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In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ,
according to the purpose of his will,
- Ephesians 1:5
Since the early days of our church we have felt the call of God to regularly emphasize the care of orphans to our congregation. We count it a privilege to have many in our church body who have taken up the call to adopt, foster, sponsor and support the underprivileged orphans of our region and around the world.
As an effort to aid more families through their journey of orphan care, below we have created a list of organizations, websites and resources to help give you some actionable steps toward supporting orphans in a way that God may be calling you. If you have additional questions, feel free to email email@example.com
Pastor Josh's 2018 Orphan Sunday sermon
Foreign Adoption:
Hope International - https://www.hopeinternational.org
Domestic(Local) Adoption Agencies:
Hanna's Hope - https://www.hannahs-hope.org
Agape Means Love - http://agapemeanslove.org/adoption-and-foster-care/
Life Choices - https://lifechoicesmemphis.org
"Orphanology" by Tony Merida - http://a.co/d/bCUQcjQ
"Adopted for Life" by Russell Moore - http://a.co/d/ikELIRx
In the state of Mississippi alone there are over 5,000 children in the foster care system. Over 200 of those live in Desoto, Tate & Marshall counties.
This page contains information about becoming a Foster/Adoptive Parent in the state of Mississippi:
Rescue 100 is committed to recruiting, training and supporting foster families who provide loving homes for children in the Mississippi foster care system. There is a Rescue 100 Orientation Session coming up at Longview Point Church on Tuesday, December 11, 2018 — 6-7 p.m.
The Forgotten Podcast - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-forgotten-podcast/id1106738239?mt=2
Child sponsorship is a powerful way to make a difference in the lives of children in other countries who might never have the opportunities we have in the United States. There are many Christian-based companies that fund the education and well-being of these children and provide easy ways for sponsor families to interact with and pray for them.
Lifesong - https://www.lifesongchildsponsorship.org/about/overview/
Forgotten Children Ministries, the organization in Honduras that Redeemer members Bill & Jerri Edge work with on a yearly basis - http://www.fcmhonduras.org/sponsor-a-child
We encourage everyone to find ways to support those who Adopt, Foster & Sponsor. Here are a few opportunities within our church body to do so.
Chase & Katelyn Hairston Adoption Fundraiser (Orders end November 30, 2018): https://adopthope.bigcartel.com
Redeemer Adoption Fund - Select "Adoption Fund" on our giving page.


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Lace Shorts-Bar III via Macy's
Faux Leather Jacket & Flats-Target
So if you can't tell by the massive photo overload, I was having such an amazing time hanging out on the windy, chilly rocks by the bay and walking along the still frosty, wooden trail in my hometown over Christmas vacation. Days that look this gorgeous and sunny in the winter are very far and few between in the Pacific Northwest, especially along the coast.
My hometown is a little place 20 mins from the Pacific Ocean, about two hours from Seattle, where I now live. Growing up I despised living there, especially in High School...but as I get older, I can see why people call that little ol' town home (although I couldn't see myself living there ever again) and can appreciate all the beauty that it is, especially on glorious days like those photoed above.
Ohhh and about the outfit....I am totally loving all the textures going on here. What is better than loosely sewn comfy cable knit, faux leather and lace all paired together?! Not much, I tell ya! From the moment I purchased that berry colored sweater, I can't seem to get enough of it. Pairing it with skirts, flares...everything. Love love love.
Hope you all had a wonderful week and are getting ready to ring in the New Year!
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Me and 80+ blog buddies got together to bring you 80+ DIY Halloween costumes, including my Frozen Anna and Kristoff! I'm teaming up with Jamie Dorobek and her handmade Halloween costume site, Really Awesome Costumes to bring y'all tons of easy ideas to craft up DIY Halloween costumes for everyone including your pets, family costumes, and even a trunk or treat idea! Along with my Frozen Anna Dress Tutorial, I'm sharing 88+ more really awesome handmade costume ideas from talented bloggers everywhere!
After the fun of Teddy's Baby Harry Potter Photoshoot Debra from Joyous Moments Photography and Housewife Eclectic and I cannot stop taking pictures of our babies dressed up. This month I present you Baby Anna and Kristoff from of course Frozen staring Teddy as Kristoff and Hailey as Anna.
I know we're kinda crazy but I know a lot of you guys are too because when Debra put a teaser picture up from photo day people went crazy. So not only do you get silly cute pictures but I'm also sharing how you can make your own Anna costume! You can use this tutorial to make a baby version like I did or and older child the only difference more fabric! And don't fret, I will be sharing how to make your own Kristoff costume next week so you too can have the pair!
Frozen Baby Anna Costume Tutorial
What You Need
- Black Fabric (bodice)
- Pale blue Fabric (sleeves)
- Dark Blue Fabric (skirt)
- 1/8 inch elastic
- Gold Rick Rack
- Pink Iron-on Vinyl
- Green Iron-on Vinyl
- Zipper or buttons (optional)
What To Do
- Make yourself a bodice pattern by tracing around a loose fitting shirt. Make sure to add a cup inches at the shoulders (baby size I added 2 inches you'll want more for larger sizes since this will determine how gathered it is. Make the sweetheart pattern piece by drawing a curve on your bodice piece so it's the write shape.
- Cut out your pattern pieces for the top on the fold. You want 2 pieces (one will be the front the other will be the back). For the black also cutting on the fold you need two pieces. The skirt piece is just a big triangle. You'll want it the length of your desired skirt plus 1-2 inches for seam allowances and hemming by 44 inches for a baby (for an elementary kid I'd do 44 or if you want it really full do 88 inches). Cut the skirt piece so that you have a front and back
- Sew the black pieces together along the top and bottom leaving the short edges open. Snip to the sewing line and turn right side out. Iron.
- Sew the bodice pieces right sides together at the shoulders.
- Finish the neck and sleeve edges. I did this with a rolled hem on my serger you can also just do a narrow hem.
- Next sew in 1/8 inch elastic around the neck and the arms. Cut your elastic to what wide you want your neck (or arm holes) then zig zag the elastic in place about 1/2 an inch from the edge using a zig zag stitch and stretching the elastic as you go.
- Gather the top edge of the skirt.
- Pin the skirt and bodice right sides together and sew.
- Next pin the black piece in place and lay the gold rick rack on and sew the gold rick rack on. This will attach the rick rack while also attaching the black piece.
- Make your "applique" embellishments out of iron on vinyl. I just cut one design of pink and one of green on my Cricut and substituted the parts I wanted of the right color. And iron into place. If you're new to iron-on vinyl it's my favorite and here's a great how to post about it.
- With right sides together sew down the underarm and side seams.
- Hem the skirt.
- If your waist is big enough you should be able to slip this over the your Anna's head. So if you want make a point to make sure it's big enough. If you want a more fitted look you can cut down the center back of the dress (I know it's scary) and insert a zipper. This is what I did. You'll want to cut from the neck line to a few inches into the skirt.
Awww aren't they the cutest ever!!!? Don't forget to check back in next week for the Kristoff tutorial. I'm hoping Debra and I can keep up the fun. We already know what we're going to do for November, I can't wait to share it with you!
