About a month into counseling and Jeff’s deployment, my girls and I joined my family to visit my sister, Brittany, who had recently move to Arkansas. Her job as a college tutor somehow landed her living with the Duggars from “19 And Counting.” While I was excited and anxious to see my sister in her new setting,… Read More Aubrey’s Story #16: Bulimia and the Duggars
As I began jotting down what I ate in my food journal, I found myself writing down the same five foods: cashews, raisins, popcorn, protein bars, and apples. They were my safe foods. I shifted uncomfortably that first time my counselor looked at this list. I knew it shouted major food phobias, especially in the… Read More Aubrey’s Story #15: Bulimia and Counseling Part 2
I lay awake, an hour or two past midnight, soaking in the reality that my husband was sleeping there, right beside me. Soon he would not. It was a matter of days before Jeff deployed to Iraq. Big tears slipped rapidly down my cheeks as I lay there thinking of all that was to come… Read More Aubrey’s Story #14: Bulimia and Counseling Part 1
I was so thankful my mom was able to arrive at Fort Bragg, NC just a couple days before I gave birth to Haddie. Though I had never brought up the topic of bulimia with my mom directly, I knew she knew, and I was ready and waiting for a good time to talk to… Read More Aubrey’s Story #13: Bulimia and Haddie’s Birth
Happy Easter, friends!!! I could not put up today’s post without shouting out “Christ is risen!” May your Easter be filled with adoration for the One who has finished our race perfectly! It is finished. Our race has been won. And so we run, not as those without hope, but as those who are more… Read More Aubrey’s Story #12: Bulimia and Sheep
Six weeks after Jeff left for Haiti, Aletheia and I found ourselves waiting with the other families in the Squadron (1-73 CAV, 82nd ABN), excitedly looking for Jeff to appear through the door. Suddenly, he was standing there, tan and handsome, holding Aletheia and me. Burying my head in his uniform, I desperately wanted to… Read More Aubrey’s Story #11: Haiti and Chaplains’ Wives
Jeff’s first assignment was with the 82nd Airborne Division (2nd Brigade, 1-73 CAV) stationed at Ft. Bragg, NC. With the miscarriage still fresh in our minds, we set up home. New state. New home. New job. New start. We lived in a newly built army housing neighborhood. We were the first to live in our… Read More Aubrey’s Story #10: Haiti Deployment & the Walking Dead (Bulimic)
When our daughter was about nine months old, my husband and I drove out to Ft. Jackson, SC for Chaplain’s School, and so our Army adventure began. As we entered our little apartment where we would live for the next three months, I saw my chance at a new beginning. This kitchen would never see… Read More Aubrey’s Story #9: Bulimia and Miscarriage, Early Army Days
If anything can motivate me to stop, it is my new baby girl. I thought it simply boiled down to finding the “perfect motivator,” and I assumed I held my motivation in my arms. As I continually sought to find my motivation apart from Christ, I found myself on a treadmill, whose speed, for a… Read More Aubrey’s Story #8: Bulimia and the Treadmill
There are dark days here. I pray the darkness will make the light all the brighter. The question for me is not, “Why are you sharing your struggles?!” But rather, “Why would you hide just how far God’s grace reaches?!” The second year of bulimia brought a significant change in my life. For the first… Read More Aubrey’s Story #7, Bulimic and Pregnant
Every Square Inch Fitness 