For several weeks now I've been following a blog on Amazon.com written by Frances Kuffel, author of Passing for Thin. Amazon started this cool thing of giving people who buy books by authors who write blogs there a chance to read and follow the blogs on their personalized main page. But a wonderful unexpected thing is happening. Not only can I read about Frances and her journey in not-relapsing this time and working through her life, but a community is forming around the blog of others who are doing the same. I'm not alone!
There is something very therapeutic and healing about posting in the anonymity of the blog rather than talking to people in a WW meeting, thought I certainly do that, too. I'm good with words, I like the chance to sit and ponder and let my fingers just type and see what happens, but with a chance to hit "delete" when something comes out wrong and start over. That's not possible when I'm blabbing, and I sometimes (often?) talk too much about myself and don't listen as much as I should.
But I decided it's time for me to have a blog of my own – not necessarily for anyone else, though I would welcome the company on the way. I'm writing for myself, to journal in bits and pieces as I go along and see progress and steps that are hard to see when I'm living in the middle of it.
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