And now it's time for tons more DIY Halloween costume inspiration! Join in on the BLOG HOP! Click on the links below each collage to get the detailed instructions about how to make the costume pictured, just like mine above. Don't forget to follow the Handamde Halloween Costumes Pinterest Board for even more DIY costume greatness! 1. Handmade Baby Hamburger Costume 2. DIY Baby Game Boy Costume 3. DIY Minecraft Steve Costume 4. Football Brothers Halloween Costumes with DIY Pads and Onesie 5. Star Trek Halloween Costume for Kids 6. A Bee and Her Keeper 7. No Sew Magician Costume 8. Flint Lockwood Costume 9. Pinocchio 10. Marty McFly 11. Princess Wedding Dress Costume 12. Handmade Lalaloopsy Doll Costume 13. Homemade Toothless Costume 14. DIY Mermaid For Less Than $20 (No-Sew Option) 15. Easy Tinker Bell Costume 16. Mario and Luigi Go Kart Costumes 17. Dog The Bounty Hunter and Beth 18. Family Monsters University Costumes 19. Scooby Doo family costumes 20. DIY Storm Cloud Costume 21. Cheap and Easy DIY Spider Costume 22. Easy Tin Man Costume 23. No Sew Bee Costume 24. Planet Halloween Costumes 25. DIY Cheshire Cat Costume 26. DIY Instagram Board 27. Elsa crown 28. Dog Collar Ruffles 29. DIY Pineapple Baby Costume 30. DIY Lego Movie Costume 31. Weeping Angel Costume 32. Disney Planes Costume: Dipper 33. Easy Pirate Costume 34. Easy Costume Idea – Renaissance Girl 35. 10 Minute Homemade Jellyfish Costume 36. DIY Cat Costume 37. Lucy And Ricky Costumes 38. Easy Frozen Costumes (Carrisa!!) 39. Easy Greek Goddess Costume 40. DIY Family Willy Wonka Costumes 41. DIY No Sew Maleficent Costume 42. No Sew Pineapple Halloween Costume 43. Graveyard Bean Bag Toss: Trunk or Treat Car Costume 44. DIY Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Costumes 45. DIY Raccoon Costume with Printable Mask 46. Easy WildStyle Lego Movie Costume 47. Simple Hello Kitty Costume 48. No Sew Minnie Mouse Costume 49. DIY Inspector Gadget and Penny Costumes 50. DIY Frozen Elsa Dress Baby Edition 51. Fairy Princess Dog Costume 52. DIY Hashtag Halloween Costume 53. Toddler or Baby Egg Costume 54. Easy No Sew Olaf Costume 55. DIY Baymax Costume 56. DIY Tooth Fairy Costume 57. Baby Short Stack Pancake Costume 58. Elephant and Piggie Halloween Costumes 59. Instagram Halloween Costume 60. Peter Pan & Mr. Smee Halloween Costume 61. Wildstyle Costume from the Lego Movie 62. Fred and Wilma Couples Costume 63. Viking Family Costumes 64. DIY Cruella de Vil Costume for a child 65. Disney Frozen Olaf Halloween Treat Bucket 66. How to Make a Minecraft Steve Head 67. DIY Harry Potter Costume 68. DIY Duck Dynasty Costumes 69. No Sew Cupcake Baker Halloween Costume 70. DIY Skunk Mask 71. Ghostbusters Proton Pack DIY 72. Frozen Anna Costume Tutorial 73. Candy Corn Costume 74. Paw Patrol Halloween Costume 75. No Sew Toothless Dragon Costume 76. DIY Robot Costume 77. Wonder Woman Costume 78. Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Costume 79. Thrifted Gentleman Spy DIY Halloween Costume 80. DIY Boy Garden Gnome Costume 81. Group Costume: Bob Ross, Happy Tree, & Squirrel 82. DIY Blues Brothers Costumes 83. Snow White Costume 84. Peacock Princess Costume 85. Scarecrow Costume 86. Easy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Costume 87. Handmade Teddy Bear Costume 88. Princess Elsa and the Spy Kid 89. DIY Baby Koala costume
What handmade costume ideas did you love the most?! Be sure to click over to get the costume instructions, pin the costume, and let them know you love it! Also, follow the Handmade Halloween Costume board on Pinterest! Follow Jamie Dorobek {C.R.A.F.T.}'s board "Handmade Halloween Costumes" on Pinterest.
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Holiday Brings Business
For Irish men at heart, like Nate Sein, beer is just part of the Irish tradition.
"America does [St. Patrick's Day] in a much more grand way," Nate Stein said.
McNally's expects to rake in the big bucks from the St. Patrick's day celebration.
"This only happens one day a year. Yeah, we'll probably do five to six times the business we normally do," Townsend said.
So, for guys like Stein, today's wild festivities do make sense.
"I like the fact that they make it up to be a big deal," Stein explained.
St. Patrick's Day is a big drinking holiday and police do want to remind everybody to not drink and drive tonight and to find designated drivers.
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We are super curious to learn more about what is important to you as cat parents. Our Curious Cat Surveys have helped us to know what you want to learn about and just as important what you don't want to read about. The past surveys have had great results thanks to you and this year, we are giving away $50 gift cards to two participants in appreciation for the time you take to complete the survey. There are more details at the end of the survey and a place for you to enter your email address if you choose to enter the giveaway.
If you would like to try Hill's Ideal Balance All Natural treats for your cat or dog, we have the perfect opportunity for you. Twenty friends of The Tiniest Tiger will win a gift package of three treats sent directly to you from Hill's Pet Nutrition.
A few years ago when we were living in a loft apartment waiting for the house renovations to be completed, a tornado brushed by us and took the roof over our kitchen with it. I remember telling Paul, "It's raining so hard it sounds like it's raining inside." And he said, "That's because it is!" With Gracey already tucked safely in the bedroom, I bolted out into the kitchen with rain pouring down on me and lightning flashing everywhere. I grabbed Gracey's food and my laptop and dashed back into the living room. Later, Paul teased me by asking what if he wanted a snack. I told him he was on his own and could fend for himself. We both knew the pecking order; Gracey first.
Over the last three weeks, we have spent some time reflecting on Gracey's life with us and I couldn't help but reminisce about the beginning of our The Tiniest Tiger community that started out on our facebook page. In those first days we talked a lot about the differences and similarities between Gracey and her big cat cousins. One of our first photo albums on Facebook was Compare and Contrast. Do you remember this post?
This beautiful tiger lives at the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Notice the stains on her pink nose.
Notice my stains on my pink nose?
Dogtime Media's Pettie Awards recognize the best among pet bloggers each year. Our The Tiniest Tiger's Conservation Cub Club won the Pettie for Best Blog Post last year for Cat Obituary Farewell Eastern Cougar. We were so proud to win for this post because our mission is to encourage you to care for all cats big and small. We have been nominated in 2010, 2011 and won Best Blog Post in 2012. I hope you will help us in 2013 too!
Nominations for the 2013 Petties are now open! Voting not only helps us win a Pettie, but you can help your favorite shelter or rescue group win $10,000 in the 2012 Pre-Petties $10,000 Donation Contest
Nominating is super easy! Just visit the Petties Nominations Center once a day between now and June 28, and nominate The Tiniest Tiger's Conservation Cub Club for Best Cat Blog. Nominate your favorite shelter or rescue group at the same time (must be a non-profit 501c3). I am also fond of the post Since You've Been Gone Our Message to Gracey. This post is extra special to many of us as we talk about the healing process we all must go through when we suffer the loss of our loved ones. I would love to be nominated for Best Blog Post too!
Starting today, Valentine's Day, Iams will be on the hunt for real stories from people that share their lives with a cat and or a dog. The folks at Iams want to learn about the unique bond you share with your cat. And, this is super exciting, the winning family will star in Iams next national advertisement!
I told you it was super exciting!
The Keep Love Strong advertising campaign that began last November features heart-warming ads inspired by real stories. The campaign has been so well received that Iams created this contest to find the very best Love Tails about the special connections people share with their animals. These commercials really show the deep connection and the importance of the human animal bond. I like them all but this is one of my favorites.
Ann Curry, NBC News correspondent asked herself, after the tragic massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, what
she could do. And she thought performing 26 acts of kindness, one act for each child and teacher who lost their life that day, would be a small gesture to honor the victims.
