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Apr
What’s Eating You…
Namaste and Salaam! Bonjour and Hola! Beautiful, Lovely People..I hope you had an Inspirational Earth day, this week!!! It was allllll sunshine and glorious blossoms everywhere, in my neighbourhood! Unbelievable! Om hare Om! So grateful for my safe,safe life, right now. We live incredible lives, here, in the West. Most of us, do, anyway. Im sorry for everyone who does not and it reminds me to be totally mindful of them each and every day. I want to HELP where I can, whenever I can.
For many, many different organizations.
This is why I am embarking on doing some SPEAKING engagements, on behalf of people I believe in, Organizations I want to use my BIG MOUTH to help raise awareness for.
Next week, I will be working with THE LOOKING GLASS FOUNDATION.
They are dedicated to creating an intensive treatment center for adolescents with eating disorders (ie: diseases like Anorexia Nervosa and Bulemia Nervosa). It will be the first center of its kind in Canada!
Yes, Lovies…DISEASES! Those who suffer are not ABLE to stop and it is not a phase or some kid trying to look like a celebrity. It destroys lives+families and it KILLS people. Truly. I, myself, have had manymany issues with disordered eating (remember??? at one point, I was even a size -1 !!!!!! SERIOUSLY! FOR A WHILE! NOT cool and NOT healthy. Even my BRAIN was crazymaking and I was a mess..depression, no proper seratonin or dopamine levels, etc.etc….and i was WORKING the entire time!!!! GOODGOD! )
But, for Lucky little moi- I am past that…back to being healthy and four sizes bigger! LOL!
I recovered. But I am A LUCKY ONE.
Adolescents are still in growing bodies! It is rough on their brain chemistry, brain tissue, internal essential organs, the works!
I insist that you explore and look at their website: www.lookingglassbc.com and you will be so moved by how much wonderful work these loving,lovely people are doing, and what they are hoping to do. Highest Blessings to them!
I am honored and so happy to tell you that, one week from today (so, thats NEXT FRIDAY, April 30,2010!) I will be their Special Guest at their Annual Fundraiser!
It will be at Rocky Mountaineer Station (101-369 Terminal Avenue, Vancouver)
Dinner is at 7:30 but I dont know what they are making. LOL!
I know all of us are trying to live “better” and “healthier” lives….almost everyone I know is on a “diet” and even put their kids on diets!
What are we saying? What messages are we sending, without even thinking or realizing it? I have my own guilt and hope I neverever sent some kid any idea to be skinnier, or something. :(
All I can do, now, is share my own stories and try and set a good example. And thats all we can each do, everyday. And get behind organizations like this one. *gush*
Have a woderful, happy, wholesome, ad honest weekend…do some pranayama breathing and move your body around. Call your mama (and, Mommyji, if you are reading my blog here, I will be calling you on Sunday! Yay!) and try to take a moment to yourself and just sit,quietly. Really. For one or two minutes. Yeah…just sit there. LOL! It is good to take a time-out JUST FOR YOU!!!!!
Do your best everyday. I will too. In good faith with an open heart, know I am eternally grateful, to and for, every one of you. WORD!
Go be healthy and happy.
With Love and True Devotion,
Om Nama Shivaya..
Love,
Biffy
xoxo
April 25th, 2010 at 11:36 AM
Wow that is amazing you are getting involved like that! In 2001 (I think I was 15), I had an eating disorder and depression too. It was a tough time and it took me years to recover from it. I am now healthier, although still a “picky” eater, eating health food all the time hehe.. But that’s ok. I’m back to a normal weight. I’m a size three or four now I think.. Not sure as some clothes fit funny lol! I’m still working on getting moar MUSCLE!! Rawr!! :)
April 25th, 2010 at 1:45 PM
Thank you Bif for doing such a wonderful job raising awareness for individuals who suffer from eating disorders. GOOD ON YOU GIRL!! Good luck next Friday….wish I could be there!! :)
April 25th, 2010 at 4:09 PM
people with big mouths were born to use them – it’s their gift… i can say this because you know what i mean and the tone of my voice when i say it :) I am so very happy you have found people that need your gift and that you are willing to share it – many of us are too shy or still too self absorbed to think about reaching out and giving back in our own ways… you remind me of this responsibiity. thank you.
April 26th, 2010 at 8:59 PM
Thank you Bif for doing such a wonderful job raising awareness for individuals who suffer from eating disorders. GOOD ON YOU GIRL!! Good luck next Friday….wish I could be there!! :)
April 27th, 2010 at 9:43 AM
Wow that is amazing you are getting involved like that! In 2001 (I think I was 15), I had an eating disorder and depression too. It was a tough time and it took me years to recover from it. I am now healthier, although still a “picky” eater, eating health food all the time hehe.. But that’s ok. I’m back to a normal weight. I’m a size three or four now I think.. Not sure as some clothes fit funny lol! I’m still working on getting moar MUSCLE!! Rawr!! :)
April 27th, 2010 at 12:22 PM
people with big mouths were born to use them – it’s their gift… i can say this because you know what i mean and the tone of my voice when i say it :) I am so very happy you have found people that need your gift and that you are willing to share it – many of us are too shy or still too self absorbed to think about reaching out and giving back in our own ways… you remind me of this responsibiity. thank you.
April 27th, 2010 at 4:09 PM
Thank you Bif for doing such a wonderful job raising awareness for individuals who suffer from eating disorders. GOOD ON YOU GIRL!! Good luck next Friday….wish I could be there!! :)
April 27th, 2010 at 9:21 PM
Thank you Bif for doing such a wonderful job raising awareness for individuals who suffer from eating disorders. GOOD ON YOU GIRL!! Good luck next Friday….wish I could be there!! :)
April 28th, 2010 at 10:44 AM
I suffered with anorexia through most of my adult life. It is not just a disease for the young. When I was in my teens I was athletic, and “chunky”, not at all the lithe beauty my parents wanted. They made fun of how much I could eat, called my Little Lotta and Baby Huey, both comics of the time that featured very very large persons. I finally took charge of the one thing that I had full control over, my body and what I put into it, which became very little. In my 30’s I finally found a wonderful therapist in Victoria, through her gentle guidance I was able to cherish my life, and I started to blossom into a confident and happy person.
This is a horrible disease, it kills body and soul. It is a lonely place to live, I shall be visiting the Looking Glass and seeing if there is any assistance that I might lend to them.