The last four days, I had experienced a variety of uncomfortable and somewhat painful symptoms flare up rather suddenly. It wiped me out and I was pretty much confined to either my couch or bed. I got behind in a lot of my household chores. To top it off, it snowed most of those four days. The only exception was a little sunshine (which I was immensely grateful for) on Saturday.  Between the symptoms and gloomy, cold weather that dominated over those four days, I hit a wall and fell into a pit of depression and anxiety. By the fourth day, I was so worn out and fatigued that I was desperate for anything to lift me out of the pit of depression and anxiety. I made a pour choice and once again the truth was staring me in the face, "The answer to our problems will never be through (processed) food." There it was. I saw it and I knew it. Usually, when I encounter a truth bomb that goes off in my face, the only way to survive the impact is to make a choice about what I will do differently. 

It's stupid really...I knew better than to keep the remains of the backfired "bake an take" sugary, unopened ingredients in my pantry, BUT, I apparently believed that if I didn't feel tempted one day by them, that I would never feel tempted by them. I didn't even store them at eye-level. It only took one intense bout of depression and anxiety to feel desperate enough to allow the temptation to partake of them, to seep through the cracks of my own pride...the pride that told me that I was about the temptation. I felt worse afterwards. My problem had only compounded. As I sat there on the couch that night with my daughter, and removed the food from out of sight, we had a discussion about how we were feeling emotionally and that's when inspiration came knocking at my door in the form of an "unexpected remedy." I share in this episode what my daughter and I decided to differently moving forward (so grateful that she is so supportive of me through my recovery). I share the inspiration in hopes that it may help you too. 

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