Elouet- Thank you so much :). Hearing from you is so helpful :). It seems you and I can relate a lot. I believe in you and I know you can do this. It is wonderful that your mom will accept any way of eating you choose in the future :). Please feel free to email me any time, my email is nightshade_16@sbcglobal.net...I would love to be in touch. :)
Karenisraw- thank you so much for the link! I'm listening to it right now :)
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"Once we have reached our destiny we understand that it is different from the dearest wishes of the beginning, it is much deeper, broader, sometimes greater...either we understand or we sail on, and on, and on."
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04-29-2006 02:41 PM #32
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Yer Welcome! :) Meeting everyone would be really cool. I wonder if that event we were tlaking about over in the off topic area about meeting everyone in Cali is still being tlaked about or planned...Misslinda? That would be perfect! We were gonna wear t-shirts with our sn's on them! Lol. I will for sure be emailing you soon! Hey and if you can find a time when you see your mom just sitting down and shes not that busy let her know that you love her and that you are thankful that she loves you so much too. Or you can write her a letter and slip it onto her pillow case or somethin. She'll really love to hear that! :) It might ease her stressing a lil bit. When does school end for you? Would you be able to get a summer job? That would be really nice. Maybe you can get a job babysitting or at a store or something...it'll bring you some good extra monay! ;) I wish the best to ya! I know you will get through this you've gotta a huge raw family backing you up over here that believes in you!
Originally Posted by Lunar*Fey
p.s. I just had a thought. You know how they just want the best for you? Well, can't you just channel their helping energy into helping you in the right way? With intention, thought, meditation/prayer of course....hmmm...does that make any sense? You can meditate/pray everymoring. And you can meditate/pray that their hearts soften and open. Hmmm... :)*~"~For your body is that which you eat, and your spirit is that which you think. Eat nothing, therefore, which a stronger fire than the fire of life has killed.~*~* Dead Sea Scrolls, -Jesus
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EmeraldGlow, Meeting everyone would be awesome! haha and so would wearing shirts with our sns on them lol. And thats a lovely idea, I do tell my mom I love her a lot :)...sometimes we'll just be driving in the car (my mom, my baby sister, and I) and it will be all silent and I'll just say, "mom, I love you." or something similar. But i think its a nice idea to write her a note. It would also be a great idea to get a summer job, and I'm planning on it. I think I'll try talking to my guidence counselor in school to see if she can suggest anything.
And that idea you had to channel their helping energy! Wonderful idea!!! wow, I didn't even think of that at all. thank you so much :)"Once we have reached our destiny we understand that it is different from the dearest wishes of the beginning, it is much deeper, broader, sometimes greater...either we understand or we sail on, and on, and on."
~Xandria
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04-30-2006 12:09 AM #34
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Lunar*Fey -
Okay, thats really cool you tell your mom that already!
You gotta let us know how that channeling goes!*~"~For your body is that which you eat, and your spirit is that which you think. Eat nothing, therefore, which a stronger fire than the fire of life has killed.~*~* Dead Sea Scrolls, -Jesus
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04-30-2006 01:25 AM #35
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Hey Lunar*Fey
Excuse me if this post is rushed, but I'm at an internet cafe and have to go somewhere soon.
When I was 18 I was trying to be a fruitarian on just sweet fruit. I was convinced at the time that that was the optimal diet for humans. (If I had known about raw then...ie expanded my dietary options, I may have been more successful.) My mother told me I had an eating disorder. I wasn't trying to lose weight. I was just utterly convinced that this was the perfect diet.
I am 34 now. Only now am I starting to be successful on raw. I've been trying since I was 18.
Lunar*Fey, you are going to have to be so strong. Maybe when you are 26 and shining with light and not too skinny and radiating health they may twig that you're onto something. But at the moment they are so deluded as to what is healthy eating. You have to be a pioneer. I have always been different...dietarily, spiritually etc. But that is a good thing. You are so lucky to have the insight you do at such a young age. Have a look at www.rawguru.com 's website. He is very young...maybe 19ish. He is unwavering. He is successful at raw.
The monetary thing is a problem. Could you work part-time? I haven't had time to read the other posts. I don't know if that's been discussed. A worse case scenario is to eat raw during the day and a cooked vegan meal at night with salad. In a year or two you will be an adult (I am guessing you are around 16 or 17). Then it is up to you.
You are nourishing your body with raw food. You are beginning to come alive. I wish you all the luck in the world Lunar*Fey. Remember, you have to be strong, because nearly everyone around you is hypnotised...by the meat industry, the dairy industry, mainstream medicine or whatever. Most doctors look sick.
(I also have a step dad. He was really annoying.)
Be strong Lunar*Fey...and shine your light without fear.
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04-30-2006 05:17 AM #36
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Lunar*Fey,
Please know that what you do, or say, or eat will NOT make anyone (except you happy, all the people around you have choices, and their choices make them happy, not YOU.
I know they SAY that what you do will make them happy or not, but it isn't really TRUE.
Just like what your mom says or doesn't say, can't make you happy or unhappy.
You can like what she says, or be happy for HER, because she is more accepting of you sometimes, but your happiness does not come from outside sources, it comes from within, just like your mom's happiness comes from within her.
Even if you were the perfect child, the perfect teenager, and ate exactly what she wanted you to eat, she would find something else to pin on you, to make YOU her problem.
Because SHE is looking out side of her self for her own happiness, she will never find it.
So, be happy for yourself, eat what makes you happy, and do the best you can to communicate with love and kindness to your mom. be truthful to her, and let her know how you feel, and tell your therapist the truth, that you are not your eating disorder, and that you now know that it is a separate part of your thoughts, not who you are. etc.
also, don't try to make them understand what you are doing, let them read any books you have, but don't expect them to totally grasp the thought that raw food is good for anyone, they aren't ready to hear it yet.
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EmeraldGlow, I'm going to start trying it and I'll let you know how it goes :)
Sooboopa, thank you :). Although I only just turned 15, I'm going to try and get a part time job or babysit or something. Also, thank you for the link and the inspiring words. :)
Rapriestess, you always have such insightful, wonderful replies. thank you. ANd I know you are very right about her looking outside her self for her happiness. I think most people tend to take their emotions out on other people, not necessarily on purpose, but simply because it is hard for people to blame themselves or let themselves see that only they can make themselves happy. Most people seem to be so afraid of change, or anything novel...they don't want to accept things that are different. Maybe thats why I, being different, am such a concern in my family. Now they have something to blame my "strangeness" on, an eating disorder, and they pounce on the opportunity."Once we have reached our destiny we understand that it is different from the dearest wishes of the beginning, it is much deeper, broader, sometimes greater...either we understand or we sail on, and on, and on."
~Xandria
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04-30-2006 07:55 AM #38
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LunarFey,
You seem like a perfectly normal sweetie to me so I wouldn't worry too much about things. Some parent just don't see the world except through their own eyes and point of view. My dad has a genious IQ, was valedictorian of his class and an Iowa Merit Scholar and yet he thinks canned vegetables are good for you and eco-activism is extreme. He also thinks raw diet is extreme even though I have told him all the hazards of cooked and meat. I tell him about curing his diabetes with going raw and he doesn't listen. If it is mainstream then that is normal and o.k.. After all, it wouldn't be legal if it wasn't safe now would it?
k
:) :)Starting weight 238 lb's 12/23/05
Current weight 204.5 lb's
Goal 112
"The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies...they are
the trees, the plants and the seeds."
- Plato
Karen, a happy friend of God and a friend of earth and sustainability
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