Sarah,

Excellent interview! Your five-steps apply to any addiction. It's a great formula for freedom and peace as self love turns all our relationships. So glad the media is picking up your story. Thanks for your work within yourself and in the world.

Trish~~

Dear Sarah,

Just to stir the discussion a bit:

I do agree with Trish that this is a great formula to any addiction.

It is the way I managed to stop smoking and not gain more than 10 pounds.

I just told myself that that would be my limit of self-pity :)

But I must say that i have developed other addictions, like totally emerge myself into a passion (the internet, the labyrinth a.o.). It is now so that I encounter the paradox between an addiction and a passion, especially with regard to living ones purpose, the last item on your list.

I would like to know more about it.

To me it will always be a delicate thing to find balance in this I guess. And moreover, every ones balance is different.

In the end I do believe that experiencing it, is the only way to find out what is suitable to someone in the end.

Love, from the heartphone

Mieke

Mieke,

Could it be that an addiction is a downward spiral that goes nowhere creating stagnation and blocks? And could a passion be an upward spiral that lifts all the parts of oneself, others and the environment all around? In other words an addiction is negative and a passion is positive?
Maybe we need a new word for that which is in the balanced middle since balance is a tension dance between the two opposites.

Love your labyrinth focus!! Maybe thats' the word: "focus" or "focal point" in our lives.

What do you think?

Love,

Trish~~

Hello Trish,

Well that is indeed a very good word "focus". Or "focal point".

Or as Max Simon has described in his threads here on IB: be "centred".

The labyrinth is a nice symbol and combined with Yoga exercise gives me the balance that is needed for this :).

I do not believe that a downward spiral necessarily would create stagnation and blocks, if one allows it in oneself in the same way as one allows the upward spiral. That is what I would call experience.

It might even catapult one at a certain moment towards a higher spiral. A kind of quantum jump.

But that is another story altogether and is something I read in Harb's book "Self Designed Universe".

Well something to discuss perhaps another time.

I will be away for about a week. Going on a painting course, never painted before but perhaps, who knows, may be able to paint a labyrinth :)

Love to you and all the best,

Mieke

This is a beautiful work, a very beautiful message.

Sarah, you are a beauty! You have a talent to spread positive-modeling! I am from the-ones who agree about the urgent need to shape our life out of the exaggerated influences of the medias.

A special admiration to all ladies on this post.

dear Sarah,
Thank you, thank you!
Your voice is very much needed to shed light on the world of e.d.'s and bring hope and guidance to girls (and yes - boys in growing numbers are struggling with eating disorders).

I applaud your work in eradicating this illness, which can be a death sentence, and ruins years when teenager girls could be engaged with life, with interests, and not crippled from negative self-images and inner talk.

Keep sharing from your knowledge and research, and from your experience, which girls will listen to, for you have found the true secret(s) for overcoming the illness, and stepping into the fullness of Life.

Love,
~ Kate

dear Mieke,
enjoy your week's course.
I send you my love,
~ Kate

thanks Trish and Jean-Francois,
I love your sharing too!

Mieke #4:

Thanks for the feedback! Yes! A free flowing circuit would be an upward and downward spiral with the focal point at centre! I see it as two inverted triangles...an X. Looking down on the upper V there is space and a center point -- a portal? -- a vortex? Same is true of the inverted V. Years ago I heard that X represents the cross over point of heaven and earth. Does that mean two different realities? Does that mean parallel universes?

The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols & Sacred Objects: Labyrinth: "...represented the soul's journey into the center of the uterine underworld and its return toward rebirth."

A week long painting course sounds divine! Is there a way we can share the images that are in focus for us here on this blog? Could we share this feminine language that rises up from the unconscious?

I'd love to see your line drawing of a labyrinth or anything you'd like to share. I'll send you an email as well. Enjoy your week!

Kate #7: Sweet! Thanks.

Trish~~