Joy dot: seeing baby owls in their nest yesterday

I was also one of those people who wanted to understand everything. In the end, understanding didn't necessarily help me do the program, especially at first, although it did help me believe in the program. The changes happened whether I understood them or not.

Actually, a lot of this information was stuff I learned after detox,by taking classes, that suddenly made me understand things I had done in the past. And so many of my issues cleared up on their own from doing the food, so then I could concentrate on the ones I was still dealing with.

But most of this stuff doesn't come into play until step 7 - before you reach that point, the food has more of an effect than anything else you could play around with.

Allison

: Hi Gigi- Wow, I can relate! I like to
: know the answers to things and I
: don't like to wait for them. I
: also like to hide at times and I
: know it isn't healthy for me. I
: now know with the help of
: Kathleen, step 1 and the
: depression group that I now post
: to daily that I was really hurting
: myself by not listening to
: Kathleen and others who told me to
: "just do the steps".. It
: was way more interesting and
: dramatic for me to "think
: about things" (BE,
: depression, my PTSD, past
: childhood abuse) instead of just
: doing the steps. I love to over
: think everything!!!!

: I got the Safe Place CD from the
: store and it has really helped me.
: Something about guided imagery
: really works for me. Probably
: because I am being guided by
: someone besides my silly self LOL!
: HUGS, Laura