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Welcome to Finding The Gift!™
Welcome and may your gifts be many! (Hint: they already are.) Finding the Gift is about discovering what is already wonderful, inside us and around us. Hello! My name is Angela Howell and I've been on a personal journey to Finding the Gift™ in my own life since I was a teenager ... a LONG time! I'm still on the journey and my hope is to connect with you by [...]
Becoming A Human (Who Is) Being
I have struggled with low self-esteem most of my life and lived as a human doing, not a human being, trying to make up for what I felt was lacking. True or not, I grew up feeling like I could never be good enough to please my parents or warrant enough of their love and attention. I’ve spent the majority of my life exploring self-development and overcoming a very lonely, [...]
NEDA Walk Nashville 2015
NEDA Walk Nashville was a HUGE success!! Today was a great day to walk for Eating Disorders Awareness in Nashville on behalf of the Eating Disorders Coalition of Tennessee (EDCT) and the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA). The weather was perfect and we had a lot of great vendors who came out to support the event. I had the privilege of introducing performer Rachel Hale, a very talented singer/songwriter from [...]
My Story is Featured in the Tennessean!
Check this out! Wow- I am so grateful! This was posted online Friday and will print in the Gallatin and Hendersonville papers this Wednesday. http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/hendersonville/2015/04/02/hendersonville-author-raises-awareness-eating-disorders/70857202/ Do you know of anyone who has suffered from an eating disorder or had a family member who suffered? Eating disorders are a tough, lonely disease and once the recovery process begins, it takes an average of seven, hard years to maybe begin to experience [...]
Planting Seeds Now For Harvest Later
Today I had the privilege of speaking as a volunteer for the Eating Disorders Coalition of Tennessee (www.edct.net) with two high school classes to promote eating disorders awareness and to share my personal story of recovery from anorexia/bulimia. I have to be honest, high school kids are a tough audience! Peer pressure is so great that before any personal expression can actually be verbalized in class, a student's thoughts have [...]
Never Given More Than We Can Handle Includes Our Potential
©findingthegift.com We have all heard the phrase, “We are never given more than we can handle.” I have always applied that to difficult situations and tough times, but I recently heard the idea that it's also true for our talents, our potential, and thus, our destinies. In Nelson Mandela's famous inaugural speech, he quoted Marianne Williamson by saying, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our [...]
My Eating Disorder Saved My Life. Please Help Me Save Others!
Many of you may already know I suffered a 10-year battle with anorexia and bulimia as a teenager and young adult. There weren't any Eating Disorder Awareness Programs back then, and I kept my behavior a secret for years until I learned it was a disease. Finding help not only saved me from dying, but it also put me on a spiritual recovery path to really live and to heal [...]
Choices: Setting Your Life’s Thermostat
Sometimes just moving the dial a little can create a life that feels a lot more comfortable. Winter is upon us! It may be 30° outside and raining, but just on the other side of windows and walls, I am toasty and warm inside. Isn't central heat and air amazing?! I set the dial to create the environment of my choice. Is life really that different? We have all made [...]
Patience Learned from a Feather
Patience is a virtue and never more needed when chasing a feather! Yesterday while cleaning, I noticed a random, red feather had somehow landed on my finger. Without thinking, I threw it up in the air to shake it off me. When I realized I would have to pick it up again to throw it away, I lunged for it and missed. Every time I grabbed for it, the feather [...]
Grateful, Even For the Toothaches
The profound metaphor of a toothache: Monday- No toothache Tuesday- Suddenly a tooth begins to ache. It's slightly bothersome, but we carry on. Wednesday- The toothache is unbearable. It's all we can think about. We feel we would be “so happy” if our toothache was gone. The following Monday- We've been to the dentist and our toothache is gone. We are “so happy!” The following Wednesday- Our toothache is long [...]
