Tara, Vermont

“My first appointment with Rhonda was May 3, 2005 and I have never been so grateful to anyone or anything in my whole life. Before I saw Rhonda, I was a mess. I used to go into a binging and purging cycle on Rum and cokes and food on a nightly basis. This went on for years. For the last year and a half, I was bulimic throughout the day as well. I was in a living hell. I desperately wanted help – I knew there was no way out on my own – it was a continuing downward spiral leading God knows where.

I prayed and prayed for help; my biggest fear was to be without food and alcohol and still be suffering so badly. I just didn’t have the energy or anything left in me to deal with the pain, or even fathom an exhausting battle with alcohol and an eating disorder. From my frustrating and disappointing experiences with M.D.’s for heath issues, I didn’t trust a ‘network of psychotherapists’ to address and help me with heal my disorders. There was too much to my whole tangled web of problems. I didn’t have the energy to give it everything I had and to not be in the hands of people who were capable of helping me. I would have been left too depleted, as I was on my last thread as it was.

In addition, I had many food sensitivities that tied into my eating disorder – many foods really affected me negatively. I had seen dieticians and GI specialists in the past that were of no help. What I prayed for was the help I needed that would really work, and that wouldn’t be a battle mentally and physically.

In the summer of 2004 I looked into whatever treatment I could find on-line. When I found Rhonda’s site, I was ready to give it a try. My husband would not buy the fact that it would work. Months passes, and in the Spring we tried to get our insurance company to cover the in-patient treatment, but the only one they would cover was a 30-day detox treatment facility. There was no way I was going to such a cold institutional setting. I could not understand how someone begging God for help on a regular basis could have her prayers gone unanswered.

Shortly thereafter, we decided to go to Rhonda. I feel so blessed just thinking of how far I’ve come in year. I truly feel my prayers have been answered; my experience was everything that I had asked for and then some. I have no desire to drink or binge or purge. Yeah, sometimes life is hard – but who said it would be easy? But at least these barriers have been removed and I can get on with my life.

I am no longer in ‘purgatory’. I feel so much stronger mentally and physically, and I am excited about what life brings my way. I am able to experience true happiness (not all the time, of course), but it gets better by the day. Every night when I go to sleep, I thank God and whoever else helped guide me to Rhonda. It has been truly a blessing. When I am in Rhonda’s presence, there is such a warm feeling in my heart and knowingness that every- thing is going to be alright.

I wish that everyone who is suffering from addictions would have the opportunity for this healing. It makes me sad to think of how many people are out there suffering and I wish they would find their way to Rhonda.

Not a day goes by that I don’t think of how grateful I am to Rhonda and Barry. I am also grateful for God’s ‘unanswered prayers’, as shortly thereafter I was brought to where I belonged.

Rhonda and Barry, thank you, thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
Blessings to you both,”