Ann then invited everyone to join her by sharing the idea on social media. Within a few days the hashtag "#26acts" was trending on Twitter and a "26 Acts of Kindness" Facebook page began to grow. People began to tweet Curry with photos and descriptions of their acts of kindness such as paying for parking meters, tolls and leaving larger than usual tips.
Curry wrote on the NBC News website that the movement is a way to "help heal us all."
Ksenia – Grade: 8 – Eighth Grade – Brooklyn, NY
Those furry paws
And friendly face
Are one in a million
That meow he does
When he wants food
Those eyes he gives
So kind and sweet
When I look at him
My heart beats faster
When he sleeps near me
He warms me up
He greets me from school
He is my cat
And no one can replace that
This poem is just one of the many wonderful poems created by children for the Pets Add Life 5th Annual Children's Poetry Contest. The Pets Add Life (PAL) campaign is designed to demonstrate the joys and benefits of pet ownership, thus driving increased adoption of pets and responsible ownership of pets. PAL is produced by the American Pet Products Association (APPA). The Pets Add Life Children's Poetry Contest helps to inspire the next generation to express their love and appreciation as pet lovers.
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The Gun World
From space, Besrodia II looks little different than any other terraformed world. With marginal surface water and large polar ice caps, the planet is largely cold and dry. Most of the water is locked in deep aquifers in the temperate and polar regions. Besrodia II has a single moon, Kremmel, which long ago entered a tide locked orbit.
Heavy Metal
Besrodia's economy is heavy industry with a focus on manufacturing. Unlike other industrial worlds that build their economies around vehicles, starships, or other large long term goods, Besrodia is the largest concentration of gun makers in human space. The eight largest gun manufacturers have their home offices on planet, as well as dozens of production facilities. The freighters that move off planet are loaded down with rifles, pistols, machine guns and almost any other projectile weapon that a man can carry with two hands. Energy weapons are also produced but not near the level of more known and reliable and fixable bullet type guns.
A recent poll determined that out of all the guns in use be armies and garrisons across the breadth of human space, and personal owned weapons, that one out of four guns were manufactured on Besrodia. This number becomes more significant as the number of guns in existance and the number of human colonized worlds increases. With skirmishes common, business is always good for the Besrodian gunsmiths.
A Word on Quality
Not to be spending time advertising for the planetside manufacturers, the majority of guns shipped from Besrodia are generally of good quality or better. The firms that operate there are the leaders in the personal armament field of industry, and the companies and factories that make knock off or generic weapons are not found there. Such operations usually imitate weapons manufactured on Besrodia II and are well away from curious eyes.
The Plot Hook
Copyright Infringement - An offworld company has started producing knock-offs of a new gun just entering production. The mercenary PCs are hired to investigate the source of the fraudulent weapons. The hiring company wants to know where the guns are being made, and really how the imitators got the secret plans for the new weapon when the primary factory is still in the pre-production stages of setting up. After determining this information, the PCs are ordered to shut the operation down. This could be a calm as delivering a cease and decist order to planting satchel charges and other special forces stuff.
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Blackout report card: Some pass, others fail
Last Thursday's power outage caught the majority of IT users in the northeastern United States and some parts of Canada by surprise, but according to experts, post-September 11 disaster recovery planning seems to have paid off for some users, while others were not so fortunate.
The terrorist attacks of September 11 forced all in the storage industry to rethink how they plan for disaster at individual data centers. But now that last week's blackout in the Northeast has shown that regional disasters are also a threat, it may be time to head back to the drawing board.
Last Thursday's power outage caught the majority of IT users in the northeastern United States and some parts of Canada by surprise, but according to experts, post-September 11 disaster recovery planning seems to have paid off for some users.
SearchStorage.com SAN expert Christopher Poelker -- who is also a storage architect for Hitachi Data Systems Ltd. and author of the newly released Storage Area Networks for Dummies -- said he is not aware of any problems among his user base as a result of the blackout.
"All of our enterprise clients test this kind of thing on a regular basis. We help our customers plan for this sort of thing by putting together testing procedures for data center power outages," Poelker said.
Poelker's users conduct periodic tests in which they transition from utility power to battery backup, an uninterruptible power source or building generator.
"As far as I've heard, it's all working so far. Our engineers are calling customers to see if we can be of assistance, but so far, everyone is OK," he said.
A different picture emerged from disaster recovery provider SunGard Availability Services, Wayne, Pa. The company said 62 of its customers, including "many large financial services institutions," are recovering in eight of SunGard's 38 North American locations, including New York, Philadelphia, Toronto and Chicago. More than 100 additional customers have put SunGard on alert, just in case.
The company issued a statement saying the blackout is responsible for "the largest number of declarations supported by SunGard at one time, other than following 9/11."
SearchStorage.com polled its readers and asked users affected by the power outage how much interruption in data availability they experienced. The results suggest that Poelker and Sungard are both reporting accurately on different parts of the business community.
Fifty-five percent of respondents said they had no downtime, and their disaster recovery strategies worked as they were supposed to. Eleven percent experienced minor interruptions as they switched over to backup power, and another 11% experienced disruption in the availability of minor systems. But 22% said they had major disruptions of critical systems.
Experts point to smaller organizations as the biggest problem areas. Financial institutions and large corporations have traditionally been prepared for disaster, but according to Dianne McAdam, a senior analyst for the Nashua, N.H.-based Data Mobility Group Inc., smaller IT shops have their work cut out for them.
"The events of 9/11 have caused [large companies] to possibly fine-tune their [disaster recovery] plans or more actively test their plans. The small-to-medium market is a different story," she said.
McAdam cited a recent survey from Imation Corp., in which 202 business owners, office managers and IT directors from companies with 100 or fewer employees were asked about their disaster recovery plans.
According to the survey, one in three small and medium-sized businesses is operating without a formal disaster recovery strategy in place. Sixty-four percent of companies admit that their data backup and disaster recovery plans have significant vulnerabilities.
"I firmly believe that small companies continue to remain very exposed to potential data loss," said Charlie Frey, president of QuickSAN Corp., a Rochester, N.Y., company that specializes in disaster recover for small-to-medium-sized businesses.
Frey said most medium-sized companies have good tape backup strategies in place that include off-site storage. However, small companies, those with less than five servers, continue to have a hit-or-miss strategy, one that may involve tape or CD-ROM backups.
According to Daniel Morreale, chief information officer for the North Bronx Healthcare Network (NBHN), which comprises the North Central Bronx Hospital and Jacobi Medical Center, said his systems faired very well during the blackout, but putting the disaster recovery plan to the test has helped to identify several things the NBHN can do better.
He said that additional connectivity between his two hospitals would have helped to ensure uptime.
"Our system had minimal impact and stayed up via [uninterruptible power source] and emergency generators. One file server [containing shared user files] failed with data corruption but was restored from backup," Morreale said. "Nothing tests plans like the real thing."
Shoddy disaster recovery planning can also cost smaller firms customers. Peter Cantone is vice president of strategic business development for Einsteins Mobile Upfitters, a value added reseller of commercial aftermarket products for working cargo vans and pickup trucks. He said his company's plans to launch a new Web site have been put on hold because of data loss during the blackout.
Cantone had reservations when signing with a small Web developer that had no concrete backup plans in case of a power outage. "[It] was a main concern that was never really addressed until it actually occurred. My concerns were validated," he said.
Cantone said he will be looking into a Tier 1 Web hosting provider that will include redundant backup servers that are located in different regions throughout the United States.
"The more I read about the upcoming energy crisis, the more it makes sense for us to make sure we're hosted by a large Web hosting company with multiple backup plans," he said.
Jon William Toigo, author of Disaster Recovery Planning, 2nd Edition and president of Toigo Partners International, an independent storage consulting firm, hopes that last week's blackout will improve disaster planning strategies.
