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Today sis, let's time travel! I want to take you into the grocery store with me during my recovery. On this particular trip (actually most every trip to the store), I would stand in the peanut butter aisle...yes, for 20 minutes—staring at jars, reading labels, comparing calories. And I was exhausted with my own mess.

Peanut butter was a total fear food. I'd tell people "I didn't like it" when in fact, I grew up on PB&J sandwiches and adored the taste pre-ED. But during ED, I just didn't trust myself around it.

This day however, I got so tired of my usual ED pattern that I assigned myself a task: walk in, choose a jar, take it home, and make something with it.

That one decision changed everything.

You are one decision away from a completely different life. And it starts with giving yourself permission.

In today's podcast episode you'll discover:

• How one grocery store decision became my recovery breakthrough
• Why every decision is actually an act of permission
• The connection between indecision and staying stuck
• How to pre-decide your way to freedom
• What permissions you might be withholding from yourself
• Why peanut butter now reminds me of freedom
• The ripple effect one brave choice creates

You are one decision away from a completely different life. Not ten decisions. Not a perfect plan. Not waiting until you feel ready.

That day, I wasn't any less scared of peanut butter than before. But I decided I was the boss of me. I got to decide how I wanted to be defined. And I no longer wanted to be scared of peanut butter.

Every decision is actually an act of permission. When I decided to buy that peanut butter, I gave myself permission to:

• Trust myself around a fear food
• Stop analyzing and start choosing
• Act differently than I had been acting
• Take up space in my own life

Standing in that aisle for 20 minutes wasn't really about comparing labels. It was about avoiding the decision entirely.

As long as I was analyzing, I didn't have to choose. As long as I was researching, I didn't have to act. As long as I was stuck in indecision, I didn't have to face my fear.

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