...so, right now, I'm at a crossroad in life as far as career is concerned. For the past few years, I have worked a job without any promise of future benefit (literally). Though it has been beneficial in some areas, it has not served me financial meaning that is, overall, a position that extracts more than it offers and is no longer of service to a healthy whole life for me.
Thanks to guidance in Underearners Anonymous (with secondary help in Debtor's Anonymous) and guidance from my God, I have increased clarity on what I spend each month, the finances I need to sustain a healthy life; meaning that I now have a minimum dollar amount that I need to properly care for myself (including vacations, special dietary needs, etc); to accept anything lower would be self debting or a form of self abuse. Additionally, accepting work in an environment that is abusive (laborious work, underearning companies that have difficulty paying their employees raises, etc) would also be self debting for me. Even in the mist of economic challenge for lots of people and companies...there are still people and companies that are thriving.
In the past, this lack of certainty of direction in life would have been an excuse I'd use to abuse food. I'd gorge myself on processed sugars or unhealthy fats to calm the emotional roller coaster I would strap myself into. Thankful today for coping mechanisms of not sitting idol in the problem, but asking God for help...for direction; meditation prayer, journaling, reaching out to "safe" people...people who are affirming and encouragment of healthy, healing actions (not just talk about it; "do" about it). And especially thankful today for the willingness to go to a quiet place inside my heart...to ask God's help and direction; and to one day at a time take those actions.
Are you prone to eating instead of learning to cope...feel uncomfortable emotions?
Are you willing to try meditation, prayer, journaling and reaching out to others instead of using food to distract from life's challeges?