"I would hope that this event underscores for people the impact of regional outages," he said. Toigo also said the event points to shortcomings of recent, fuzzy SEC rulings that he said don't require primary and secondary disaster recovery sites to be far enough away from each other. "Today illustrates that just putting them across the river in Jersey was not adequate," he said.
"It's an information economy there [in New York], and it runs on electricity."
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Two years ago, I was at a leadership training event in California.
It was called SOEL. That is an acronym for School of Embodied Leadership, led by world class martial artist Richard Strozzi-Heckler.
Richard is the author of many excellent books, but the most famous is "In Search of the Warrior Spirit," where he spends an extended period of time teaching mindfulness to a Special Forces A-Team. A great read.
When I had the pleasure of training Aikido with Richard and his tribe at his dojo, he began every class the same way, with a question. The question was: "For the sake of what are you here?" It was a poignant question.
If you didn't understand what Richard was getting at, he really wanted to ask you, "Why are you here?" Why were you giving him this time? Why were you investing in yourself for this training? What are you getting from purchasing this time?
I had let this thought process go for a very long while. But when I was putting together the new format at the Osseo Gun Club classes, it suddenly returned to me. So at every class I am now going to ask you. For the sake of what are you here? Why are you giving me this time to help you train? What are you seeking to defend?
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Christian PiattKeymasterApril 16, 2015 at 10:50 amPost count: 3#11560 |
How interesting that I'm working on another month project, on healing now, while I'm also learning to manage my own newly diagnosed seizures. The old phrase "Physician, heal thyself" rings often in my head.
I definitely feel like I'm having to focus more on myself this month than I expected, but of course, if I'm not well myself, how do I expect to help anyone else heal?
I'm excited to have Slim Moon as my mentor this month. Check him out on the mentor page if you don't know him yet. He's got a pretty amazing story, from starting a record label and hitting the road with Nirvana back in the day, to landing in seminary to become a Unitarian Universalist minister today.
Though I'm not as active in the community as a healer these days, I am working with a friend of mine who I've mentioned before (I want to keep his identity confidential) to get back off the street where he's been living, and to get back into recovery, as he nearly died recently from liver failure.
Come to think of it, maybe working with him and on myself is moire than a month's work in itself.
It reminds me of the old parable about a man walking along the beach with tens of thousands of starfish washed up on the shore. He's slowly picking up one at a time and placing them carefully back in the ocean.
Another guy comes along, shaking his head. "Look at all of these creatures, all around you," he says. "how can what you're doing really matter at all? You can't save them all."
The man turned to him with a starfish in his hand, "it matters to this one," he says and sets it down in the water.
How do you experience, or seek, healing in your own life? How do you offer healing to others? What do you think of when you consider Jesus' invitation/challenge when he says we will do even greater things than he did?
Looking forward to hearing from my fellow healers.
Peace and health,
GabyParticipantJune 23, 2015 at 9:21 amPost count: 1#11585 |
Hi Christian,
I recently came across your site because I am on a quest to get to know Jesus and I've been researching what it means to be a follower of his. I don't consider myself a Christian because my mind is resistant to the idea that Christ is God, that what he did really atones for my sins, that his existence is necessary at all. But in the face of a growing compassion that I'm feeling, I have been more and more attracted to his teachings and way of life.
Anyway, I wanted to know how this is going for you. And particularly how this month went for you, because I've always considered Jesus' ability to heal as a magical sort of thing. I just don't see a regular person being able to bring anyone back from the dead or speak that a person is cured from afar and it being so. For reasons like these, I have difficulty with BELIEVING in Christ's divinity. But I'm still curious about what you gained from this month.
If you could share your experience in shifting from a non-believer to a believer, that would be cool too. If you had that experience at all.
Thanks 🙂
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A woman who fell up to 50 metres down a cliff in the Murphy's Creek area has been airlifted to hospital by the Surat Basin Gas Industry Aeromedical Service.
The 37 year old was believed to be walking along the cliff when she slipped and fell some time before 2.30pm this afternoon.
The Surat Basin Gas Industry Aeromedical Service helicopter operated by CareFlight was tasked to her aid, landing at a riverbed at the base of the cliff.
CareFlight's Critical Care Doctor and Flight Intensive Care Paramedic treated the woman for spinal and arm injuries.
She also sustained minor cuts and abrasions.
She was loaded on-board the rescue helicopter and airlifted to Toowoomba Base Hospital.
She travelled in a stable condition.
The Surat Basin Gas Industry Aeromedical Service began flying in April 2011, to minimise impacts on community medical services in Queensland's far south west.
The Service donates the aircraft to the community for emergencies such as these and airlifted nearly 150 seriously ill or injured residents in that time.


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How to sew a Knot Dress pattern for girls: I've got a great free Knot Dress pattern to share with you today! This style of dress is super simple to sew since there are no zippers or buttons!
The best part is, you can mix and match your fabrics to look just like Matilda Jane Knot Dress. (And what little girl does not love a frilly Matilda Jane dress? – Plus, you get to say, I made that dress!!!)
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Making a dress for my daughter to wear on Valentine's Day has been on my to-do list. I wanted it to be Valentine-ish, but not "scream" Valentine's Day. That way, she could wear the dress anytime. I happened to be running a few errands near Joann's and stopped in to check out their Valentine's Day fabric collection. There wasn't much to choose from, but I did manage to find 4 coordinating pink and brown fabrics, plus one sweet little birdie print fabric that kind of matched too.
After studying my selections, I decided a knot dress would be the perfect way to showcase all of the fabrics and I would add a little apron made from the birdie fabric. The knot dress ended up being a lot of pink and brown, but I think the birdie apron saves the dress from screaming Valentine's day.
But since it was Valentines' Day after all, I could help staging a little Valentine's Day Photoshoot!
She loved giving the kisses, but didn't much appreciate getting them back from her slobbery brother, lol.
Do you remember my ruffle dress/top tutorial from last year? (Odds are, you probably don't .. that sweet little dress didn't get much love- It was so cute and even included 2 pattern sizes…) Anyway, I digress… I used that pattern, with just a couple of tweaks, to make the pattern for this adorable knot dress for Valentine's day.
It's a pretty easy dress to sew, even though I was taking photos and doing other "mom stuff" throughout the sewing process, I still finished this dress in about 3/4 of a day. I also took photos along the way so I could share the directions for how to make a knot dress. The construction of this dress is very similar to my halter dress as well and is very simple. (That halter dress is another one that is great for beginners)
The dress I made her is a roomy size 6. (She will definitely get more than one year's wear out of it.) I would liked to have made the skirt of the dress fuller, but when I got to the cutting counter, I noticed the skirt fabric was "on sale" for 9.99 a yard. (too much $$$…) To make her skirt fuller I would have had to double the amount of fabric and I didn't want to spend that much.
If you do want a fuller skirt, I will include measurements in the tutorial. (It would be really cute!)
Isn't his bow tie cute? You can find the tutorial for the bow tie here. He definitely got a kick out of wearing it.
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I did the math: I could treat the office to chocolate 3x a week and still spend less money than I was spending on smokes.


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Eklund consultant Todd Battaglia offers some advice to all leaders from those leading a classroom or committee to those who are about to embark on leading a nation.
There are, of course, many ways of being a leader. As a teacher for ten years, I was the leader of a classroom. As a former teammate and coach, I was a leader on the playing field. In my work with Eklund Consulting, I help educational leaders build their leadership skills to effectively run their schools. I've read the books. I've seen leaders struggle and succeed, and I have worked with them to dissect the aftermath of their leadership.
I am offering one tidbit of advice from what I have learned from experience and from Nathan Eklund to our new administration.
When we teach leaders how to lead, we talk about looking to those in the organization who will be affected the most when a decision is made by leadership. Gaining input from all stakeholders and empathizing (or at least sympathizing) with how a decision will affect a particular group, helps to assure a successful implementation. Politicians, generally, take into account these steps as they are making the decisions. It is common to have different views and often bipartisan representation on decision-making committees in government. However, once a decision is made, there will be groups that will be more affected negatively than others. There always is.
