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[![joy stumbling block business 19148 640](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/joy_stumbling_block_business-19148_640.jpg)](https://eatingdisorderrecovery.net/images/joy_stumbling_block_business-19148_640.jpg)*Someone may call you for old behaviors. You may call (or want to) so you can return to your old ways. Or you'll feel both internally.*

On your path to joy, be prepared for pushback. You are making time for reading, exploring, taking classes, attending seminars and concerts, writing and communicating with new people. You have disrupted the pattern of what was your ordinary day.

Others in your life may want to interrupt your set times for reading, walking, writing or visiting places in the community. You will need to defend your boundaries.

You may be the one who wants to postpone or cut short your explorations and new activities to revert to your old patterns. Moving on to your new choices is sometimes fun and sometimes frightening.

Your feelings of isolation, dullness, bewilderment, and fatigue can rise at any time. When they do, old choices rise up strong.