Welcome back!

Do you struggle with your sense
of self due to a weight problem? I have. In fact, I have thought I was fat all
my life. In the years that led up to high school, mine was one of the larger
bodies in my classroom. It was not obese, simply large. It’s kind of funny how
my sense of that word large has
changed over the years of my life. When I was in high school wearing a size 12,
I thought that size was HUGE and GIGANTIC. Now that I am a size 22, size 12
seems so small to me.

I’ve always had a fondness for
discovering what the bottom line is in any circumstance, especially my own
life. Why was I put here? What am I supposed to learn? What is the best way to
accomplish that? I was led to believe that being good, loving God, becoming
successful, enjoying myself, and having a normal appearance is what life is
about. Well, I failed miserably at having a normal appearance. So, did that
make me a failure? I reasoned that if there is a loving God, surely I wouldn’t
flunk the grade just because I was fat. That part of me was just one weak link
in the face of so many strong ones!

But I needed resolution on that
weakest link. Why wasn’t I successful in losing weight? What did it really
take? Why don’t diets work? How can people be so cruel with their comments? It
took me years and years to ferret out the answers to these and many more
questions and I want to share them with you. If just one other person is served
with my writing, then I have paid it forward and I will be satisfied.

We all have our areas of
expertise. Mine is self-acceptance and self-love born from living an ordinary
life, from being obese, and from searching for the truth. Now, I’m looking at
retirement and I want to share what I’ve learned in my lifetime with others so
that your learning will be a little easier.

What began as one simple story has
evolved into The Wise Weight Woman’s
Trilogy. These books are for the
obese so that they might be free. The books are written and are being edited as I blog today. They’ll soon be published and available here: The World of Within . Meanwhile, I invite you to sign up for In-sights, my ezine also here: The World of Within. I’ll be keeping you appraised of the books’ progress and providing fascinating articles about how you mistakenly created your largeness and how you can love yourself back into normalcy.

Love,

Pat

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