At schools, with school administrators, we discuss that the job of a leader does not stop with making the final decisions, but that is where is the job of a leader begins. Sure, there is the step of deciding how to disseminate the plan to the constituents, but there is more than that to being a leader. In the decision-making process, it will become obvious to the leaders who will have the most difficult time with the final plan. It is up to them to lead those people through the time ahead. This is a skill many people who find themselves in leadership, especially in political leadership, do not have.
How a leader chooses to reach out to those that will oppose or will be most negatively affected by the plan is, ultimately, the key to a healthy organization.
Government often struggles with communicating the decision-making process with transparency, leaving people with a feeling of wonder and frustration about how a decision was made. Transparency is difficult and important. This involves honest, difficult discussions about why decisions were made, what affects are believed to come from the decision, and how the leader can help the affected through the effects of the plan. We suggest that these are well-communicated personally to those most opposed or affected. Done well, this often leads to a feeling of "I do not agree with this, but I understand why it should be done." Transparency also stops rumors and false information from spreading. This particular area of honest, empathetic communication seems, historically, to have been difficult within government.
Another action for successful leadership in this process is to set-up follow through and check points to continually address the decision and its effects with those most affected. Not a casual "We'll look how it's going in a month," but a date with a plan to look at the specifics of the plan's actual effect. This allows both the leader and the affected party to plan and prepare for that meeting with data and possible solutions. Coming to a follow-up meeting with solutions allows for a more positive and effective meeting. We have found this to be a lost step that leadership either excludes or neglects. It is vital to engrain a follow-up communication step into the DNA of an organization.
Honestly, as I get to this part, the wrap-up, I see that it is not only the future administration I hope reads this, but the last, and almost all of the past administrations. I wish this wasn't the case, but it is. Maybe expecting the lessons I've learned to be able to work at such a grand scale is naïve and immature, but I can only go by my experience. This works.
Leading people is hard, especially when there are so many who have different views. I have seen leaders of schools and companies struggle with this. I can only imagine the difficulty of leading a nation.


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19When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." 20After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. 21Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you." 22When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."
24But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. 25So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe."
26A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." 27Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe." 28Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" 29Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe."
30Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. 31But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.
Happy Easter! Remember Easter is a season, not just a day here at church. We are finally blossoming into a long awaited springtime. The sun is warming the earth. The daffodils have opened up. New life is bursting forth everywhere.
The church, too, blossoms at Easter. We transform an undecorated sanctuary into a vibrant, multi-sensory experience on Easter Sunday—with flowers and dresses and new ties and alleluias as a brooding lent makes way for a joyous Easter. But his hasn't always been the case. As the Easter story continues in the book of John, we discover that the disciples aren't celebrating. They are confused and locked away in fear.
Who could blame them? They were a bunch of political and religious dissidents who had just watched a public torture and execution of their leader. They feared they might be next and they did not want to die, even if Jesus did talk about the resurrection with them.
That's The Resurrection—with a capital T and a capital R—the notion that one day all of the biologically dead would be brought back to life—a controversial and divisive topic among the Jews of Jesus' day and one that is just as confusing today. Believing that Jesus had been resurrected from the dead required a leap of faith. The idea that every dead body would rise from the grave was and is unimaginable.
The disciples had been told that Jesus had risen from the dead, but they hadn't yet seen him. They weren't sure if this resurrection thing was real or not. When our story starts, they've shut themselves off and locked themselves in a room filled with fear and anxiety.
This is where we meet them, cut off from the world where Jesus walked, preached and healed. They are in a room bounded by their fear when the resurrected Jesus somehow makes his way in and stands among them. Thomas, however, is missing.
Peace be with you, Jesus says, as he shows them his hands and his side right off the bat. Seeing his wounds, the disciples recognize him. Here he is, the resurrected Jesus that they had heard about but not yet seen. The disciples must have been astonished, confused and thrilled to be in the presence of the man that they so deeply loved. When Thomas returns to them, they can't wait to tell him the good news. But as we all know, Thomas doubts.
Thomas says, "Unless I see and touch the nail marks and put my hand in his side, I will not believe." Thousands of years and many sermons later we still think of him as doubting Thomas and fault him for not taking the resurrection of Jesus on faith.
But is it fair to Thomas to only think of him as a doubter? After all, Thomas is the disciple who after Lazarus is raised says they should all go to Judea with Jesus even if it means death. The other disciples were trying to avoid going. In today's reading Verse 24 tells us Thomas wasn't with the disciples when Jesus came. We can't say for sure where he was or what he was doing, but he wasn't there. He wasn't locked in a room in fear.
When we read about Thomas, we discover that he's an outlier. He's brave enough or crazy enough or maybe even faithful enough to risk his life on the outside that locked house, in the world. And if our Christian history is correct, Thomas continues to the be the outlier going out into the world. He is thought to be the only apostle to take the story of Jesus outside of the Roman territory and is credited with introducing Christianity in India.
The second time Jesus appears to the disciples, Thomas is there. Jesus knows of the conditions Thomas has put upon his believing. But instead of simply showing Thomas his wounds like he did with the other disciples, he invites Thomas to touch his wounds. Jesus meets Thomas where he is, on Thomas' own terms, and turns his doubt into wonder.
Usually we in the church like to identify with the believing disciples. People with faith and not doubt. But, I'm guessing that every one of us has a doubt or two. Or at least some questions. For example, most of us don't have any trouble believing in Jesus' resurrection, but I wonder how many of us believe in The Resurrection that the Bible talks about.
How many of us believe that our actual bodies will come back to life long after we are dead? We stand here every week and recite the Apostle's Creed and say "I believe in the resurrection of the body and the life ever lasting. " Our creed does not say that our souls go to heaven when we die, but that our bodies will one day come out of their graves. The Bible is so clear about bodily resurrection that we've included it in our creeds. Here are a few examples:
Isaiah 26:19 Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.
1 Thess. 4:6 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Romans 8: 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
John 6:40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
When Jesus' disciples hear him talk about resurrection, they must have had their doubts, because he tells them in John 5: 28: Do not be astonished at this; for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and will come out—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.
I'm going to guess that many of us are a lot like Thomas when it comes to the idea of our bodies coming out of graves. It sounds more like the zombie apocalypse than our idea of heaven. Bodily resurrection is something that we have a lot of trouble understanding. And it may be something we have trouble believing. We have questions. We have doubts.
There are times in our lives, maybe like right now, when we are caught between what we think we know and what we are called to believe. We can conceive of souls going to heaven, but the idea of bodily resurrection is really, really hard. So we are stuck between our own ideas and the Biblical witness. But, these can the times when we grow in faith and understanding. As the Christian philosopher Paul Tillich says, Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
To grow in understanding and faith, doesn't mean we can't have doubts. But is does mean we have to hold our doubts lightly. We need to be willing to let the doubts give way to wonder and awe when it comes to God.
Unfortunately, it can be easier to put more faith in our own doubts than we do God's promises. To grow in understanding, we have to let go of what we think we know and trust God. When we trust God, we venture into the realm where things just aren't provable. Like bodily resurrection for the billions of people who have been on this earth.
When we go back and look at the story of Thomas, we can see that even though his doubts unsettled Thomas, they didn't cut him off from Jesus. Just like Jesus entered the disciples' room despite the locked doors and the disciples fear, he entered into Thomas' heart and head despite his doubts.
Most of us are like Thomas. We entertain questions and even doubts sometimes. But, we don't need to let them separate us from Jesus. Jesus will still come to us.
However, when Jesus shows up we may have to decide where to place our faith—in our own doubts or in the promises of God. Jesus may walk into in our locked up lives and invite us to explore the impossible. When he does, we shouldn't cling to our doubts in order to prove ourselves right or feel safe and secure. If we do, we will miss what God has to offer.
