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MentorCONNECT - FIND a Mentor
Serving as a Mentor is a wonderful, satisfying way to share all that you have gained from your own recovery journey with another who seeks recovery. Each member of the MentorCONNECT Leadership Team also currently serves as a Mentor - and Founder Shannon Cutts began her recovery journey with the help of just one caring individual - her mentor, Annie!
One new MentorCONNECT Mentor recently shared with us her experiences thus far:
Dear MentorCONNECT, I just wanted to let you know that so far one girl has reached out to me - [I am] still thinking of taking on one more [mentee] pending on how this goes....she is having a hard time and I love helping her already! Liz
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Mary Pat: My name is Mary Pat Nally and I am interested in becoming a mentor. I have healed a 24-year eating disorder and will be graduating with my masters in spiritual psychology this coming august. You can find me online at authenticallyme.com and you can also find articles that I have written by googling me or going to ezinearticles.com. Blessings to you -
Kim: My name is Kim Ratcliffe and I would be interested in serving as a mentor. I think its a great thing - the more support out there, the better in my opinion (something I didn't have much of while recovering.) I have been in recovery for over 12 years now, and yes, I am eating disorder-free. :) For more about my story, please visit my blog: http://www.angelfire.com/oh3/anorexia.
Veethi: Hello. I am 25 and have experienced a huge life turn around through coming into recovery, through in and out patient treatment and OA. I am not 100% obsessive thought free...I will still have days where i will be thinking alot about eating disorder behaviour. the difference now is that I have so much more life inside me, so much more going on that I am very happy about, and also that i do not ACT on them. i have bipolar II and working with healing this along with bullimia (which mainly took the form of binging and starving for days, and purging.) I am very creative and feel that to a large extent, my recovery comes through finding meaning and purpose. For me, this means creative expresion; art, dance, community, music, nature and finding a connection to the universe, to god, to something - it gets so complicated with naming! - that sustains me and holds me when I can not hold myself. My recovery has been made possible through finally finding a safety net of people who have loved and supported me unconditionally and truly wanted the very best for me. I would love to be one of those people for you.
Jeanette: I am a 30 year-old female from Texas. I struggled with anorexia, bulimia, compulsive over-exercising and self mutilation from the age of 11. I have been in recovery since the summer of 2005 (3 years). I have been in treatment all over the country both by choice and because it was forced on me. I have learned how to want recovery for myself. My journey has been one with lots of peaks and valleys but in the end I have learned so much about myself in the process. I don't believe I can help people avoid pain in life but I believe I can be there to support people as they go through the painful times and to help them see the rainbow in the trials. After all, no matter how many times people told me the consequences of eating disorders it did not make an impact until I went through many of the consequences and learned through those experiences that I did not want that for my life. Through my journey I have learned so much about myself and now after many years of struggling I am in recovery and just recently graduated with my Ph.D. in counseling psychology. I believe I can use my experiences to support others along their journey in a non-preachy, non-threatening, encouraging way so that individuals can learn how great life can be without an eating disorder. If you think you might be interested in talking to me please feel free to contact me!
Jess: I am interested in becoming a mentor. I'm about a month away from graduating university in the UK. I used to suffer from bulimia, in the non-purging form. It started when I was about fourteen and continued until I was about eighteen. I've been more or less clear for over three years now. It's hard to be precise about the ages because of the slow process both of developing the disorder and recovering. I still have bad days and the temptation to binge, but it's been a long time since I've been truly disordered and I'm generally happy with myself and my life. I want to help other people achieve the same. What was the point of me going through hell if I can't help pull other people out of it? I would love to break down some of the common misconceptions that bulimia is just about throwing up. I have a blog http://stillhopingstilleating.blogspot.com. Please let me know if you think I can help.
Cayce: Hi, my name is Cayce and I live in South Carolina. I'm married and currently trying to get pregnant. I had 3 miscarriages due to my Eating Disorder. I have been married for 3 years. My ED started about 10 years ago, but about a year and a half ago it hit its peak. I was on the verge of heart and organ failure and my digestive system had stopped working. I am in full recovery now and I am loving life! I would love to help anyone going through this. My ED is anorexia. My passion is to help! I lost so much due to my horrible ED, but I have learned that my life is worth so much more than a number on a scale or a number in a pair of pants. That's not happiness. Going to the doctor and hearing that my health is good and that I'm no longer in danger of dropping dead at any given moment is the most wonderful thing. God saved me from my ED, and I would love to share my journey with others. If I can help save one person, my struggle was worth it.
Liz: Hi - I would love to become a mentor. My name is Liz. I am a mother of two and a wife. I am 22 years old (FEMALE) and I will always be a recovering anorexic (since i was 9 to 18) and bulimic (9 to 18 ) along with self harm (9 to 20). I had tried to recover many times before. I did it but when I started to date my now husband everything changed so from 18. My current Support is my husband, 2 of my friends and my work that used to be my support as a young child (now I am the adult helping the children in our youth club). Hopefully I can join I would love to help out someone else as so many people have helped me.
NOTE: Remember, to join MentorCONNECT, just send us an and let us know who you are, where you are in your recovery, and what you are looking for (to be a mentor or a mentee).
Details you might want to include: your email address, your first name (or alias for confidentiality), age, gender, type of eating disorder, any other recovery-related issues you are working on, length of illness, length of time pursuing recovery, current support team, recovery goals, key learnings from your recovery journey thus far, anything else you wish to share.
We will post the emails here on this page and you can connect with one another! Any questions - us and we will do our best to answer them for you!
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