Can One Person Really Make A Difference?

I have a little 8 year old daughter who watches the Disney channel and the other night all the teen stars of their most popular shows did a Save The Earth type of show and of course Hannah Montana was leading the pack.  But what she said was really cool and although I can’t quote her because I wasn’t thinking that I would need to :) it went something like this:

Can just one person make a difference? Absolutely! One person can make a difference because she has friends.  And those friends have friends and soon enough 1 million people are now making a difference.

I think we can do that with compulsive overeating.

When I first started looking for help to heal my binge eating disorder I went to my doctor basically because I had no idea where else to start. Unfortunately, she had no idea either!

Then I found OA (Overeaters Anonymous) and gave that a few tries but it wasn’t what I needed. The people who attended the meetings had no idea why others were suffering from compulsive overeating or what to do for it. We just kept talking about the crappy days we had. And to be fair, it wasn’t their fault. They were not trained as eating disorder specialists to know how to help anyone.

So seriously, what else is there? What other way can people get information about the disorder, the causes, the symptoms, the signs and the process to stop?

I’m hoping it is by me talking about it to my friends like you.

The web is very large and powerful (Like Oz!) and we have our voices to start a wave of inspiration.

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