Ironically, it is Thomas, though his doubt and wonder, who takes the disciples' faith to an entirely new level. The other disciples refer to Jesus as My Lord. After encountering Jesus' invitation to touch his wounds, Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God."
While the disciples saw the wounds of Jesus as proof of resurrection of a human, Thomas' doubt gave way to wonder allowed him to see further into the identity of Jesus. Jesus, Thomas tells us, isn't just a man resurrected. He is God himself present in the room. Immanuel, God with us. The doubter and the outlier reveals a new truth to the other disciples.
Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe, Jesus says to Thomas at the end. Coming to belief is a dynamic process of faith and doubt. It means letting our doubts be transformed into wonder at what God is doing. It's giving up being right or absolute in order to be in relationship with God--as crazy as it may sound. We grow in faith, as Thomas did, when let go of our fear, our agenda, and our doubt and follow Christ into an unlikely yet extraordinary mystery of faith.
We need to be willing to take Jesus' invitation to see and touch things that make no sense. Jesus walks into our closed hearts or minds in new and unusual ways He invites us to be transformed and live in the fullness of joy. Not just once, but over the course of our whole lives.
And so I invite you—and your questions and doubts— into the great mystery of faith…Christ has died. Christ is Risen. Christ will come again. Christ came so that you might have life and have it abundantly and eternally. That is God's promise. You may question how that happens. But don't doubt for a minute that Jesus is willing to come to you and invite you to live into that promise.


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DUNEDIN — An 8-acre piece of land has turned into a battleground among the Catholic Church, the city and people who love Hammock Park and the gopher tortoises that live there.
The church owns the land, which is adjacent to the park, and has an agreement to sell it to a developer for a housing project.
A group of residents is trying to block the church's deal with Taylor Morrison Homes, arguing that the tree-filled lot, part of the 35-acre campus of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, has been used for years as if it was part of the park. They also raise concerns about threatened gopher tortoises on the property.
"There is magic there," resident Pam Hillestad told the City Commission last week during a meeting that packed City Hall. "There is so little of this left in Florida and we are lucky to have it right here. Let's not let go of it."
The diocese referred calls to the church, whose representative and Realtor Scott Rehm says there are two reasons for the sale: to decrease the church's liability for people using the space as a part of Hammock Park and to cash in on the unused acreage to pay for the church's remodeling projects.
"It is important to note … that the acres are owned by the diocese. It is not part, nor has it ever been part of the (park)," he said at Thursday's meeting.
Hordes of opposers have flocked — some carrying colorful signs decorated with tree branches, wearing tie-dye shirts and one even driving a hippie bus — to city meetings and to a protest in front of a recent Sunday morning Mass.
At Thursday's meeting, residents tried to persuade commissioners to do something — anything — to stop the sale.
"Haven't we allowed enough development in Dunedin? The charm of this quaint town is disappearing more and more each time we see a sign saying new townhomes coming soon," resident Niki Barber said.
Others, including 9-year-old Audrey Akter, focused on the population of gopher tortoises, a species listed as threatened in Florida.
"How would you like it if you got kicked out of your home?" she said, holding a homemade tortoise poster. "It's not right or fair at all."
After hearing from about 30 residents, Mayor Julie Ward Bujalski proposed the city submit a backup offer on the property, and fellow commissioners agreed.
But Rehm said although the city has every right to submit the offer, the window for change is nearly shut.
"We have a contract with Taylor Morrison, and we plan on honoring it," he said. "They still have a lot of things they need to go through, but we are obligated to them under the terms of the agreement."
In a twist, one of the things Taylor Morrison might need to go through is a zoning change, which the commission would have to vote on.
Lael Giebel, project coordinator for the city, said the company has not contacted the city staff since a May 25 Development Review Committee meeting, the first gathering to be swarmed by more than 100 angry residents, but the next step will be for developers to submit a zoning application.
"We know they are considering doing townhomes," Giebel said, which would require a zoning change.
Taylor Morrison spokeswoman Linda Gross declined to comment on the company's plans, but if developers choose townhomes, commissioners could deny the zoning change, forcing the developers to change their proposal or back out completely, giving the city a chance at saving the space as parkland.
It could also be the a shot at redemption for the city, which is getting heat for missing an earlier chance at the property.
Before striking the deal with Taylor Morrison, the church in February offered the land to the city for $1.2 million, but commissioners declined at the recommendation of the city staff, which said the church was unwilling to negotiate a price or payment plan.
But an email Rehm sent in November, when the city was in talks with the church, to parks and recreation coordinator Vince Gizzi, planning and development director Greg Rice and then-Assistant City Manager Doug Hutchens, indicates otherwise.
"I wish to thank you for the time spent with us yesterday regarding Our Lady of Lourdes intent on selling … their property," Rehm said in the email. "After the meeting, Father Gary (Dowsey) reiterated his willingness to entertain the parish holding a 7 to 10 year mortgage, if that were beneficial to the city. Other options also to be considered include an installment sale or lease purchase."
Bujalski apologized for the city's mistake at the Thursday meeting, but said it isn't the commission's fault.
"What we are hearing now is different from what we were told," she said.
She said somehow the information given from the church to staff members, who did not return calls for comment Friday, was lost in translation to the commission.
Bujalski said the backup offer should come back before the commission in the next few weeks, but until then, it's a waiting game while the developers do their due diligence. The church hopes to close the deal sometime next year.
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A powerlifter trained two hours a day. A runner ran up to 15 miles a day but always ran a minimum of 6 daily. A group exercise instructor taught Bootcamp and Spin five days a week.
Sounds like a routine schedule for those three individuals.
What if I told you it's not three individuals but a 21 year old girl. She did all of these activities on a bag of popcorn, an apple, and a bowl of oatmeal daily. She used exercise as a means to "purge" her body of the calories consumed.
No one said anything to her because she was just doing what an active girl did.
Even when bald spots began forming on her young, feminine head.
Or when she cried on the scale at powerlifting competition weigh ins.
Not even when she refused to eat in public after running a race and avoided all public mirrors and pictures.
In fact, no one said anything to her until she was injured in a bicycle accident. A bicycle accident that shouldn't have happened. The girl had already lifted for hours, ran for miles, and taught classes on a near empty stomach. Thinking she was fat and needed to burn off the calories of her daily apple and oatmeal, she mounted her mountain bike for a road ride. She was clipped by a purple van, flung over it's hood, and thrown across the pavement.
It wasn't the fractured hip and cheekbone, busted blood vessels in her eyes, or missing fingernails that caused anyone to notice her disease. It was being witnessed immediately after diagnosis of her injuries trying to do sit ups in the hospital. She was convinced her 117 pound frame was going to gain weight because she hadn't exercised in two hours (since the accident).
That Girl Was Me
I was diagnosed with exercise bulimia and was included in the statistic that 13.5% of elite athletes suffer from some form of an eating disorder.
I can hear you now, "Wait, what eating disorder? You just exercised a lot."
Unfortunately exercise isn't always good for you. I'll wait for you to lower your eyebrows and close your mouths at that metaphorical bombshell.
In my pursuit of a perfect body I ruined my own. By training excessively, improperly fueling my body, and never taking rest days, I had done irreparable damage. My L3, L4, L5, and S1 vertebras in my back (pretty much the entire lower half of my back) were permanently bulged and I am now prohibited from performing high impact movements and sitting for long periods of time.
So what happens when exercise becomes such an obsession that it derails training and causes more harm than good? How do you know when you, or someone you love, crosses that line and suffers from exercise bulimia?
Exercise Bulimia
Bulimia can affect 4.7 million women and 1.5 million men during their lifetime but it's rarely mentioned in the fitness community. Most individuals, especially athletes, want to be stronger, faster, and look better naked. Usually no one bats an eye at how often someone exercises; that can't be considered a disorder can it?
