You are welcome — we all find the right things, just when we need them. Just as I find when I read your words here and in your blog too!

With love,
Heather

I really enjoyed reading about how Yoga transformed your life! It reminded me so much of what Qi Gong did for me. I appreciate your ability to step back to look at your life and all the growth you have achieved and express it so clearly and beautifully.

Heather, I am always amazed at the synchronicity of your posts with whatever I am going through in my life or have been processing in my mind. Certain phrases in your post were almost literally what has been going through my head over the weekend! You wrote:

“If I continue to go against my value system, I may end up needing to numb myself or learn to question my inner voice enough to go against it.”

I had a revelation a few days ago – actually, I think I knew this all along, but I just became acutely aware of it. Two years ago, when my life was in turmoil, I believe I knew deep down inside what I needed to do. But fear kept me from doing it. Instead of trusting my inner voice, I listened to all the doubts in my mind and what other people were saying. I believe that I started bulimia as a way to drown out my inner voice and numb myself, not allowing myself to feel my true feelings.

The other revelation I had this weekend was just how much being brought up in a very Catholic society has affected me. I never thought that Catholicism could have influenced me all that much, as my parents were both not very religious, and the bit of religious practice I did have was from my own choosing. But in school, from my grandparents, people I was surrounded by in everyday life – religion was everywhere, and it did mark me deeply! What brought this to my consciousness just now was watching the Da Vinci Code (which, by the way, I thought was a great movie, which really did the book justice!).
I could write an entire post on this. Let’s see if I get to it…

The third point I really clicked with was the analogy of the box and going outside the lines. In fact, I just re-read part of an older post on my blog where I had written about the feeling of going “outside the lines” when my body isn’t “thin enough.”

Thanks for bringing all these concepts to my consciousness and putting them into words!
I hope you have a beautiful day and a good week!

much love,
Emily