Be calm. Others have been there, worked their way out. You won’t sink far past your midsection. Breathe deep, you’ll float. All that stuff you want to hold on to, your comforts, your respectability, your independence, toss it. It got […]
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it’s a Job
I’m not in charge. Normally in my life, that’s a way of saying I’m only marginally involved, watching from that periphery. But it’s different in the context of recovery, and EVERYTHING is in the context of recovery if I am […]
Continue reading »Teach Us To Pray
What do we say when we talk with God? We say whatever we feel like saying. ~ The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, p. 93 Lord, teach us to pray. Through centuries we’ve asked for the script. […]
Continue reading »The Giver of the Gift
It was only when I became aware of all the gifts I had received that I asked who the giver was. What a shocking realization: because the gifts were surely divine, then equally as surely, the giver must also have […]
Continue reading »I Want the Promises!
The Big Book promises before we’re halfway through Step Nine the Promises will come true! I want that! I want to be amazed! I want a new freedom and a new happiness. I don’t want to forget the past or […]
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