Happy 1st Anniversary!
"Women Struggling with Food"
April, 2009
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 my 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 Words of Faith, Hope and Love from all around the World in 2008
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..."
Hannah
"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."
Belinda
"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."
Sarah
"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 Heleen'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!"
Joyce
Please email me if you have a testimony of God working in your life that
you would like me to add here!
Lots of love, Heleen
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