…it is not enough to want to be rid of the unpleasant side effects of my illness. I need to be willing to give up that which attracts me in the first place: the gratification, sedation or whatever other payoff […]
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Second Life
You have two lives. The second one begins when you realize you only have one. ~ Confucius It surely feels as though when you reach the rooms of Recovery as though you’ve failed miserably, can’t even do what everybody can…just […]
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Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? ~ Galatians 3:4 (NASB) We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and humiliation of even […]
Continue reading »On the Pentacle of Life
I descended into a horrific food rock bottom, which finally convinced me that compulsive overeating is a progressive, dangerous, and slow-killing disease of mind, body, and spirit. My slide was halted only by seeking help from fellow OA members and […]
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Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. […]
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