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MentorCONNECT's Weekly Mentoring Moment
A Chance to Build New Skills for Mentoring Matchups
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December 28, 2009
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| Theme for the Week:
We Wish You All the Best for 2010! |
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| Welcome to this month's Good News!
 Time for New Beginnings
This is a time for reflection as well as celebration.
As you look back on the past year
and all that has taken place in your life,
Remember each experience for the good that has come of it
and for the knowledge you have gained.
Remember the efforts you have made
and the goals you have reached.
Remember the love you have shared
and the happiness you have brought.
Remember the laughter, the joy,
the hard work, and the tears.
And as you reflect on the past year,
also be thinking of the new one to come.
Because most importantly, this is a time of new beginnings
and the celebration of life.
Taylor Addison, Blue Mountain Arts, 1989
Thank you for being a part of MentorCONNECT.
We wish you all the best for 2010,
Shannon, Jeanette, Andrea, Lynn, Cheryl, & Thom
(your MC Leadership & Advisory Team) |
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 Live Chat Reminder:
Even though it is New Year's eve, we will have our live chat this Thursday as usual at 8pm Central Time.
We are looking forward to seeing you on tonight's & Thursday night's live chat.
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Special donation offer available till December 31:
Donate $25 (or more) to MentorCONNECT and get a
free recovery book & CD as our THANK YOU!
As
a part of the MentorCONNECT family, you know that we are a group of
volunteer leaders, mentors and those in recovery who work together to
overcome the bane of an eating disorder... completely FREE to
anyone who needs help.
 And
while our team of mentors and volunteers are dedicated to offering
our time for free, there are always costs involved in running such an
organization. That's why we need your help in the form of donations.
But we
also want to show appreciation for the faith you show in us with your
dollars, so for any $25 donation (or more) you make during the
month of December, we'll send you a copy of Andrea Roe's and Shannon
Cutts' book/CD, You Are Not Alone Volume 2. It's our way of saying THANK YOU for your support.
It's an inspiring collection of personal recovery stories,
poems, artwork and song lyrics by women who are either in recovery or
fully recovered from an eating disorder. Included in the book is also
the You Are Not Alone Companion CD filled with healing songs by women who are either fully recovered or in recovery from an eating disorder.
 To make your donation, simply go to www.key-to-life.com/mc_give.
Once you have place your donation, someone from the MentorCONNECT team
will get in touch with you to confirm your mailing address for the book.
Thank you again for all your support!
Your MentorCONNECT Ledership & Advisory team
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Mentoring "Thought for the Week"
I
somehow survived my past to get this far, which is how I know that I do
have it in me to navigate the unknown path before me with great success.
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Join us on Wednesday, January 13: MC Teleconference Series
"Feel the Feelings & Do It Anyway:
Finding Your Voice for Change in the New Year"
 In our first teleconference of 2010, Doris Smeltzer,
MA, shares the powerful and poignant story of how she survived the most
devastating blow imaginable - the loss of her nineteen year-old
daughter, Andrea, to bulimia - by reaching out to help others who are
struggling. Doris will introduce us to information from her new
educational curriculum about how Health At Every Size (HAES) and Intuitive Eating
can help us all learn to "Savor Ourselves". With Doris, we will
experience the empowerment that comes from rejecting the media's
messages about body shape and size and embracing our own unique beauty.
 To RSVP, simply send us an email with "RSVP for Doris" in the subject line to mc@key-to-life.com
To view the event flyer click HERE
Click HERE To listen to past podcasts
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Hey Ed! You are not welcome inside the "Circle of Hope"!
Did you know that MentorCONNECT has its own "Ed Armor"? Designed by MentorCONNECT founder Shannon, the MC "Circle of Hope" Pendant (which appears alongside the M entorCONNECT logo) reminds ALL of us that the relationships we have here with each other really DO replace eating disorders! The
best news of all is that, whether you order MC Ed Armor for yourself or
to show your support for a friend who is struggling, you will also be
giving back to your community! 100% of sales proceeds go back to MentorCONNECT to help with overhead, expenses, and new programs (like our upcoming retreat!)
To order MC Ed Armor, just click HERE |
 Beating ANA Study Group
28 Days
If we have been in recovery for more than about two and a half minutes, we have probably already heard the phrase "one day at a time".