Learn the warning signs and symptoms of exercise bulimia (or excessive exercise), effective approaches of tactful intervention, and how to seek appropriate treatment for yourself or your friends so you don't have to suffer as long as I did.
The Basics
Exercise bulimia is a subset of bulimia, a disorder characterized by the inflicted individual's need to "purge" calories consumed. Rather than the "traditional" vomiting or use of laxatives, exercise bulimics use excessive exercise as their purging outlet. A majority of individuals suffering from this disease have underlying depression or anxiety.
Warning Signs & Symptoms
Not every symptom or warning sign will be as extreme as some of mine.
Exercise bulimia can be a subtle and sneaky disease manifesting in behavioral and physical conditions. Most individuals suffering from it will "appear to be normal bodyweight" so it's important to notice any behavioral changes.
Below are some common warning signs and symptoms to look for if you think you or a friend may be suffering from exercise bulimia:
Behavioral Signs & Symptoms
· Excessive exercising regardless of health, injury, and weather
· Attending the gym three or more times a day
· Refusing rest days
· Skipping class, work, or social functions if they did not exercise that day
· Avoiding social functions where food is involved
· Hyper focusing on calorie intake and output
· Exercising for a very specific amount of time or until the calories consumed have been burned
· Reducing caloric intake drastically if unable to exercise that day
· Fearful of gaining weight if they do not exercise that day
· Feeling extreme guilt or anger if unable to exercise that day
· Being uncharacteristically defensive if someone suggests they exercise too much
Physical Signs & Symptoms
· Hair loss
· Chronic joint pain
· Loss of menstrual cycles in females (exercise induced amenorrhea) resulting in potential reproductive system failure
· Weakened immune system resulting in frequent or prolonged sickness.
Regardless of whether the warning signs and symptoms are behavioral or physical, perfectionism remains at the core of exercise bulimics' need to purge through exercise so their actions and thoughts will mirror that.
Intervention Approaches
If you are reading this article and have even the slightest concern for yourself or someone you love, then something isn't right. You need to address the issue before it escalates any further. However, what you say to someone who may be suffering can either push them to relapse or recovery.
Confronting Yourself
· Carefully evaluate how often you have been training, why you've been training, and how you've been feeling using the checklist above.
· Confide in a trusted friend about your concerns. A support system is vital in your recovery.
· Seek out a general practitioner, therapist, or psychiatrist to talk to and work through your recovery. I know from experience this is the hardest thing to do but I promise you it is worth it.
Approaching Others
· Approach a nutritionist or professional with any questions you have before talking to your friend to ensure you handle the situation tactfully. I recommend Constance Shelby of Perfect Fit Nutrition.
· When you talk to your friend, do so in private. Keep your tone comforting and conversational. Do not judge, berate, or make fun of your friend. This can cause them to be defensive and spiral further into their disease.
· Do not ask them to keep a food log. If someone has an eating disorder this is the worst thing you can do.
· Do not talk about their body weight or appearance (good or bad); focus on their behavioral patterns.
Treatment Options
Typical treatment options may include therapy sessions with a trained professional. Since exercise bulimia is typically associated with depression, anxiety, or trauma, those underlying issues need to be addressed so the individual can recover. The severity of the disease within the individual will dictate whether they will receive in patient or outpatient therapy. If caught early, most individuals will receive outpatient treatment in a therapist's office. Individual or group therapy sessions are typically available.
Individuals with exercise bulimia have an unhealthy relationship with food and calories. Working with a licensed nutritionist or dietician to help improve their relationship with food is crucial in creating long term success and recovery. Learning about food and why your body needs certain nutrients goes a long way in that journey.
Medication may be prescribed if necessary but typically would be used to treat the underlying diseases that contributed to exercise bulimia (depression, anxiety, PTSD).
Monitoring of exercise habits may also occur. Seeking the advice of recommended personal trainers or professionals with experience in eating disorder is beneficial to instilling a healthy relationship with exercise. Learning how to balance healthy exercise regimes and having that progress monitored and can help form safe and long lasting recovery.
I spent years in recovery, found a nutritionist, and activities that didn't require me to obsess with my weight. For years I had to avoid Fitness magazines and things that made me feel inferior.
Working in a fitness facility hindered my recovery but that took me years to figure out. If you look on my Facebook timeline you'll notice an absence of photographs from certain time periods. That's because I was in relapse; I was injured or had gained weight (easy to do once you stop restricting) and was ashamed of how I looked.
Luckily I've been able to find balance in the last few years. The thoughts to purge my body of calories are very few and far between. I just don't act on those thoughts anymore. Instead I take my experiences and use them to work with my own athletes and those struggling with eating disorders and exercise bulimia.
Exercise bulimia is a silent disease undetectable by the uninformed eye. Yet society does not have to be silent about fighting it. Dialogue not only opens doors but can save lives.
If you feel like you or someone you know is suffering from this disease, in any form or fashion, then please speak up and say something.


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Recently I had the good fortune to attend the Global Scrum Gathering in Orlando, Florida (#SGFLA). The stated theme of the gathering was "Transforming the World of Work". A strong undercurrent amongst participants was that while Scrum has helped incrementally improve many teams and organizations, so much more could be achieved.
What's missing?
As a community we've been all too focused on the mechanics of Scrum. Despite subscribing to the Agile Manifesto's primary value of "Individuals and Interactions", we've somehow placed more focus on the other 3 values; maybe because they're easier. At the gathering, I participated in many conversations centred on the need for being agile (rather than doing agile) and being agile hinges on having an agile mindset. Helping individuals, teams, and organizations achieve an agile mindset should be our FIRST priority.
Without that shift in mindset realized, I've witnessed and willfully participated in the decay of many agile transitions based in mechanics. To be clear, mechanics ARE important, but in the spirit of the Agile manifesto we value agile mindset more. As Steve Denning stated in his recent review of HBR's 'Embracing Agile':
"Agile isn't just a methodology to be implemented within the existing management framework. Agile is a dramatically different framework for management itself."
"If managers themselves see Agile as "methodologies for their employees" to be deployed like any other management methodology, the chance of strong sustainable Agile implementation with full benefits is remote. Getting the full value of Agile depends on managers themselves consistently embodying the Agile mindset in all their own words and actions."
A significant part of the role of any coach is to focus on mindset. By focusing first on mindset, the mechanics are much more likely to come naturally and continue to evolve. Agile is, after all, a journey not a destination. During the gathering, at Michael Sahota's workshop on Reinventing Organizations, he said: "The consciousness of the change approach limits the outcome." Effectively, without helping change the mindset and consciousness (=culture!) of the people and organizations we work with, our efforts to transform the world of work will never achieve their potential. The engineer in me is reminded of a quote often attributed to Albert Einstein "Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them." Quantum mechanics may be much more complex than Scrum mechanics, but the need for a different mindset to see their true value remains the same.
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Latest figures show that the Syria crisis received more private donations of humanitarian assistance than any other crisis in 2015. Development Initiatives published their Global Humanitarian Assistance report today, which finds that private donors reportedly gave US$398 million to the Syria crisis last year. This is a significant increase from US$114 million given to the same crisis the year before.
Private donors have historically responded more generously to natural disasters and sudden onset emergencies, and Syria has interrupted this trend. Private donations are being increasingly seen as an important source of funding for the response to humanitarian crises, and their total contribution to crises globally has increased, for the third year running, to an estimated US$6.2 billion, making up almost a quarter of total international humanitarian assistance contributions. The research also finds that this money is typically given via NGOs, who relied on private donations for 64% of their total funding in 2014.
