What's Right In The World?

About four weeks ago, we experienced our 2nd annual National Eating Disorders Conference for Professionals at the Center for Change. It was a memorable and uplifting experience for all. We express gratitude for the generous and talented presenters, the friendly and engaging participants, and for the opportunity to teach, learn, and build relationships with many wonderful people. We are grateful for such amazing support for our conference, and for a clear reminder of the many friends we have been blessed with - both as a Center, and as individuals.

The blessing of good friends is something which I know a bit about. I have been graced with friendship and kindness in my professional life, especially since my friends and I opened our Center 16 years ago. Clients, families, colleagues, mentors, and others have freely given their trust, their friendship, their support, and a certain amount of community and unity, as we all have strived to battle these eating disorder illnesses, and to help our clients reclaim their lives, their dreams, and even personal peace and serenity.

We live in a world of adventure, beauty, and wonder. We live in a world with bright, capable, creative, and good hearted people who are striving to live good lives, and making every effort to influence the collective world, or an individual soul for the better. Some of the best of those people are suffering with illness and in our care, some are living in the sunlight of recovery, and some are providing treatment, and care, and hope to the suffering. I am proud to be a small part of this worthy cause, and I am grateful for the opportunity.

May we have the perspective of abundance, may we see the silver lining in every cloud, may we learn from the adversity which comes our way, may we make something better of the situations in which we are involved, may we give others good intent - for they most often have it, and may we learn to laugh at ourselves in a respectful and playful way, rather than looking for our own weakness with consequent judgment and self-punishment. May we give and receive good will, may we have high hopes for a future day, and find hope in this moment - even today.

One of our prolific mentors and teachers was the late Victor Frankl, who packaged great wisdom in a beautifully written message of great truth which goes something like this: "The last of all human freedoms is the will for meaning, the ability to choose perspective, and the ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." Our perspective, our attitude, our happiness is a choice. Let's choose to see and enjoy what's right with the world, what's good in the world, and what is good in the souls of our fellow pilgrims in this incredible journey of mortality.

Thanks again for your friendship and support,
Dr. B

(Michael E. Berrett, PhD, is a Licensed Psychologist, as well as CEO and Co-founder of Center for Change in Orem, UT.)

Center for Change is a place of hope and healing that is committed to helping women and adolescent girls break free and fully recover from their eating disorders. The Center uses a multi-disciplinary approach with specialized and intensive treatment for eating disorders under the care of a supportive and experienced staff. The Center offers a full continuum of care with inpatient, residential treatment, day & evening programs, and outpatient services. Insurance is accepted and multiple funding options are available. Center for Change is a certified TRICARE Provider and we are honored to support our troops and their families.