I’ve eaten all my life, hungry or not. Food is more than nourishment of body but a comfort when afraid, a solace for insults suffered, a way to rejoice, a remedy to placate guilt when I act without thinking through […]
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The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonyous
It’s called the Big Book, classic aid for all who look to substitutes to guide their lives, as food or drink betray their user’s hopeless flailing far and wide. The truth resides in simple Steps set out in eight score […]
Continue reading »We Are Not a Glum Lot
The diet mentality made us all glum, defensive, angry. That’s what many of us expected here in the rooms of recovery. Imagine someone…a lot of someones learning what you did to hide your eating, to keep people from knowing you […]
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Step Four. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Fear often predominates as we begin Step Four. After all, we’e searching for Resentments, hurts we’ve nourished for decades, our part in starting lifelong feuds. Fear has a place. […]
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Selfishness — self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without […]
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