You are reading a top secret mission.
A mission that I am too embarrassed to share.
A mission that puts me in an unflattering light.
Yet, I am at a breaking point; it is do or die.
I am addicted to sucking at my business.
Just as my addiction to food; I didn't want to have it. I didn't want to eat 4 rolls of lifesavers in 10 minutes. Yet those lifesavers felt like a lifesaver.
In February 2009, I believed the only way to end my pain was to end my life.
Now, in April 2017, I believe the only way to end my pain is to end my business.
Over at www.savoryou.com I share all about my addiction to food, my recovery and how I help others heal their relationship with food.
What I have realized today is that I am addicted to my thoughts of failing in my business.
By doing this business I have lost:
* Life long friends.
* My recovery at times.
* over 100,000 dollars.
* my integrity
* my peace of mind.
I have friends who ask me "Why do you do this if it makes your miserable?"
I wonder that everyday as well.
I also cuss out God; sharing that he is cruel to give me such a desire and then to ensure that I suck.
Today, I am seeing that God may not be the issue at all that actually, I AM or rather, my addiction to worry and to the story that I cannot succeed in business IS the issue.
That no matter what I do; nothing will work.
I create content, yet no one reads it responds to it or shares it.
I thought that maybe God was right; I sucked at this and I need to go into the background and just be a support to my family.
This addiction to my thoughts mirror the addiction to food.
You cannot swear off food and your cannot swear off thinking.
I took this to God via my journal:
Maureen, give it to me. Give me all these thoughts.
Thank you Maureen, for sharing your story, your struggle, your vulnerability and your courage. You are SO not alone in this struggle.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to following you on this journey, and to seeing how you use your healing process for your thoughts the way you used them for food.
: ) Jen
So grateful you are by my side.
Delete<3 It is a joy to be there : )
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