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Good morning, warriors. I'm your

day. Keep your head up marching on. Don't understand in your way.

Hello there, Warrior. I'm your host, Jessica Flint. I'm the founder and CEO of Recovery Warriors, a wisdom sharing platform for all people impacted by an eating disorder. Recovery Warriors provides resources and support to heal your relationship to food, body, mind, and soul. I believe recovery is not only

possible, but it is worth it. That is why Recovery Strong exists to help you see and connect to

the potential that lies within you to find freedom from an eating disorder. Today Today I just want to geek out on storytelling.

Well, a specific aspect of storytelling, and that is looking at the story arc.

And why I want to focus on this area is because I want you to kind of step into this idea that your life is a story. It is you.

You are the protagonist in your life story. And I want to do a short introduction to this idea

of a story arc that goes so well into eating disorder recovery and share one of my all-time

favorite poems that really just highlights this idea.

You know, and as we embark in a new year, you can kind of think like, well, what are you

turning the page towards now?

What do you want to really write into this year?

Because you do have that power to change things.

We all do.

And that's why we love stories, because they change.

Imagine reading a story that just stays the same the whole time. It would be so boring.

As much as we are creatures of comfort and we can be like, I don't want to change. I want it to stay the

same. We ultimately do want to see change. We want to see evolution. We want to see us get past our blockages and the things that hold us back most in life.

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