use to you today....
kathleen
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
David Viscott, MD, psychiatrist & author
so weary are the souls who walk through the
darkness to fill the aching neediness inside of their souls...
food is not what truly fills us...
this is why we search for the pathway to end
the madness that the night times bring to us...
enter here any inspirations, quotes, poems, humor,
stories and other interesting words, including those written by you.... by emailing it to me so i can post it for all to chew
on...
"The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched
hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers
that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lyrics to Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen, by Mary
Schmich:
Wear sunscreen.
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen
would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis
more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your
youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20
years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you
and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but
know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your
life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts.
Don't
put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy.
Sometimes
you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments
you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters. Throw away
your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life.
The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting
40-year-olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're
gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40,
maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much,
or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body. Use it every way
you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.(I'm sure
u know this)
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
Read the directions, even if you
don't follow them.
Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents.
You never know when they'll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the
people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you
should hold on.
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need
the people who knew you when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live
in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths:
Prices will rise. Politicians will philander.
You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when
you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you
never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look
85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing
it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than
it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
"Every now and then take a good look at something not made
with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom, and patience, and solace, and above
all the assurance that you are not alone in the world."
Sidney Lovet
Love
for valentine's day....
And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them.
And with a great voice he said:
When love beckons to you follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your
pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge
become a fragment of Life's heart.
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all
of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, I am in the heart of God."
And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
kahlil gibran
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It's in the news....
Encouragement & Helping Yourself thru Helping Others
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself
I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or
a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Isaac Newton
A white woman, about 50 years old, was seated next to a black man. Obviously disturbed
by this, she called the air Hostess. "Madam, what is the matter," the hostess asked. "You obviously do not see it then?" she
responded. "You placed me next to a black man. I do not agree to sit next to someone from such a repugnant group. Give me
an alternative seat."
"Be calm please," the hostess replied. "Almost all the places on this flight are taken. I will go to see if another place
is available." The Hostess went away and then came back a few minutes later. "Madam, just as I thought, there are no other
available seats in the economy class. I spoke to the captain and he informed me that there is also no seat in the business
class. All the same, we still have one place in the first class."
Before the woman could say anything, the hostess continued. "It is not usual for our company to permit someone from the
economy class to sit in the first class.
However, given the circumstances, the captain feels that it would be scandalous to make someone sit next to someone sooooo
disgusting. "
She turned to the black guy, and said. "Therefore, Sir, if you would like to, please take your hand luggage because a seat
awaits you in the first class."
At that moment, the other passengers who were shocked by what they had just witnessed stood up and applauded.
A very nice one by ogden nash
The first one is one of the many "marriage"
poems that Nash has written:
I Do, I Will, I Have
How wise I am to have instructed the butler to instruct the
first footman to instruct the second footman to instruct the doorman to order my carriage;
I am about to volunteer a definition of marriage.
Just as I know that there are two Hagens, Walter and Copen, I know that marriage is a legal and religious
alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Moreover, just as I am unsure of the difference between flora and fauna and flotsam and jetsam, I am
quite sure that marriage is the alliance of two people one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
And he refuses to believe there is a leak in the water pipe or the gas pipe and she is convinced she
is about to asphyxiate or drown, And she says Quick get up and get my hairbrushes off the window sill, it's raining in, and
he replies, "Oh they're all right, it's only raining straight down."
That is why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce. Because it's the only known example
of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.
So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat over everything debatable and combatable,
Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly if he has income and she is potable.
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"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect
us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us
as effects."
Herman Melville
Self-Knowledge
And a man said, "Speak to us of Self-Knowledge."
And he answered, saying:
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.
You would know in words that which you have always know in thought.
You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.
And it is well you should.
The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;
And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.
But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;
And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.
For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth."
Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path."
For the soul walks upon all paths.
The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
kahlil gibran
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participate in night eating's web journal... it will be good for you to add your opinion, thoughts, description of your night's
eating patterns, helpful advice about night eating, poems, stories, jokes or just anything that is on your mind....
it wasn't until i stepped out of the shadows
and into the lives of others that i began to become strong enough to overcome night eating...
i'm attempting to offer you that first step here!
come on in..... i appreciate your hurt and pain and i invite you to learn to share it with others in the same situation!
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