The
first time I heard that phrase, I felt relief. The second time I heard
it, I felt a bit confused. The third (and pretty much every time
thereafter) I just felt irritated. I remember thinking to myself, like
Sandra Bullock's character Gwen in the movie "28 Days", "One day at a
time - what is that? Like two or three days at a time is an option?"
One day at a time, like it or not, is all we get.
It is all we can handle, if we are being honest. The relationship we've
had with our eating disorder, while toxic and lethal, has been an
important one. At one point in time, we may have even believed that "Ed" was our best friend.
And
what we used to cherish we now must grieve before we can let it go.
Where are you in allowing the five-stage grief process of letting go of
Ed to unfold one day at a time - denial, anger, bargaining, depression,
acceptance, over and over and over again until you can fully honor your
feelings, and then finally let them go?
Post your insights and ideas HERE
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Mark Your Calendar for the First Quarter of our Exciting 2010 MentorCONNECT Teleconference Series!
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Learn from the past, then get the hell out of there.
Learn from failure and it becomes success.*
We
spend far too much time stuck in the past, reviewing over and over and
over and over again the mistakes and failures that we have no power to
change. As a friend of mine often reminds me: there is such a thing as
time travel, but it only moves in one direction --- forward. This
nutshell is really an application of the Serenity Prayer. We can't change the past, but we can learn from it.
Learning the lessons experience wants to teach us, and applying those
lessons to today - now that is an efficient use of our time and energy.
 Thom
Rutledge is a noted speaker/trainer, workshop facilitator, author of
"Simple Truth" and "Embracing Fear", and co-author (with Jenni
Schaefer) of "Life Without Ed". Thom is also the co-coordinator of the
monthly MentorCONNECT Teleconference Series. For more information about
Thom, visit him at www.nutshellwisdom.com
*copyright Thom Rutledge, all rights reserved
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Support Groups Community-Wide Homework
 Just a reminder that homework is posted each week after our support group meetings.
You are warmly invited to join in the continuing discussions by visiting the Groups page HERE
Want to join in
the Monday & Thursday Night e-chats but aren't sure where to go,
how to log in, and where to find the week's song lyrics? Click HERE for a login refresher!
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Have you missed a podcast?
Now, catch Thom
Carolyn & Sara
Jenni
Jessica
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Contact your MC Leadership Team
Have a question about the Mentoring Moment?
andrea@key-to-life.com
Have a question about the Forums?
jeanette@key-to-life.com
Want to make a mentoring match?
cheryl@key-to-life.com
Have questions about contributing to MC?
cheryl@key-to-life.com
Want to rsvp for an upcoming teleconference?
mc@key-to-life.com
Want to share your experience of MC?
mc@key-to-life.com
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Join us Monday & Thursday Nights on Chat!
Monday night,
8-9pm central time
Thursday night,
8-9pm central time
The chat room will be open from 7pm-10pm (Central time) to give us all time to reconnect before and after chat!
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Match with a Personal Recovery Mentor in Three EZ Steps!
MentorCONNECT is proud to be the first organization of its kind to offer one-on-one mentoring matchups!
If you would like to take advantage of your membership benefit to match with one of our caring volunteer mentors, here is how:
1. ORDER "Beating Ana" from your local library or bookseller
2. Complete the "Beating Ana Chapter One" exercise
3. EMAIL your answer to Jeanette
It really is that easy!
Why do we ask you to read 30 pages of a book before beginning a mentoring partnership?
Simply because once you understand the Mentor Model we use here on MentorCONNECT, you will be both knowledgeable AND fired up to make the most of your chance to be mentored!
Our mentors are standing by, on call to support you and reassure you that YES, recovery really IS possible for YOU too!
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MentorCONNECT is grateful for the support of its Sponsoring Care Partners:
Remuda Ranch Programs for Eating Disorders
Tapestry: A Residential Treatment Center for Women with Eating Disorders
You Are Not Alone
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MM Archives: To access the full Mentoring Moment Archives, click HERE
NOTE: Participation in MentorCONNECT
is NOT meant to replace the supervision and care of a qualified medical
professional, and should never be construed as such. Shannon Cutts, the
MentorCONNECT Leadership Team and Key to Life
can NOT be held liable for any activities undertaken as a part or
result of receiving or participating in these online communities. If
you have a medical question, please consult your healthcare
professional.
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