Off White Living

Definition (or one of them) of enough:

In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently

I AM ENOUGH
last night the burn of three days frustration poured out of me onto paper and also into my husband’s lap.   I was feeling inadequate, purposeless, and overwhelmed with what Off-White is meant to be.  Here it is week 6 since I’ve left the comfort of my full time job and I don’t have a thriving business yet….what’s my problem 😉  Coinciding with this frustration was the desire to eat my weight (and more) in apple fritters, white cake with thick white frosting and hearty oatmeal cookings.   Truly, I couldn’t stop fantasizing about being alone in a room full of treats.  This is my class sign to myself that I’ve tipped the sanity scale in the direction of going nowhere fast.

So, after lots of prayer, voracious scribbles on a notepad, and talks with my husband I came to realize that I’m trying too hard with Off-White.  I’m trying to make it be (in my mind) the answer to everything that everyone needs…..and it’s because I doubt my original purpose is enough.

What, ask you, was the original vision with Off-White.  Before I tell my secret, I must also share that this is also simply the very thing I want to do with my entire life: to carry the message that there is life after sugar for those, like me, who have been horribly handcuffed by the power of refined carbs.  That’s it.  It’s a desire not just to help the world, but to continue helping myself.

IT IS ENOUGH

My tendency is to always think I must do more than everybody else to be half as good as anybody else.  “What if my dream ends up not being good enough for the world”, I ask myself over and over again.  The net result of that question is a bee-line for the nearest bakery or a fantasy to do so.  Nothing like a little ‘not enough-ness’ to trigger all those feelings which activate sugar control centers in my brain to EAT and FORGET all the fears…..thank god I have enough recover to usually not listen, but that is why I need this blog, and this community -the pull to doubt myself, eat over it, or just feel crummy, is STRONG.

Recently I was listening to Dr. John Demartini and he said something interesting:

“If you have a burning desire to share something with the world, there are people in the world who have a burning desire to recieve it from you”.  I must trust this.  I must trust that whatever Off-White manifests into, whether it be a Fortune 500 company of products and tools to help people, or just a blog that I write for my own edification, I have a burning desire to carry this damn torch and to keep healing my body and my soul to become a better person (hopefully with less meltdowns).

So, enough from me today.  That’s it. This is what Off-White is, plain and simple.

PS: you are enough too – wherever you are and whomever you are.  This one doesn’t just apply to me !