Welcome to the very first edition of MentorCONNECT's weekly "Mentoring Moment".

Each week we will present a short tip, idea, or thought designed to help you make the most of your mentoring matchup.

Whether you are a mentee, a mentor, both, or here for general support only, you will be sure to gain something from each Mentoring Moment.

We are also very interested in receiving your questions and ideas - is something you are doing really working well in your mentoring match that you would like to share with the community? Do you have a question about mentoring? Let us know, and we will post our answers to your questions here!

Mentoring "Thought for the Week"

The wise and effective mentor will first and always be a mentee as well.

Right now, take a moment and think of one person who has literally changed your life for the better - just for the knowing of them.

Then think of what your life would be like today if you had met that person and refused to allow them to offer you their support when you needed it most.

No matter where you are in your recovery today - whether you are well into recovered life, just beginning your recovery journey, or somewhere in between, you are never too ill to give support to someone else, and you are never too healthy to still need support yourself.

We serve others best when we also - simultaneously - allow ourselves to be served.

We need each other. We can't do this thing called "recovery", this thing called "life", without each other. Relationships really do replace eating disorders.

So this week as you talk with your mentor or mentee, remember that there is a balance on the continuum between receiving and giving where both our need to give, and our need to receive, can be amply fulfilled.