My Nonprofit Reviews

I first met Constance and learned about Finding Balance in 2003. In 2005, during the middle of my graduate work, Constance held a 12-week small group pilot program. For the first time after 19 years of food, weight, self-esteem and body image struggles, my pain was validated. It even had a name. And with that name came hope of getting well and reassurance that I'm not alone. Finding Balance changed everything. Now, ten years later, I am a competent thriving Physician Assistant in a psychiatric practice offering the same validation, hope, and reassurance to those struggling with illnesses ranging from depression to schizophrenia, from ADHD to panic attacks, from victims of rape to alcoholics, and even some with food and weight issues. And the interesting part, no matter the psychiatric diagnosis, roughly 80% of my patients rate their appearance as a moderate to severe issue for them. Constance was right, God won't-and hasn't-wasted my pain. Finding Balance is crucial to our society in breaking unhealthy social norms. I am proof that helping just one person can have an exponential impact in ways never imagined. And I couldn't be more greatful.

Finding Balance's (Fb) primary goal is to let people who are controlled and defined by their unhealthy relationship with food and body image that there is hope out there. There is this amazing and marvelous God who wants to restore the broken and the captive. When I started the Fb small group I thought my only chance at the perfect body was an all out eating disorder. I learned that I was wrong. The perfect body wasn't going to bring the perfect life that I was hoping for. I was crushed and broken. And what Fb did was walk along side me and tell me that I don't have to fight this battle alone. They told me that all this pain I was overwhelmed with was something that God wouldn't waste but in fact use for His glory. God would give my pain purpose. So instead of dropping out of graduate school then, I am now a full-time healthcare provider that gets to speak truth in the lives of the patients that I see day to day. You know, often it's said that you can't keep your recovery unless you give it away. Fb has come to hold such a valuable and special place in my heart that I financially contribute to their cause (altough it doesn't seem like much) and I get to bring encouragement to others who struggle through the FB blog. Fb helped launch my recovery, and the joy that I have today is because of them.

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