"I just wanted to say HELLO....and say how thankful I am again to you and Selah House!!!!

The holidays especially make me realize it...because I don't dread them anymore! I'm not afraid of the food! I was thinking the other day, journaling about life without ed (eating disorder) and areas I've really grown and areas I can still grow in...and I realized I honesty and genuinely have not counted a calorie since commencing from Selah House a YEAR AND A HALF AGO!!! That is AMAZING!!! I counted calories since I was in third or fourth grade, ya know? and now, as a junior in college I don't think twice about labels and calorie content. I can drink with my friends and enjoy it because I know things other than water won't make me fat. And I actually love life rather than hoping to die in my sleep. Thank you doesn't even suffice, Chaia.

Also...I'm looking at an AMAZING opportunity for the summer. I might work for a nonprofit as a PARTY PLANNER and spend time in Thailand! I'd be working for an organization called Women at Risk International-it supports victims of sex trafficking. I'd get to work with women searching for freedom (in a different sense, of course)....and this is another reason I'm so thankful for Selah. I wouldn't have the confidence to ever apply for a position like this with ed. I'd think I was too fat to get a job or be useful. And I actually lived to be 20, rather than let my heart stop from ed or kill myself.

THANK YOU, and merry Christmas. Much love,
Mindy"