I met!!!! & THANKS!

I met DARLA!!!!! WOOT WOOT!!  I met Nicole!!  WOOT WOOT!!!   Thanks to those who came to North Branch coffee!  So good to meet and see again so many great and wonderful and shrinking and gorgeous ladies!!!  I love ya all! Part 2 is in the making so I hope to see ya all back! Love and HUGS!

Thank you Sandie for setting this up....I'm looking forward to the one on Boundaries. Hugs, Debi

Sandie you are so sweet. Thank you for putting this together. What a wonderful time. Mary P. is one awesome lady!!

I will call soon about the pics...thanks ...you are the best!! Hugs, connie d

And I got to meet SANDIE!!!   WOWOWOWWW!!!  You are just incredible, girl - I need to get myself to a coffee WITHOUT a speaker, so I can actually have some time to just chat with YOU!!  But today's coffee was really good, really got me thinking about some things my family deals with, and how I might be able to help them help themselves. Sandie, you are gorgeous - even more beautiful than your pictures here!  Hard to believe you ever had a weight problem.  Man...  and your girls are just precious!  (perhaps I should use the word "daughters"???   )  I hope they weren't flying too high after those ginormous cookies!!! LOVE YOU LOTS, SANDIE!!! 

Sandie, it was so wonderful meeting you and all of the other women there!  I would have to agree w/Darla that your picture does you no justice!  I really enjoyed listening to Mary she said a lot that really resonated with how I used to live my life and am still working on changing. I am very interested in the talk on boundaries.   Thanks again for setting this up it was great I only wish I could have stayed longer, but maybe next time when I don't have to hurry up to Hinckley to help split & stack wood!

I just wanted to post that i agree with the other ladies about out speaker.  It was like she had been watching me all my life, and knew where I had been and what is happening to me.  I did experience joy, and anger, and sadness during her talk, because I felt validated, victimized, empowered, and hopeful.  I have been making so many changes to how I approach my own history, and present, and plans for the future, and it was just so enlightening to know that I am not alone, that I am on the right track, and that there is somebody out there who understands and wants to help me with my specific issues.  Now, this is not to say that i don't appreciate everything that you all do, this is just  different.  I can't even describe here all the feelings and thoughts this brought out of me.  I am so looking forward to the next time Mary can come and talk with us again.  I really do encourage anybody who is interested in their own personal growth to attend one of her lessons.    And I will say this for any who may be skeptical, it wasn't like sitting in church at all, and it's not at all airy-fairy.  

Christi, I completely agree with everything you said.  It was like she had taken the last 28 years of my life and laid it all out.  I am so grateful for the experience to meet her and I am hoping to be able to see her again!  It is nice to know that we aren't in this battle towards a healthier self alone!