For me, knowing I was killing myself. For Dee, being weighed on the freight scale. For Jody, breaking his grandmother’s chair. For Sue, weighing 74 pounds. For Chrissy, waking in the hospital alive anyway. For Vanna, not finding slacks she […]
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Words to Soothe
Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful. ~ Inga Muscio What kind of work do you want your words to do? Would you ever task your words to hurt? to demean? […]
Continue reading »Fixing My Recovery
I pray for willingness to get on with the twelve steps of recovery. That is the only way I know to replace my fears and insecurities with confidence and courage. When I am willing, there is no void and all […]
Continue reading »At the End
We carefully work the Steps, One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight and Nine. Then Ten, Eleven and Twelve… continuing the first ten. But at the end of the Steps, we’re spreading the message, increasing the fellowship and newcomers […]
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They’re in order these Steps. To begin we figure out we’re powerless over food, our lives are unmanageable. In other words, we can’t. We move to God can, and we decide to let him. After that it falls into place, […]
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