Dear Mandy Marie:

Welcome back to your own thread, glad you are back.

What you expressed in your last post is that perseverance I mentioned in my last post to you. I wrote there:

“What you did, as ‘life kept getting in the way’ was to ‘eventually just gave up. I stopped taking care of myself, ate unhealthy junk… I started hiding from the world, and still am to this day.’ Clearly, the solution is a change of state of mind from giving up to persevere.”

And persevere, following the last even of life getting in the way, you did: you cleaned and organized your things, spent more time and initiated contact with your family members, played a game in moderation, communicating with friends, researching an online course and earning an associate degree in tuition-free state university; you meditate, exercise breathing better and you keep a gratitude journal. Good work!

anita