A record total of US$28 billion was given globally last year, and the majority of this funding (US$21.8 billion) continues to come from government donors. In recent years there has been a significant increase from Gulf states, particularly the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar, who collectively gave 11% of the global total from governments in 2015 – compared to 3% in 2011. These contributions have come in response to crises in the Middle East. Multilateral institutions such as the World Bank are also playing an important role in the region, supporting countries hosting large numbers of refugees.
Harpinder Collacott, Executive Director at Development Initiatives, said "In the face of such human suffering, the World Humanitarian Summit and other global processes have intensified the search for new types and scales of financing, including how development finance can play a greater role in preventing crises and responding to protracted displacement. Private donations and other forms of finance are playing a greater role and this is vital for the future. Crucially we need transparent, accessible and timely information on these resources so that they work together and respond effectively to need – and this is a big task now facing actors involved in providing humanitarian finance."
The report also provides new analysis on different funding mechanisms that are emerging in humanitarian financing. These include an increase in insurance policies being taken out in countries faced with natural disasters, and the role of increasingly prominent actors like the multilateral development banks
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- The executive summary and full report can be found after the embargo is lifted at http://www.devinit.org/GHA2016
- Data graphics are available
- Interviews can be arranged with Charlotte Lattimer, Senior Policy and Engagement Adviser and Sophia Swithern, Head of Research and Analysis
Key findings include:
- When donations were considered as a percentage of gross national income, Turkey, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Sweden were the four donors that provided the most in 2015.
- In 2014 Syria was the largest recipient of humanitarian assistance at US$2 billion followed by South Sudan, Iraq, Palestine and Jordan.
- In 2015 the US was the largest donor of international humanitarian assistance at US$6.4 billion, followed by Turkey (where refugee hosting costs are included), the UK, EU institutions, Germany, Sweden and the UAE.
- Shortfalls in funding to UN-coordinated appeals grew to 45%, with large disparities in funding between crises – for example, Iraq received 74% of funding requested while Gambia had only 5% of requirements met.
- At least 76% of people living in extreme poverty – around 677 million people – are estimated to live in countries that are either politically fragile, environmentally vulnerable or both. However, the real number is likely to be much higher, since it is often those most at risk who are missing from poverty data.
- The number of people displaced by violence and persecution globally is now a record 65.3 million, generating severe suffering and humanitarian need.
- People affected by natural disasters over the last decade have predominantly been in Middle Income Countries. However in 2015, the number of people affected in Low Income Countries significantly increased, reaching 43 million – 48% of the total – placing further strain on already poor and vulnerable populations.
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Andrew Brawley was supposed to die that night. His parents did, and so did his sister, but he survived.
Now he lives in the hospital. He serves food in the cafeteria, he hangs out with the nurses, and he sleeps in a forgotten supply closet. Drew blends in to near invisibility, hiding from his past, his guilt, and those who are trying to find him.
Then one night Rusty is wheeled into the ER, burned on half his body by hateful classmates. His agony calls out to Drew like a beacon, pulling them both together through all their pain and grief. In Rusty, Drew sees hope, happiness, and a future for both of them. A future outside the hospital, and away from their pasts.
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This book is the kind of book that blindsides you on an idle Sunday morning.
And that's not me trying to write a flouncy opening to a review while toeing the line of plagiarising Mary Schmich.
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley really did blindside me on an idle Sunday morning.
I read this book in about three hours. I started it on Saturday night in an "Oh, I'll just start it and then I'll finish it whenever" and next thing I know, I had demolished a hundred pages and I was truly, utterly captivated. It's been a while since I entertained the idea of inhaling a book in one sitting.
Unfortunately, and through no fault of the book, I fell asleep but I set my alarm at seven (well OK half eight) to read it.
And gosh. I can't remember the last time I was this thoroughly taken by a book. And taken is the only way I can describe how I felt after this book.
I was taken on this weird and wonderful and odd journey by a boy who lives in a hospital after his family die in a car crash. I was taken away from my world and I got tangled up in his emotions: his guilt, his fear, his wrecking grief, his joy, his sorrow and, most wonderfully, his love. I was taken by his fury and his passion.
I was taken by the characters he meets: Rusty, the boy who is brought into A&E after suffering horrific burns, Trevor and Lexi, the nurses, the doctors, the cafe workers and, most intriguingly, Death. High-heeled and composed, she stalks the corridors, looking to take Andrew. She was late last time but Andrew doubts she'll miss him next time.
I was taken by the addition of the glorious comic book that complimented the story so well. And that made me sniffle at the end few panels.
I know, I know. I am no longer a heartless Northerner.
And I was taken by one of the most interesting contemporary settings I've read in fiction. I've always been fascinated by YA books that are set in enclosed scenarios and this book is solely set in a hospital. It's clinical and it's harsh but it allows SDH to really explore these characters and let them thrive, driving the story through heartbreak and wonder.
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You can probably tell I loved this book. It's unique and challenging and it made me feel like this is the direction that YA fiction should be heading in.
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Watching four extremely verbal and highly intelligent characters discuss politics and personal relationships with cleverness and wit is my idea of theatrical heaven. So forgive me if I wax ecstatic about John Morogiello's delightful "Engaging Shaw."
Henry Wishcamper directs a terrific cast in the show's West Coast premiere through Sept. 4 in the Old Globe's Sheryl & Harvey White Theatre. The play will receive its European premiere at Vienna's English Theatre next spring.
One of the quartet is that well-known curmudgeon and iconoclast George Bernard Shaw, who manages to be a successful ladies' man despite also being a vegetarian, teetotaling, egotistical, anti-marriage, anti-sex socialist.
I'm not sure whether that says more about women or about Shaw, but in any case Morogiello lets us look in as the irascible but sometimes charming Shaw (Rod Brogan) meets his match in one Charlotte Payne-Townshend (Angela Pierce).
The year is 1896; the place, the country home of dedicated Fabian socialists Sidney (Michael Warner) and Beatrice Webb (Natalie Gold). Beatrice, also an indefatigable matchmaker, interrupts Sidney's pontification about socialist theory for a more important topic: the nice artist she means to introduce to their friend Shaw.
But it's too late: he's already met Miss Townshend by inadvertently running her into a ditch on her bicycle.
Charlotte, as it happens, is a wealthy heiress, and Beatrice had someone else in mind for her. But Beatrice does want Shaw to chat her up nicely and get her to contribute to the Webbs' latest effort, the founding of the London School of Economics.
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They agree about one thing: marriage. They're both agin it – loudly, insistently and repeatedly. Shaw puts it this way: "Mrs. Webb has an amusing notion that the best cure for freedom is slavery."
Charlotte agrees, though this nice 40-something Victorian virgin can't resist pestering Shaw for details about the one sexual experience he admits to. And she eventually changes her mind about marriage and enlists Beatrice's help in her campaign.
Step one is that Charlotte becomes his secretary, typing his rants and plays and essays.
Brogan and Pierce prove formidable acting colleagues and debating adversaries as they bring this relationship (based largely on Shaw's letters) to life. My only quibble is that both suffer from peekaboo Irish accents.
Warner is excellent as the political man par excellence, amused and a little put off by his equally committed wife's apparent need to dabble in the emotional lives of their friends.
Gold is equally fine and especially effective in the scene in which she tells Sidney he's out of his league when women get together to talk relationships.
This is a handsome production, anchored by Wilson Chin's book-crammed in-the-round set design and Alejo Vietti's lovely costume design, especially for the women. Matthew Richards' lighting and Paul Peterson's sound design complete the excellent team.
I'll leave you to find out whether Charlotte bags her man. Rest assured that this theatrical journey is one of the most delightful you will have this season.
The details
"Engaging Shaw" plays through Sept. 4 at the Old Globe's Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre in Balboa Park.
Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 7 pm; Thursday through Saturday at 8 pm; matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2 pm.
For tickets call (619) 234-5623 or visit HERE.
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