Happy 1st Anniversary!
 "Women Struggling with Food"

I can not believe that one year has passed since my husband and I ventured out on this very exciting yet very difficult journey of bringing this website and the 12 Week Program to life "online". I am so grateful to God for His goodness, because I know that without His help, leading and counsel I could never have done anything like this. God also used my wonderful husband to keep pushing me to see it through in spite of many late nights, sick kids and other responsibilities, and I am so blessed to have him by my side. You can read my whole story of getting this website up and running on our Blog.

I thought this would be an appropriate time to put some of the words of encouragement and testimonies of victory that I received from you during the past year on the site. We have ladies that joined this program from around the globe, and I am in total awe of God's goodness! The internet sure made our world much smaller.

Your Testimonials of Faith, Hope and Love from all around the World

Thank you so much for all your wonderful and encouraging words. It really kept me going when I felt like giving up at times. Our God is so faithful, and I can not take credit for any of the wonderful things He has done in your lives, however, I am so glad and feel so privileged to be part of the "miracle ride"!



**Please note that I used fake names in order to protect your identity and privacy. 

"Thank you so much, Heleen!!! I have been on it for some time now and have been in tears (good tears). It amazes me of how much of yourself you poured into this program to help people like myself and for such a small price!!! I can tell that it's DEFINITELY NOT money you are interested in, but rather seeing women being set free!!! I can never thank you (and especially God) enough for this gift. I already told my prayer partner who also struggles with food (not bulimia) and she's going to take a look at the website. I believe God is doing infinitely more than we could ever imagine....thank you, thank you, thank you!!!"
Julie

"As a word of encouragement to you, I want to commend you for a few things. First of all, throughout your online study, I am struck over and over again by your sincerity. The daily recordings of you talking mean so much more because it is clear that you are speaking from your heart (and not just from words off a page). One really gets the sense that they are not walking through this alone. If that was your intent of this ministry, believe me, you have been successful at achieving this! For a sin as shameful as an eating disorder that absolutely leads to excessive alienation and aloneness, the fact that you are walking with us each day is HUGE!
 
Secondly, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking the time to type up and then post your entire 40 day journal. I literally spent almost my entire Sunday (yesterday) reading it and I am not exaggerating when I say that I think I underlined 75% of it because I could not get over how EVERYTHING you were saying was like coming from my experience! I was brought to tears numerous times mostly because of the relief I felt knowing that I am not alone in the crazy things I have experienced with this food addiction. It took a lot of guts for you to essentially post your heart on the internet like that but TRUST me when I say that that was one of the greatest gifts you could have given to this community. I am so grateful for your ministry.
 
Heleen, thank you for being the woman that you were and are and that you stuck it out, and fought the enemy and fell, but bounced back, strove with all your heart to know the Lord, but most of all was obedient to His call for you to use your experience to bless and help others. I speak on behalf of ALL of us who suffer from this sickness of eating disorders, THANK YOU!!!!
 
I feel very hopeful about all of this..."
Anna

"Heleen, I got your email about how I am doing. I bought this course about five months ago. I want to thank you for writing this. I was really one of the ladies you talk about that wanted to have everything change in 12 weeks or nothing... so when I didn't see any weight loss around week 8 I just gave up. My sister told me about a new herbal pill on the market that take you apetite away and I got some. I lost some pounds and felt better, but then after a month I didn't loose anymore and I became scared and anxious. I started eating and thowing up again and I was so confused. But then I remembered that you talked about the dangerous methods and to lay it down. I went back to your progrma and me and a friend start to do it together. For the first time I feel as if I am really giving up the dangerous methods and learning to trust god. Thank you for everything because it has now been 3 months that i didn't throw up and I am going through you course again and listen to the videos every day. god bless you."
Sally

"I am encouraged that I'm not the only one that feels the way I do. Reading your journal entries was like someone wrote it exactly about me. I have a hard time surrendering and up until you explained it I had know idea how. Thank you for putting this course out there for those of us with eating disorders it's a struggle but with God on our side it's more bearable. I do want to be free from this. It has abused me in one way or another for almost 18 years and I'm tired. But you're right it's scary to let go. Satan has made me believe that my eating disorder is who I am, it has become I'm identity. I am looking forward to one days seeing myself the way God sees me and actually loving myself. I'm looking forward to the day when that awful emptiness deep down in my soul is gone and I am truly happy and at peace. I understand that it won' t happen over night and that it will take a lot of work on my part but for the first time I can see that their is hope and I'm thankful that God hasn't giving up on me yet.

Thanks again for this course."
Mandy

"What I love about your program, however, is hard to explain in words, but let me try! First, your honest heart and your gentle voice (something rare these days). Secondly, (and this is where it's hard to explain)... you know how someone can say the same thing to you as someone else, but has a different way of doing so? That is what I find with your program...I track with you wonderfully (with that one exception), and it hits me in a whole new way...it causes me to look at something in a way I never looked before. I am not afraid to have God search my heart anymore...I want HIM to!!! I don't feel that your words condemn me, Heleen, or that they are watered down in any way...they just resonate with the deepest part of my spirit."
Julie

 
"I am not where I want to be with all of this, but after going back and back to your course (for 7 months now) I have finally see God break the bond of addiction in my body. I can now walk into stores without thinking about buying food. I dont' have this fear when I go to costco that I will want to eat all the yummy things they put out. I just don't have the draw to those things anymore. I know this seems small but to me this is a very big thing. I have been a people pleaser like you and I had to build up my strenght to stop pleaseing people and say no. My pastor's wife helped me a lot with that too, and I think this is part of why I now don't care about binging on food anymore. Thank you."
Emily

My favorite! Thank you Jesus!

"I am so grateful for Haleen's program. I'm on week 3 and getting so much out of it. And yes, I have accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior!
Thank you, and God bless you!"
Anna

Please email me if you have a testimony that you would like me to add here!Lots of love, Heleen