When you think of your dreams as “what ifs,” you free them of any limitations. ~ Dean, Amy E. Morning Light: A Book of Meditations to Begin Your Day (Kindle Locations 2563-2564). Hazelden Publishing. Kindle Edition. Longing for what we thought […]
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Recovery Is…
Recovery is learning new responses, feeling and behaving in healthier ways. ~ Casey, Karen. Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women (Kindle Location 2039). Hazelden Publishing. Kindle Edition. Recovery is laying aside our crutch, learning we’re not in charge, […]
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Step 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to compulsive overeaters and to practice these principles in all our affairs. We practice these principles in all our affairs. But […]
Continue reading »Thanks Be to God
(After Psalm 136) Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. Thanks be to the God of our understanding. Give thanks for leading us to Recovery. Thanks be to the God of our understanding. Give thanks for the bottom, […]
Continue reading »Enjoyment of Just Being
This is not a program of searching after facts, but of looking within, attending to my spiritual needs. It is my spirituality which nurtures all that is uniquely me. The twelve steps open my heart, free my mind and release […]
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